Researchers from the University of Westminster; Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and Positive East looked at resources from the UK's National Health Service and the World Health Organization to develop their community-driven approach for increasing inclusivity, acceptability and engagement with artificial intelligence chatbots. WHY IT MATTERS Aiming to identify activities that reduce bias in conversational AI and make their designs and implementation more equitable, researchers looked at several frameworks for evaluating and implementing new healthcare technologies, including the Consol ..read more

As part of NVIDIA's AI Enterprise software available on AWS Marketplace, developers will gain access to an expanding AI model library through standard APIs. This integration with Amazon SageMaker and AWS ParallelCluster is designed to streamline deployment and management of machine learning models and high-performance computing clusters on AWS. Additionally, NIMs can be orchestrated using AWS HealthOmics, tailored for biological data analysis. In a blog post announcing the integration, NVIDIA noted NIM incorporates genomics models derived from Parabricks, a software platform developed by NVID ..read more

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the integration of virtual care has become pivotal in reshaping patient experiences. Amanda Bury, chief commercial officer at Infermedica, a digital health company specializing in AI-powered systems for symptom analysis and patient triage, knows telehealth's potential to enhance and optimize patient experiences and outcomes while emphasizing convenience, affordability and empowerment – tying in responsible AI innovation and strategies for enhancing engagement. We interviewed Bury to discuss the aspects of a hospital's or health system's patient ex ..read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) solutions can reduce administrative headaches for nurses and clinicians and offer them more time for actual patient care. The technology can automate documentation and administrative tasks like scheduling, so shifts aren’t over- or understaffed. It can provide clinical decision support using relevant, evidence-based information. And robotics can physically assist nurses with medication administration or mobile patient transfers to reduce burden, promote safety and enable clinicians to focus on higher-value tasks. Those are just some of AI’s selling points. But not ..read more

A new study from Mount Sinai suggests that using generative artificial intelligence to help with coding automation has some significant limitations. WHY IT MATTERS For the research, Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine evaluated the potential application for large language models in healthcare to automate medical code assignments – based on clinical text – for reimbursement and research purposes.  The study compared LLMs from OpenAI, Google and Meta to assess whether they could effectively match the right medical codes to their corresponding official text descriptions. To assess a ..read more

Coding of physician office visits can be very confusing – and is ever-changing. Every year, regulations and guidelines change, and it is difficult for providers to keep up. Most groups have coding staff with limited training, so some changes go unrecognized. The flipside of coding is compliance – and the ever-rising risk of compliance audits that may have grave financial consequences to provider groups if violations are found. Increasing top-line revenue "In healthcare, you get paid only for what you document and the codes you submit," said Dr. Bruce Cohen, a surgeon and former CEO at OrthoCa ..read more

While some nurses recognize the potential of artificial intelligence to minimize documentation burden and improve patient monitoring – and see a future with broader AI-enabled nursing – others are concerned about AI replacing empathetic human assessment of patients, cutting nursing jobs, risking protected patient data to compromise and more. In this spirit, the California Nurses Association organized a protest against Kaiser Permanente's use of artificial intelligence on April 22 at San Francisco Medical Center in Oakland, accusing the health system – and the hospital indu ..read more

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Ultrasound is one of the most important advances in medicine. With the capability of seeing the fetus inside the uterus, physicians can now more accurately estimate the gestational age, growth and weight of the fetus, diagnose countless fetal abnormalities and other advances in obstetrics. None of these abilities people now take for granted would have been possible but for ultrasound. This has dramatically improved outcomes for pregnancies. Now, artificial intelligence emerges as another leap forward for maternal care – akin in significance to the advent of ultrasound, said Dr. Yinka Oyelese ..read more

AI and advanced analytics tools can streamline healthcare organizations’ clinical and non-clinical workflows, allowing clinicians and staff to focus on higher-value tasks. However, thoughtful implementation and change management is crucial for adoption of these tools. In season 2, episode 5 of the "Unlocking Big Data" podcast sponsored by Arcadia, John Halamka, Mayo Clinic Platform president, and Arcadia president and CEO Michael Meucci, talk about important steps healthcare organizations should take to ensure that any AI tools they use deliver accurate results and help increase equitable car ..read more