What You Should Know:
- Chatbots are emerging as a revolutionary tool in healthcare, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to improve patient engagement across diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and support, according to a new report in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science.
- The study of clinical studies highlights the growing role of chatbots in various medical fields, particularly in oncology, psychiatry, and chronic disease management.
Key Applications of Chatbots in
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Certis Oncology Launches AI-Powered Chatbot for Cancer Research
What You Should Know:
- Certis Oncology Solutions, a translational science and emerging technology leader in preclinical oncology research, is pleased to announce the commercial launch of CertisOI Assistant™, an innovative chatbot tool designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of cancer research.
- This cutting-edge research tool leverages artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT language model to provide researchers unparalleled insights
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Premier to Deploy TeleVox’s AI Chatbots to Hospitals Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- TeleVox, a provider of omnichannel patient relationship management platforms, has recently secured a national group purchasing agreement with Premier, Inc., a healthcare improvement company.
- The strategic collaboration aims to make TeleVox's AI-powered chatbots more accessible to Premier's vast network of hospitals and healthcare providers.
Enhancing Patient Engagement with Conversational AI
Under this agreement, Premier members will have access
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VA Health Chat Now Available Nationwide, Connecting 6.8M Veterans with On-Demand Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
- Veterans across the United States can now access convenient, on-demand healthcare through VA Health Chat, following the platform's national rollout across all Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs).
- The multi-year initiative, facilitated by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), brings CirrusMD's physician-first virtual care services to millions of Veterans.
VA Health Chat: Expanding Access to Care
VA Health Chat is now available to over
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Beyond QA: The Next Wave of Medical Chatbots
Chatbots have come a long way since inception. While we’ve long used them for shopping and to expedite customer service requests, with growing popularity and use cases, they’re now common in fields from finance to healthcare. In particular, medical chatbots can achieve everything from improving the efficiency and quality of care, to quickly connecting patients to important information or providers.
Like most machine learning tools, the more data a medical chatbot is trained on, the
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Why The Evolution of Tech Will be Based on APIs
Layoffs continue to ripple across the economy. Starting with big tech firms and the digital businesses that overhired during the early days of the pandemic, pink slips have now spread to the industrial, manufacturing and professional services industries.
While there are numerous theories on the underlying causes and exacerbators of the surge in job loss, at its core lies a question of efficiency. Companies lay off workers when they believe - rightly or wrongly - that they can accomplish the
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Wysa Secures $20M for AI-Powered Mental Health Chatbot
What You Should Know:
- Wysa, a Boston, MA-based AI digital platform for mental health, today announces it has secured $20M in financing led by HealthQuad, who along with British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, joins earlier investors W Health Ventures, Kae Capital, Google Assistant Investments, and pi Ventures amongst others.
- Funds will enable access to clinically evidenced digital therapeutics (DTx) in the US, UK, India and other global
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Therapeutic Alliance: Building Relationships With AI Therapy Chatbots
What You Should Know:
- Can we build relationships with AI therapy bots as well as we can with other human beings? This research says yes.
- A recent peer-reviewed study in Frontiers of Wysa, an advanced conversational AI for mental health, shows people develop an emotional bond with its chatbot in much the same way people bond with a human therapist. This ‘therapeutic alliance’ is crucial in helping people meet the goals of treatment, the study found.
Peer-reviewed study reveals
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LifeOmic Acquires Bavard, an Enterprise-Grade Conversational AI Platform
What You Should Know:
- LifeOmic, a software company that leverages the cloud, machine learning and mobile devices to power precision health and wellness solutions announced it has acquired Bavard, a Utah-based conversational artificial intelligence (AI) company offering intelligent digital assistants and platforms. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition comes as AI technology has experienced widespread adoption in the health care space, a trend
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Suki Launches Windows Version of Voice-Enabled Clinical Digital Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Suki, a provider of voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, announced today the launch of a Windows version of Suki Assistant, expanding the use of the company’s proprietary technology to Windows-powered computers. This offering complements Suki’s existing mobile and web apps, rounding out access to Suki Assistant and delivering the health care industry’s first end-to-end voice-enabled clinical
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