Microsoft Copilot+ PCs — Windows devices equipped with neural processing units (NPUs) — are transforming how healthcare organizations manage diagnostics, documentation and administration.With artificial intelligence (AI) running directly on the device, clinicians can process…
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Background: The rapidly expanding digital health landscape offers innovative opportunities for improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes; however, regulatory and clinical frameworks for evaluating their key features, effectiveness, and outcomes are lacking. Cardiovascular and…
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The Privacy Gap in Wearable Technology
Senator Bill Cassidy, R-La., is leading a crucial effort to strengthen privacy protections for health information collected through wearable devices and mobile health applications. As chair of the Senate…
Suna Health is pioneering acoustic digestive state tracking through a wearable patch that continuously monitors gastrointestinal activity using AI-powered acoustic sensing. The discreet patch contains an acoustic sensor and a 200-hour battery, with on-device machine learning classifying gut sounds…
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Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives…
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Two of our biggest talking points in the healthcare IT space, cybersecurity and accessibility, come together in an interesting conflict. Increasing accessibility has been a big goal in healthcare in order to make the…
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Although still at a nascent state, quantum computing promises advances in healthcare, from drug discovery to personalised treatments. But it also threatens current cryptographic systems that protect medical data and infrastructure. The concept of…
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Speech data inherently contains personally identifiable information. Anonymization strategies to obscure this while preserving essential characteristics all represent a tradeoff between privacy and utility. We examine this balancing act of modifying voice characteristics, masking…
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UK start-up Aide Health has launched an AI-powered ‘medical memory’ app to summarise consultations for patients.
Research shows up to 80% of medical advice is forgotten immediately, and nearly half of what is remembered about medicine…
The following is a guest article by Jeffrey Barth, President at NexGen Healthcare, a division of NexGen Networks
Safeguarding Trust in Healthcare
Healthcare today is more digital than ever. From electronic health records (EHR) and cloud-hosted…
