Dr. Michael Howell, chief clinical officer at Google, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss noteworthy events in 2023, the evolution of the company's LLM for healthcare, called Med-PaLM, and recommendations for regulators in constructing rules around the use of artificial intelligence in the sector.
MobiHealthNews: What are some of your big takeaways from 2023?
Dr. Michael Howell: For us,...
GE HealthCare is leveraging AI and data integration technologies to help tackle the rapidly increasing volume of patient data and working to optimize the application of these two tech tools in patient care in announcing 40 new innovations at RSNA23.
The company's central strategy is to integrate AI into its precision care framework, encompassing smart devices, targeted therapies, disease-...
AI-enabled imaging company Aidoc announced that it has secured $30 million in funding to develop a comprehensive AI imaging model and a new category of products based on that model.
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Aidoc offers radiologists tools to find and triage injuries and health conditions based on imaging results. It also provides coordination software for stroke and cardiovascular care, alerting relevant...
Royal Philips made several announcements at RSNA23 in Chicago yesterday, including the release of its next-generation AI-enabled advanced visualization workspace, its AI Manager and the BlueSeal MR Mobile Unit.
The company's visualization workspace for health systems is an AI-powered offering aimed at improving workflows using a single platform for multiple modalities. The company said it helps...
OpenAI's GPT-4 correctly diagnosed 52.7% of complex challenge cases, compared to 36% of medical journal readers, and outperformed 99.98% of simulated human readers, according to a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
The evaluation, conducted by researchers in Denmark, utilized GPT-4 to find diagnoses pertaining to 38 complex clinical case challenges with text information...
Direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers Health announced last week the launch of a new AI-enabled offering, MedMatch, which provides healthcare providers with anonymized data points generated from the company's customer database, aimed at helping mental health professionals identify suitable treatments for patients.
Dr. Patrick Carroll, chief medical officer at Hims & Hers,...
GE HealthCare announced it signed a $44 million contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop AI-enabled point-of-care ultrasound technology to help clinicians diagnose and treat lung pathologies and traumatic injuries to the head, chest and abdomen.
The medtech company will build off its existing ultrasound technology to develop an AI-powered...
Artificial intelligence could have profound implications for the field of oncology, concluded panelists speaking to journalist and moderator Katie Couric at the Constellation Forum 2023 at Northwell Health last week.
Dr. Richard Barakat, physician in chief and executive director of cancer services and research division at Northwell Health, noted that using AI in imaging will help radiologists and...
Tech giant Microsoft announced a long-term partnership with multistate healthcare system Mercy, which will utilize its Azure OpenAI Service to provide generative AI-assisted communication resources to patients and Mercy employees.
Microsoft's generative AI will be used to help patients understand lab results, schedule appointments and get answers to healthcare-related questions.
Mercy's...
GE HealthCare has secured a grant of more than $44 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to design AI-enabled applications and tools to help less experienced health professionals in low- and middle-income countries perform ultrasound scans that address fetal and maternal health and respiratory diseases.
Caption Health, founded in 2013 and acquired by GE HealthCare earlier this year,...
