What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?
With RAG, an LLM is better positioned to optimize its output before generating a response, says Tehsin Syed, Amazon Web Services’ general manager of health AI. This is valuable when a…
This feature episode of Talking HealthTech showcases interviews by Peter Birch from Talking HealthTech and Rebecca McBeth from Health Informatics New Zealand (HiNZ) during the Digital Health Week NZ 2024, hosted by HiNZ.This discussion…
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In this episode of Talking HealthTech, hosts Peter Birch, Nathan Moore, and Sophie Turner celebrate a significant milestoneepisode 500. They reflect on the podcast’s journey and dive into health technologys broader landscape and future.Focusing…
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Why Healthcare Systems Are Targeted
Greg Young, vice president of cybersecurity at Trend Micro, says an organization’s biggest vulnerability is simply being in the healthcare industry.
“The amount of key data within these organizations is a…
1. Assess Your Current Environment
This may seem straightforward, but how well do you really know everything that’s part of your infrastructure? How much technical debt do you have? Who are all of the partners…
What You Should Know:
– DeepScribe, the ambient AI of choice for specialty care, and Flatiron Health, a leading healthtech company dedicated to expanding the possibilities of point of care solutions in oncology, today announced a…
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A large federal health agency wanted to modernize its complex public health database system to a new cloud-based database, but the IT team faced an uphill battle. Stakeholders on the project told them, “You’re…
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New Research to Improve Patient Care
Through Cleveland Clinic’s Discovery Accelerator partnership, there are 52 research projects underway using these high-performance computing technologies. Together with IBM, the health system has published peer-reviewed research papers, including its first study,…
I tell the story in the talk about a particular algorithm that is able to pick out breast cancer cells and lymph nodes – very important. The algorithm alone was about 95%—that's pretty good….
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Here is some of the notable M&A activity that occurred among healthcare providers in Q4 2024:
UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys
In November, the Department of Justice released a statement announcing its intent to block UnitedHealth Group’s…
