News 8/16/24 – HIStalk
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The private equity owner of healthcare consulting firm Chartis sells a majority stake to private equity firm Blackstone.
Insiders say that the deal values Chartis at about $1.4 billion.
The 23-year-old Chartis has…
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The private equity owner of healthcare consulting firm Chartis sells a majority stake to private equity firm Blackstone.
Insiders say that the deal values Chartis at about $1.4 billion.
The 23-year-old Chartis has…
It’s still early days for value-based care. The VBC landscape today is characterized by widespread but sometimes superficial adoption. While many health systems have initiated value-based care programs, these efforts, many experts observe, frequently…
Continue ReadingThe Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed a £6.09 million fine on software provider Advanced following an initial finding that it failed to implement measures to protect the personal information of almost 83,000 people.
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The big news of the weekend was hearing about the response of organizations to the CrowdStrike debacle on Friday. Despite official statements that everything was fine and patient care was proceeding as usual, comments…
Continue ReadingGlobal healthcare AI platform Ubie and the American Kidney Fund (AKF) will collaborate to fine-tune Ubie’s AI-enabled symptom checker for kidney disease detection with the aim of accelerating a patient’s time to treatment. Ubie’s AI…
Continue ReadingGoogle Research and Google DeepMind recently released a paper announcing the creation of a new LLM for drug discovery and therapeutic development dubbed Tx-LLM, fine-tuned from PaLM-2.Tx-LLM utilizes the tech giant’s PaLM-2, its generative…
Continue ReadingA study performed by Google Research in collaboration with Google DeepMind reveals the tech giant expanded the capabilities of its AI models for Med-Gemini-2D, Med-Gemini-3D and Med-Gemini Polygenic. Google said it fine-tuned Med-Gemini capabilities using…
Continue ReadingResearchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have developed an artificial intelligence tool that predicts whether a patient will respond to cancer treatment drugs using individual…
Continue ReadingThis week, the Federal Trade Commission hit virtual mental health startup Cerebral with a $7 million fine, accusing the company of mishandling users’ sensitive health data and misleading consumers about cancellation policies.
Cerebral agreed to…
Continue ReadingRegulators who put too many restrictions on the technology can slow down innovation, but if they set up guardrails that aren’t strict enough, they needlessly endanger patients’ lives.
By John Halamka, M.D., President, Mayo Clinic…
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