What You Should Know:
- A new survey, Generative AI in Healthcare: Gaining Consumer Trust, from Wolters Kluwer Health reveals significant concerns among Americans regarding the use of generative AI (GenAI) in healthcare.
- While many see its potential to improve care, the lack of transparency and validation around data sources raises major trust issues.
Lack of Trust & Transparency
Key findings of the report include:
- Lack of transparency: 86% of Americans worry about not
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Twin Health Secures $52M to Expand Whole Body Digital Twin Tech
What You Should Know:
Twin Health, creators of the Whole Body Digital Twin™ service for reversing, improving, and preventing chronic metabolic diseases, announced securing $50 million in funding to continue expanding its groundbreaking technology and clinical service solutions for more members across the United States.Twin Health introduced the Whole Body Digital Twin, a dynamic model of each individual’s unique metabolism, powered by artificial intelligence, that is built from thousands
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1 in 3 Primary Care Physicians Have Already Tried AI Scribe Tools
What You Should Know:
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
What You Should Know:
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
What You Should Know:
- 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
What You Should Know:
- 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
What You Should Know:
- 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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