Startup Fair Square Medicare is using advancements with generative AI to build AI-based voice agents to screen seniors for insurance coverage and improve and streamline the customer experience. After testing the tools internally, the company is now offering this technology as an enterprise product for large insurance distributors and carriers. FIERCE Healthcare
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine plans to deploy generative AI-powered clinical documentation from Microsoft across the health system and its Epic EHR. Becker’s Health IT
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst released a paper this week showing that large language models tend to hallucinate quite a bit when producing medical summaries. MedCity News
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The performance of GPT-4, the large language model that powers ChatGPT, in answering healthcare questions can change over time, a phenomenon known as "drift," according to a study by researchers at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham. Becker’s Health IT
OpenAI’s GPT-4 was able to identify suicidal ideation with similar accuracy to clinicians, but in a much shorter amount of time, a new study from Brightside Health found. MedCity News
The 451 Research report indicates that rapid AI uptake is having business results, with 81% of AI-mature healthcare enterprises doing better in 2023, year over year. Healthcare IT News
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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
A system for allowing patients and employers in the United States to compare health services on the basis of price would be inadequate. To make such a tool worthwhile, quality comparisons are also essential. This article offers three steps that would put the country on a path to create such a system: 1) incentivizing the adoption of patient-centered quality measures at the condition level, 2) identifying clinicians, such as surgeons, who meet a minimum volume threshold for common procedures, and 3) ensuring the accuracy of clinician directories. HBR