Artificial Intelligence

The mobile app could help save healthcare providers up to two hours of documentation time per day, at 90% accuracy, the company says.

The initiative also provides savings in the form of signing bonuses the hospital would have had to pay out for new staff. And it saved $7 million on travel nurses. Further, nurse satisfaction has improved significantly, its chief digital officer says.

Certain foundations need to be in place and there needs to be proactive change management for successful AI deployment. Prof David Lowe, clinical director for health innovation with the Scottish government, illustrates this with current use cases.

Its hypertension-focused centre with Shimadzu has reduced the turnaround time of testing for primary aldosteronism, which was previously done overseas.

It has released an AI-powered connected ambulatory patient monitoring system.

"This is a significant step in bridging technology and healthcare," said Dr. Dennis Charney, Dean of Icahn Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Health System's president for academic affairs. 

The IT leader discusses some of the innovative generative AI projects being piloted at the Boston health system and offers thoughts on how artificial intelligence should be regulated in healthcare – with guardrails around safety, efficacy and ethics.

When combined with Med-PaLM 2, providers and life sciences companies can obtain answers to questions about patient medical records and general medical knowledge.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs deployed AI models and predictive analytics to collect near real-time input on service delivery and gather actionable insights that helped it restore veterans’ trust in its services.

"A small but growing number of companies are forming strategic partnerships and bringing AI solutions to the fields of drug discovery, diagnostics, patient care and claims management," says a new report.