Provider

According to Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS, hospitals wishing to implement AI require sufficient IT infrastructure, strong leadership and governance frameworks, and talented staff who can use the tools safely.

Jong-Soo Choi, CTO of Korea's Samsung Medical Center, says he believes AI can enhance healthcare delivery, but that technical issues related to accessing the cloud and proper handling of patient data must be overcome first.  

Trace will use Unlearn's digital twin generator for ALS to create digital twins of clinical trial participants to advance ALS research. 

Eargo, which makes tech-enabled hearing aids, and hearX, maker of Lexie hearing aids, announced they have merged to form a new company, LXE Hearing.

The judge ruled that the FDA overstepped its authority by regulating LDTs as medical devices, overturning the rule and remanding it to the HHS Secretary for review.

Although some patients and clinicians are hesitant to accept the use of AI in behavioral health, Dr. Colin Banas, DrFirst's chief medical officer, says AI can help customize outreach messages and educate patients about medication.

The pandemic highlighted nurses' importance for care delivery, but Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's program director of nursing informatics, calls on leaders to do more to advocate for nurses and help them stay resilient.

The company will use the funds for AI research and to advance its programs in clinical development.   

Vancouver-based WELL Health will assume control of HEALWELL AI upon the closing of HEALWELL AI's planned acquisition of New Zealand-based Orion Health.

The lack of a strong set of AI-specific regulation in the U.S. allows innovation to happen quickly, but that also requires companies to be transparent and for the industry to take responsibility for its own actions, says Mika Newton, CEO of xCures.