Oschsner Health announces an enterprise-wide agreement with DeepScribe to implement its ambient AI clinical documentation technology across its 46 hospitals and 370 health and urgent care centers. DeepScribe ambient AI turns each patient conversation into a complete, accurate note with real-time insights for clinicians, empowering them to be fully present with the patient while helping health systems achieve quality and value-based goals. Oschner Health
The health system deployed comprehensive virtual care devices in all of its urgent care clinics, vastly improving the patient and provider experiences and boosting the bottom line. Phoenix Business Journal
A national consumer survey of 2,000 Americans found that 75% of respondents say they're "very" worried about the financial impact of a health emergency. But 48% were optimistic about healthcare AI's potential to improve healthcare's accuracy, efficiency and outcomes. Healthcare IT News
Hospitals all over the country were affected by the recent IT outage caused by CrowdStrike's software update. The incident is estimated to have costed Fortune 500 companies in the healthcare sector about $2 billion. MedCity News
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Trust in doctors and hospitals has plummeted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to survey results published in JAMA Network Open. Modern Healthcare
Though expenses declined since last year, healthcare is still the costliest industry for data breaches — a spot the sector has held since 2011. Healthcare DIVE
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This article explores the transformative applications and future directions of AI in healthcare, focusing on key areas such as GenAI, RAG, Med LLM’s, Enterprise search, secure and private search, and multi-agent AI systems. Damo Blog
We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2023 DigiMTM Digital Maturity Momentum Awards, recognizing excellence and contributions to digital transformation in healthcare. These awards celebrate individuals and organizations that have demonstrated outstanding commitment, innovation, and impact in advancing digital maturity within our industry. Damo Research and Thought Leadership
Last week, we conducted the CHIME online focus group, with our esteemed CHIME healthcare provider members, discussing Enterprise AI Adoption and Governance in Healthcare. The focus was on evaluating current AI applications within healthcare systems, discussing AI’s potential to enhance operational efficiency and patient care, and addressing the challenges of data governance and security. Damo Blog
Our annual survey of the state of Enterprise AI Adoption and Governance in Healthcare Organizations, as part of our CHIME Foundation membership, is out! Download the Report. Damo Research and Insights
Humans have relied on generalizations forever as a mental shortcut — and a way of running a business efficiently. But just as advancements in AI are making it possible to move beyond a handful of customer personas to infinitely personalizable products and messaging, they are also revealing to us a broader world full of ever-changing unique detail. Weinberger, a technology philosopher, and Zanini, a business innovation strategist, show us four areas in which the particular is making itself known and used in business and in life: Strategy, talent management, leadership selection, and supply chain management. Business leaders who see this trend are better positioned to see new opportunities and make better decisions in all these areas. HBR
Spring Health, which offers digital mental health care and navigation services, pocketed $100 million in series E funding, bumping the company's valuation to $3.3 billion. That's up 32% from the company's $2.5 billion valuation just 15 months ago when it secured its series D round. FIERCE Healthcare
Jefferson Health and Lehigh Valley Health Network completed a merger Thursday that creates a $15 billion nonprofit health system serving Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Modern Healthcare
Women’s health tech, which leverages innovations in AI, smartphones and connected wearables to give women more insights into reproductive and menstrual health, continues to gain momentum with users, and investors are following. TechCrunch
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