AI

At the HIMSS AI Conference in San Diego, panelists discussed the steps needed to strategically incorporate AI into the healthcare setting.

The American Medical Association uses “augmented intelligence,” not “artificial intelligence,” as the tech is meant to support, not replace, people, said Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, president of the AMA. Still, new regulatory paradigms are needed.

Healthcare organizations and technology companies must work together to ensure responsible and ethical AI use and to explore the true benefits of AI.

Updesh Dosanjh, practice leader of technology solutions for lQVIA, discusses ensuring fairness while using AI in clinical trials, the value of digital twins and the necessity of building and consistently adapting frameworks around AI use.  

Also, BetterSpace in India has received pre-seed funding to develop mobile mental health games.

Also, an ear health awareness app for indigenous children has received $1 million in funding from the Western Australia government.

The two models of MedLM are built on the tech giant's medical LLM Med-PaLM 2, with one designed for complex tasks and the other for scaling across various tasks.

Digital health stakeholders said that AI will be used next year to help ease administrative tasks for providers, improve clinical trial participation and increase transparency in healthcare.

Peter Shen, head of the digital and automation business at Siemens Healthineers, discusses the value of adopting a Hippocratic Oath and ethical standards for AI use in healthcare to ensure the safe creation and training of algorithms.