AI

A Singaporean startup leverages Asian-specific databases in making heart disease risk assessments.

The editors of Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews discuss AI's value in 2025 in areas such as assisting with administrative tasks, drug discovery, documentation, precision medicine and imaging.

The editors of Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews discuss the telehealth bill that was scuttled in 2024, as well as what's ahead in 2025 regarding the RPM market, physicians' pay schedule and cybersecurity policy.

The DTx solution screens a patient's medical records for potential clinical depression.

Chief AI officers can help organizations address clinical issues, such as C. diff inspections and sepsis, and broader needs like scheduling, resources and improving the backend, says Zachary Durst, IT practice consultant at WittKieffer.

Some leaders say AI will improve a massively inefficient, overpriced and difficult-to-access healthcare system, while others anticipate AI’s potential for earlier, more accurate diagnosis.

AI and genAI can reduce paperwork and errors by automating tasks prone to human error like data entry, clinical documentation and billing, says Aashima Gupta, Google Cloud's healthcare vertical lead.  

Andre Esteva, CEO and cofounder of Artera, a spin-out of Salesforce, relays how the company's AI tool looks at images of cancer tumors and recommends specific therapies to clinicians.

Eric Smith, chief digital officer at Memorial Hermann Health System, discusses the health systems' AI governance council and the use of AI in its day-to-day operations - including patient interactions and ambient listening. 

Pivoting from a healthcare administrator leader into chief health AI officer requires a substantial amount of health AI knowledge or a willingness to get that knowledge, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh.