Digital Health

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.

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, 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.

The California-based company will use the funds to expand its Whole Body Twin Technology, aimed at preventing and reversing metabolic disease.

Davidi Vortman, CEO of UltraSight, discusses the company's AI-driven cardiac-imaging technology that helps providers quickly and efficiently triage patients and the ways the FDA-cleared system is used in the U.S. and globally.  

The company appointed a new chief financial officer, general counsel and chief technology officer.