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 GE HealthCare Acquires Intelligent Ultrasound for $51M – M&A
HIT Consultant - (Friday July 19, 2024) What You Should Know: GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) announced an agreement to acquire the clinical artificial intelligence (AI) software business of Intelligent Ultrasound Group PLC (Intelligent Ultrasound) for approximately $51M. – The acquisition is…  West Tennessee Healthcare Invests in AI to Improve OR Efficiency, Utilization, & Surgical Growth
HIT Consultant - (Friday July 19, 2024) What You Should Know: – West Tennessee Healthcare, a not-for-profit healthcare system with 7 hospitals and multiple supporting clinics, treating more than 185,000 patients, today announced a partnership with Qventus, the leading provider of AI-based… |
 Global IT outage disrupting NHS caused by antivirus software
Digital Health - (Friday July 19, 2024) Dr Simon Wallace, chief clinical information officer at Microsoft said that a global outage affecting healthcare services had been caused by antivirus firm CrowdStrike.  Plymouth ‘living lab’ project pilots home-based tech for older adults
Digital Health - (Friday July 19, 2024) University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) is supporting Plymouth Community Homes (PCH) on a living lab project which will explore the impact of digital health technology in older residents’ homes. |
 AI Deepfakes Fuel Surge in Social Media Supplement Scams
HIT Consultant - (Friday July 19, 2024) What You Should Know: – Social media has become a breeding ground for deceptive health supplement ads, with AI-powered deepfakes taking these scams to a whole new level of danger. A recent study by…  Capita and Curam partner to improve access to care staff
Digital Health - (Friday July 19, 2024) Capita has partnered with home care staff marketplace Curam with the aim of improving access to affordable social care for local authorities and integrated care systems. |
 Large language models outperform mental and medical health care professionals in identifying obsessive-compulsive disorder
npj Digital Medicine - (Friday July 19, 2024) Despite the promising capacity of large language model (LLM)-powered chatbots to diagnose diseases, they have not been tested for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of LLMs in OCD using vignettes and…  Texas A&M Health and Burst IQ Partner to Optimize Clinical Genomics Research
HIT Consultant - (Friday July 19, 2024) What You Should Know: –Texas A&M Health and BurstIQ, a leader in advanced data management, today announced a partnership to leverage LifeGraph®, a graph-powered, end-to-end data management platform, to transform clinical research. -This collaboration… |
 6 Ways to Sharpen Your Skills As a Medical Professional
HIT Consultant - (Friday July 19, 2024) For medical professionals, maintaining high-quality care in a field that is developing quickly is a constant struggle. To keep ahead of the ever-evolving landscape, they must constantly hone their talents. Lifelong learning is more…  Mobile app gamifies communication training for dementia caregivers
MobiHealthNews - (Friday July 19, 2024) A new mobile application in Singapore is taking an innovative approach to communications training for caregivers of people with dementia. The Institute of Mental Health (IMH), a tertiary psychiatric care hospital under the National Healthcare… |
