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

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

Boston Children’s, CVS, Geisinger, UC San Diego and Wellspan are among the 28 providers and payers promising their AI and machine learning models are geared to ensure healthcare outcomes that are "Fair, Appropriate, Valid, Effective and Safe."  

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.

Rock Health's Digital Health at the Turn of 2024 report found retailers as providers and data interoperability are scaling innovations in the sector, with lasting trajectories.

The tech giant revealed it created an LLM optimized for diagnostic reasoning with the ability to generate a differential diagnosis or assist clinicians in coming to a diagnosis.

Execs overwhelmingly cite genAI as having the most significant impact in healthcare this year, though others provide alternative takes on the years' events.