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 HIMSS 2024 – What Unexpected Surprise will Happen in Healthcare in the Next 6 Months?
Healthcare IT Today - (Friday July 19, 2024)  Uncover your crystal balls and dust off your tarot cards because today we are looking into the future! At the past HIMSS Conference, we asked our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get in…  GE HealthCare Acquires Intelligent Ultrasound for $51M – M&A
HIT Consultant - (Friday July 19, 2024) What You Should Know: GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) announced an agreement to acquire the clinical artificial intelligence (AI) software business of Intelligent Ultrasound Group PLC (Intelligent Ultrasound) for approximately $51M. – The acquisition is… |
 West Tennessee Healthcare Invests in AI to Improve OR Efficiency, Utilization, & Surgical Growth
HIT Consultant - (Friday July 19, 2024) What You Should Know: – West Tennessee Healthcare, a not-for-profit healthcare system with 7 hospitals and multiple supporting clinics, treating more than 185,000 patients, today announced a partnership with Qventus, the leading provider of AI-based…  Global IT outage disrupting NHS caused by antivirus software
Digital Health - (Friday July 19, 2024) Dr Simon Wallace, chief clinical information officer at Microsoft said that a global outage affecting healthcare services had been caused by antivirus firm CrowdStrike. |
 Plymouth ‘living lab’ project pilots home-based tech for older adults
Digital Health - (Friday July 19, 2024) University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) is supporting Plymouth Community Homes (PCH) on a living lab project which will explore the impact of digital health technology in older residents’ homes.  AI Deepfakes Fuel Surge in Social Media Supplement Scams
HIT Consultant - (Friday July 19, 2024) What You Should Know: – Social media has become a breeding ground for deceptive health supplement ads, with AI-powered deepfakes taking these scams to a whole new level of danger. A recent study by… |
 Capita and Curam partner to improve access to care staff
Digital Health - (Friday July 19, 2024) Capita has partnered with home care staff marketplace Curam with the aim of improving access to affordable social care for local authorities and integrated care systems.  Large language models outperform mental and medical health care professionals in identifying obsessive-compulsive disorder
npj Digital Medicine - (Friday July 19, 2024) Despite the promising capacity of large language model (LLM)-powered chatbots to diagnose diseases, they have not been tested for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of LLMs in OCD using vignettes and… |
 Texas A&M Health and Burst IQ Partner to Optimize Clinical Genomics Research
HIT Consultant - (Friday July 19, 2024) What You Should Know: –Texas A&M Health and BurstIQ, a leader in advanced data management, today announced a partnership to leverage LifeGraph®, a graph-powered, end-to-end data management platform, to transform clinical research. -This collaboration…  6 Ways to Sharpen Your Skills As a Medical Professional
HIT Consultant - (Friday July 19, 2024) For medical professionals, maintaining high-quality care in a field that is developing quickly is a constant struggle. To keep ahead of the ever-evolving landscape, they must constantly hone their talents. Lifelong learning is more… |