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Elation Health, the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced the results of a survey of 229 primary care physicians focused on the benefits, desired features, and hurdles to adoption of artificial intelligence–powered (AI) medical scribe tools in the EHR.AI scribe tools use speech recognition and natural language processing to capture and transcribe conversations between a physician and a patient during clinical
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Google Cloud Launches Healthcare Focused Generative AI Models
What You Should Know:
- Google Cloud unveils MedLM, a family of generative AI models specifically designed for medical applications.
- Building on the success of Med-PaLM, Google's latest offering promises to revolutionize medical documentation, drug research, and patient care experiences.
MedLM Background
Built on the foundation of Med-PaLM 2, MedLM offers two model sizes: a larger one for complex tasks and a smaller one for scaling across various applications. MedLM is trained on
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Hello Alpha and TrestleTree Partner for Sustainable Weight Loss
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Hello Alpha, a virtual primary care platform built for accessible, personalized healthcare, and TrestleTree, a leader in health transformation through coaching, announced today their strategic partnership aimed at addressing critical gaps in sustained weight loss.The collaboration is set to advance the approach to weight management programs by combining evidence-based treatment and prescription medicine where appropriate with personalized coaching, ensuring patients
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Amino Health Appoints John Asalone as CEO, David Vivero Transitions to Chairman
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- Amino Health, a digital healthcare navigation company, today announced the appointment of John Asalone as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Asalone succeeds David Vivero, the company's founder and CEO, who will transition to the role of Chairman.
- Asalone joined Amino in August 2023 as COO and brings 20 years of experience scaling software and marketplace companies. Previously the SVP of Growth Verticals at GoodRx, Asalone specializes in bringing
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Redefining Chronic Kidney Disease Management with Remote Patient Monitoring
Chronic kidney disease may be one of the biggest killers of American adults, but individuals affected may not even know it. Today, more than 37 million people – 15% of the population – have chronic kidney disease, which is the ninth leading cause of death. But, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as 90% of these individuals are unaware they have this disease.
One of the challenges is that chronic kidney disease often occurs alongside or as a result of
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Fruit Street Health Accuses Sharecare of Stealing Diabetes Program, Files $25M Lawsuit
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- Fruit Street Health, a New York-based healthcare startup, has filed a lawsuit against Sharecare, a healthcare technology company, seeking $25M in damages for alleged breach of contract and fiduciary duties.
- The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, claims that Sharecare violated the terms of a shared business agreement by launching its own diabetes prevention program, "Eat Right Now," in January 2023.
Fruit Street Health Allegations
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Privia Medical Group Launches Privia Wellness in Partnership with Iron Health
What You Should Know:
- Privia Medical Group Gulf Coast is pioneering a novel approach to women's healthcare by launching Privia Wellness, a new ancillary service offering comprehensive health and wellness solutions.
- Powered by Iron Health and supported by March of Dimes, aims to provide women with convenient access to personalized care beyond their typical OB/GYN services.
- Recent research highlights the pivotal role of OB/GYNs in women's overall healthcare, with a majority of women
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Darena Solutions, Leidos, and SLI Compliance Launches Healthcare AI App Verification Program to Streamline EHR Integration
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- Darena Solutions, Leidos, and SLI Compliance join forces to launch a first-of-its-kind verification program for AI applications in healthcare. This healthcare AI app verification program aims to bridge the gap between the growing demand for AI and the challenges of integrating it seamlessly with Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
- This initiative represents the first time two ONC-approved test labs have collaborated on such a program. Darena Solutions brings its
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3 Key Ways AI Will Transform Health IT in 2024
Healthcare leaders need to lean into artificial intelligence (AI) or risk losing out. With advancements in technology taking place at lightning speed, 2024 is the year adopting AI becomes a strategic necessity.
Although healthcare has been slower than other industries to embrace AI, the tides are changing. A recent Morgan Stanley Research survey found that 94% of healthcare organizations use AI in some capacity, and the industry's average budget allocation for these technologies is projected
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How AI and Intelligent Automation Can Support and Retain Nurses
Frontline nurses across the country remain in a state of constant crisis as they attempt to deliver patient care while facing tremendously stressful environments, untenable patient-to-nurse ratios, and frustrating process inefficiencies. In fact, about 100,000 registered nurses left the workforce during the past two years due to stress, burnout and retirements, and another 610,388 reported an intent to leave by 2027, according to a study released by the National Council of State Boards of
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