Artificial Intelligence

Eduardo Iglesias, founder and CEO of VivaWell, talks about how VivaWell’s healthcare plans prioritizing illness prevention are being offered as an employee benefit by Latin American corporations and are already demonstrating ROI.

Large language model AI can help with the redistribution of routine tasks to nonphysician staff and directly to patients, getting patients to take an active role in their healthcare journey, and enhancing patient engagement and self-management, an expert says.

James McHugh, managing director at Berkeley Research Group, reveals quite positive feelings among provider organization executives on deploying artificial intelligence in the next three years.

The tech giant looks across the entire product development life cycle to ensure health equity in the AI models and tools it makes available to digital health companies, explains Dr. Ivor Horn, Google's chief health equity officer.  

The new lab will evaluate artificial intelligence in the health domain in a simulated real-world environment, help innovators refine their machine learning models and offer AI workforce development training.

The companies plan to reduce burnout and support diagnosis efficiency through new AI-powered applications.  

The center created the Charisma Virtual Social Coaching platform. To date, 90% of participants have reported gains in recognizing and managing emotions. The center now is adding generative AI capabilities.

As part of its Vision 2030 launch, the health system said that adopting new clinical and operational applications represents a "significant leap forward" in digital transformation.

The organization has released a draft framework to ensure that algorithms and artificial intelligence applications in healthcare perform responsibly, and in the service of better health for all. 

Clinical-trial research company Clario announces new hire, and AI-enabled surgical care organization Apella and data company Brillio announce additions to their board of directors.