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A Carnegie Mellon University professor who specializes in responsible AI and generative AI discusses their importance in healthcare and combining the two – which can be tricky.

Health tech leaders discussed the diverse applications of 5G in healthcare during the HIMSS24 APAC conference in Seoul.

John Meiners, chief of mission-aligned businesses and healthcare solutions for the AHA, says it has "transformative capability" to improve knowledge and insights for cardiology research and clinical guidelines.

Dr. Gerald Lip of the U.K.'s NHS Grampian says that using AI algorithms has allowed a shrinking pool of radiologists to work more efficiently and provide test results in three days, instead of two weeks.

Large language models are "enabling a new level of patient empowerment" by helping people understand clinical notes, navigate insurance claims and much more, says Dr. Chethan Sarabu, AI and informatics strategist at OpenNotes.

"This is truly a revolutionary system, allowing us to take operative navigation to a new level, tracking implants and change in alignment in real time with no radiation with a relatively straightforward camera," says a top spine surgeon.

What does the next year in AI and genAI look like? How can and must AI help with the clinician shortage? Is fearmongering detrimental to AI's future? Greg Miller, vice president of business development at Carta Healthcare, has the answers.

A look at the ethics that provider organizations must consider when building out responsible models and equitable healthcare experiences, according to Oneil Rego and Ilana Golbin Blumenfeld, two experts at consulting giant PwC.

Also, Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand is set to launch a national programme ensuring cancer therapy adherence.

At the VA, automation is helping innovate troubleshooting, maintenance other med device management tasks, says Christopher Ahn, biomedical engineer supervisor at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Dayton, Ohio.