This week, Wheel rolled out a new AI-powered platform designed to provide patients with more holistic and seamless virtual care journeys. The platform, called Horizon, aims to help the startup’s customers rapidly scale virtual care programs to meet growing patient demand.
Despite misconceptions about its use, artificial intelligence (AI), through modalities such as machine learning models, is poised to enable companies to expedite the drug design process.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Lack of adequate translation and interpreting services isn’t just an inconvenience, it is dangerous and potentially life-threatening.
Hospitals need to start thinking about ways to build patients’ trust in generative AI in order for the healthcare industry to fully harness the technology’s potential. They can do this through methods like having transparent conversations, asking for patients’ consent to use the tools and training models on internal data, experts said.
The introduction of AI into solo or group practices can assist in completing administrative tasks, organizing information faster, and supporting effective, personalized care.
Abarca executives see plenty of potential for new technologies but note the need to strike the right balance between tech and human intervention.
The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.
Micky Tripathi, head of The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), thinks his office’s recent rule on AI transparency will spur greater adoption of AI tools in healthcare, as well as potentially drive higher quality AI-based products.
Click Therapeutics is acquiring the assets of Better Therapeutics two months after that digital therapeutics developer announced it would lay off all employees and shut down. Better’s main asset is AspyreRx, an FDA-authorized mobile app for type 2 diabetes.
If Medicare acts, the potential of AI-enabled technologies to improve healthcare outcomes for patients, regardless of their geographic location or socioeconomic status, will be closer to being fully realized.
Allegheny Health Network rolled out a large language model designed exclusively for use by its staff members. You can think of the tool as the health system’s own version of Chat-GPT, said Ashis Barad, AHN’s chief digital and information officer.
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
SmarterDx — an AI startup that provides clinical review and quality audits for medical claims — closed a $50 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to date to $71 million.
A Q&A with Naoki Okamura revealed that when it comes to cell and gene therapies, the CEO of Astellas Pharma believes risk-taking is a must for eventual success.
Mass General Brigham researchers conducted a study to learn more about the efficacy of large language models when used to draft responses to patient messages in the EHR. The results showed that these AI tools can do a good job at reducing physicians’ workloads and improving patient education — but also that these tools have limitations that require human oversight.
Kaiser Permanente is deploying Innovaccer’s healthcare AI platform and population health management tools to support better value-based care — starting with its Washington market and potentially expanding to new markets in the future.
Strategies for building the datasets needed for ACOs to take advantage of artificial intelligence, manage costs and improve outcomes for all