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Rami Karjian, head of the operating rooms business at LeanTaaS, says 17% of healthcare providers had to delay or cancel surgeries, which has a huge impact on patients, on the finances of a hospital and on caregivers who have to make up for the backlog.

Industry executives share their thoughts on the year's digital health developments - from an increased focus on women’s health to the rise of generative AI.

Tuva's CEO told MobiHealthNews that the company operates by "open-sourcing" the specialized knowledge needed to transform healthcare data and embedding that knowledge into an analytics-ready data model.

The company will fund and develop companies that focus on eight key areas in healthcare and create AI/genAI technologies that help advance those areas.

Andre Esteva, CEO and cofounder of Artera, a spin-out of Salesforce, relays how the company's AI tool looks at images of cancer tumors and recommends specific therapies to clinicians.

Eric Smith, chief digital officer at Memorial Hermann Health System, discusses the health systems' AI governance council and the use of AI in its day-to-day operations - including patient interactions and ambient listening. 

The company will use the funds to expand its commercial growth and clinical-evidence generation.

Pivoting from a healthcare administrator leader into chief health AI officer requires a substantial amount of health AI knowledge or a willingness to get that knowledge, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh. 

The chief AI officer should understand basic principles about AI, have a computing background and know the ultimate clinical use case, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh.

Sunny Virmani, group product manager of health AI at Google, discusses expanding access to AI models for diabetic retinopathy in India and Thailand, AI’s potential to transform healthcare and Google’s plans for AI in healthcare in 2025.