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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Generative AI
Fraser Health Deploys Generative AI for MEDITECH Expanse EHR
What You Should Know:
- Fraser Health Authority, a healthcare organization in Canada, is set to become one of the first health systems worldwide to deploy generative AI for clinical documentation.
- This innovative initiative utilizes Google Cloud's Vertex AI and large language models (LLMs) to automatically generate initial drafts of hospital course narratives at the time of discharge, significantly reducing the time burden on clinicians and improving the efficiency of discharge
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Generative AI in Healthcare: Accuracy/Reliability Cited Biggest Challenge for Providers, KLAS Reports
What You Should Know:
- KLAS, a leading research and insights firm focusing on healthcare IT, recently released a report exploring the growing adoption and future plans of generative AI in healthcare organizations.
- The report, “Generative AI 2023: What Are Organizations’ Current Adoption & Future Plans?,” is based on the perspectives of 66 healthcare executives, provides valuable insights into the current state and future potential of generative AI in healthcare.
What
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Deloitte Survey: 5 Factors Likely to Shape Healthcare in 2024
What You Should Know:
- The US healthcare system is undergoing a period of significant transformation, driven by factors such as consolidation, digital transformation, and the rise of empowered consumers, according to Deloitte’s 2024 Health Care Industry Outlook survey.
- Healthcare organizations face several challenges in 2024, including talent shortages, workforce challenges, rising costs, and affordability concerns. To navigate these challenges and succeed in the future, healthcare
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Cleveland Clinic Joins AI Alliance to Advance Open Innovation and Responsible AI Development
What You Should Know:
- IBM and Meta announced the launch of the AI Alliance, a newly formed group of leading organizations dedicated to fostering open innovation and open science in artificial intelligence with Cleveland Clinic as one of the over 50 Founding Members and Collaborators.
- Cleveland Clinic joins IBM, Meta, and other leading organizations in the Alliance's mission to advance responsible AI development and ensure that the benefits of AI are accessible to all.
Addressing AI
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athenahealth Adds Traditional and Generative AI Capabilities to EHR Solutions
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth, a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for medical groups and health systems nationwide, announced a range of new traditional and generative AI-driven capabilities across the company's solutions.
- These features, available through athenaOne®, athenahealth's integrated, cloud-based suite of electronic health record (EHR), revenue cycle management, and patient engagement solutions, enable organizations to deliver exceptional patient
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Hippocratic AI Launches Early Access Partnership Program with Providers to Shape the Future of AI-Powered Patient Care
What You Should Know:
- Hippocratic AI, a company building the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, announced the launch of its Early Access Partnership Program.
- This program brings together leading health systems and digital health companies, including OhioHealth, Roper St. Francis Healthcare, Evernow, HarmonyCares, and Guidehealth, to collaborate on developing and validating Hippocratic AI's technology.
A Shared Vision for Safer, More Accessible
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RSNA23: Nuance Pioneers Generative AI in Radiology with PowerScribe Advanced Auto Impression
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications, Inc., a Microsoft Company, announced significant advancements in its efforts to empower radiologists with the latest generative AI capabilities.
- At RSNA23, the company unveiled PowerScribe Smart Impression, a revolutionary AI-powered solution that streamlines workflows, accelerates reporting, and enhances efficiency for radiologists amidst growing staffing shortages and clinician burnout.
PowerScribe Smart Impression: Enhancing Reporting
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IBM and Boehringer Ingelheim Partner on Generative AI for Transformative Antibody Therapeutics
What You Should Know:
- Boehringer Ingelheim and IBM announced a collaboration to leverage IBM's foundation model technologies for the discovery of novel candidate antibodies in drug development.
- The partnership will focus on utilizing IBM's pre-trained AI models to generate new human antibody sequences with desired properties, such as affinity, specificity, and developability. These models will be further fine-tuned on Boehringer Ingelheim's proprietary data to enhance their accuracy
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5 Egregious Virtual Assistant Fails and How to Overcome Them
Three phenomena conspire to drive healthcare organizations towards digitization: 1) patient demand for the same online experience as other consumer sites (e.g., Amazon, Open Table); 2) manual processes contributing to overextended staff made worse by labor shortfalls; and 3) unrelenting need to control costs, optimize revenue and streamline workflows.
But one primary barrier stands in the way: the historically poor performance of chatbots.
Let’s face it. Every single one of us has found
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