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According to Tony DiGiorgio, chief architect at Symplr, the company has carefully embedded AI into its operational platform to cut administrative redundancy and enable nurses to minimize the number of systems they use each day.
What they offer is not a passive but an active clinical assistant that thinks beyond consultation notes.
Also, radiology reporting solutions provider Kailo Medical has acquired a clinician-founded genAI company.
Also, VUNO has obtained regulatory clearance in South Korea for its AI-based screening solution for kidney failure.
Trained on two million skin images, it can perform a range of clinical tasks unlike current models.
A global outage on Thursday disrupted a range of services, including several AI tools widely used in healthcare, such as Vertex AI, Dialogflow CX, Agent Assist and Contact Center AI.
Through working with global leaders, educating its members and developing digital transformation tools for health systems, Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, says HIMSS encourages the ethical and practical integration of AI in healthcare.
Molly Gibson, president of future science at Lila Sciences, describes the company's scientific superintelligence computer that analyzes various branches of science and creates hypotheses to help researchers find treatments or cure diseases.
When launching a healthcare AI project, Charles Worthington, CTO and Chief AI Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, recommends consulting with technology users to understand the problems they encounter and are trying to solve.
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While HIEs and TEFCA represent important interoperability advances, William Cavanaugh, Concord Technologies CEO, says health systems also need to access documents that contain important context for clinicians, rather than just data.