How Artificial Intelligence Could Completely Transform Mental Health
This article will focus on the use of AI for mental healthcare and its potential to revolutionize the ways we give and receive mental health services. But first, let’s take a look at the current state of affairs and the reasons why we could be dealing with a global crisis in this area.
The Demand Is Increasing
As per the recent WHO Mental Health report, about one in eight people in the world live with a mental disorder.
Urbanization, economic pressures, and the fast-paced nature of life have led to growing stress rates and the accelerated spread of psychiatric conditions worldwide. Fortunately, over the past decade, p...
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Are AI Clinical Protocols A Dobb-ist Trojan Horse?
By MIKE MAGEE
For most loyalist Americans at the turn of the 19th century, Justice John Marshall Harlan’s decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). was a “slam dunk.” In it, he elected to force a reluctant Methodist minister in Massachusetts to undergo Smallpox vaccination during a regional epidemic or pay a fine.
Justice Harlan wrote at the time: “Real liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own, whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others.”
What could ...
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This Is The Easiest Self-Improvement Hack (M)
The technique probably works so well because people learn better from observation. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
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Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: How to Get There
Previous articles in this series have shown how generative AI can be used for administrative and back-office functions in health care. Now we’ll look at how models are trained for these specific purposes.
Training Generative AI Models
Every industry has to develop domain-specific models, and health care has the extra burden of protecting personally identifying data. These requirements raise the question of when the general-purpose solutions offered by major tech companies are appropriate, where health care organizations can get large enough data sets to develop models, and how vanilla LLMs—or foundational LLMS—...
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Three Key Takeaways From ViVE2024
Cybersecurity and the Change Healthcare outage dominated the hallway conversations at ViVE2024. AI was everywhere at ViVE2024, but companies were much more realistic with their productivity claims this year. In the exhibit hall, larger booths were more noticeable.
The three key takeaways from the ViVE2024 event for me were:
Cybersecurity risk and the Change Healthcare outage was top-of-mind for attendees
Vendors are being more realistic in their deployment of AI
Larger booths are starting to appear in the ViVE exhibit hall
Lots of Cybersecurity Concerns at ViVE2024
Healthcare’s vulnerability, specifically to cybersecu...
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Radiology ’ s Next Phase: Real-Time Collaboration Leading the Way
The following is a guest article by Vivian Liu, COO at Braid Health
One thing in healthcare remains constant: the need for answers. This is why radiology is a pillar of our healthcare system because, without a diagnosis, there is no treatment.
In today’s digital age, people want things to be fast, convenient, and reliable. The same is true in healthcare. Patients seek fast, crystal-clear answers to their issues.
In the last 5–10 years, substantial innovations in imaging, particularly through deep learning methods of image classification, have emerged. A noteworthy development is the augmentation of radiology with A...
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Unlearn Raises $50 Million Series C to Optimize Clinical Research With AI-Powered Digital Twin Technology
Using Novel Digital Twins of Clinical Trial Participants, Unlearn is Accelerating Clinical Research to Help Bring New Treatments to Patients Sooner
Unlearn, an AI company creating digital twins of clinical trial participants that enable smaller, faster studies, today announced a $50M Series C round led by Altimeter Capital, joined by returning investors Radical Ventures, Wittington Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Epic Ventures, and Necessary Venture Capital. This round of funding was secured to propel the company’s mission to advance AI to eliminate trial and error in medicine by investing in its people, data, engineering ca...
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Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: A Wealth of Uses
Previous articles in this series introduced the role of generative AI in the healthcare back office and examined its use in billing and revenue management. We’ll cover a lot of other uses in this article.
Patient Contact and Care Management
CEO Rahul Sharma of HSBlox says that the next version of its CureAlign platform will use generative AI to help improve the care management processes in its CareTracker module.
Many patients need reminders, if not actually coaxing, to come in for appointments. The CureAlign platform personalizes outgoing communication based on past interactions with the patient. Sharma says that ...
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What Health IT Trend Has You Most Excited?
Burnout is something that can slowly creep up on you but take a long time to crawl out of. This serious problem is something that happens with you are overworked and overstressed from the problems you are tasked with at work. In the world of healthcare, where we are constantly looking for ways to make things better, it is no surprise that we are facing a high burnout rate. While burnout is hard to recover from, it is possible. Taking time off and finding things that you enjoy and are excited about are key to letting your brain reset and being ready to get back to work.
While there are countless problems and struggles in he...
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MDM2 Inhibition Reduces Loss of Synapses in a Cell Culture Model
Loss of synaptic connections between neurons is one of the harmful outcomes of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. In mouse models of Alzheimer's disease engineered to produce amyloid-β, excessive pruning of synapses is thought to be a maladaptive response to the presence of misfolded amyloid-β. Investigating the details of this excessive pruning in cell cultures, researchers have found a way to interfere in the signaling involved. At least in vitro there are positive results, but it remains to be seen as to how well this approach will work in the animal models of Alzheimer's disease.
Resea...
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Old School Wins: The Mind-Boosting Benefits Of Pen On Paper (M)
Learn how handwriting sparks complex brain activity and enhances memory. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
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Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: Revenue Management
This article starts to look at healthcare generative AI use cases.
Is it any surprise that new technologies in health care pop up quickly in the area of reimbursements? Payments are the constant obsession of every manager.
Claims
Abhishek Sharma, principal of business transformation at Sagility, says that payers question why a doctor ordered an MRI instead of a less costly CT scan, and that precise details in the patient’s medical record and clinical demographic history have to be culled to justify the decision.
Dushyant Mishra, co-founder and CEO of RapidClaims, says that five to ten percent of costs in clinical i...
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Using Data to Uncover Actionable Insights for Service Desk Support
The following is a guest article by Dan O’Connor, Vice President of Service Desk at HCTec
The healthcare industry has quickly evolved to be very data-driven, and the role of IT has become essential in the patient delivery experience. From managing patient records to facilitating medical procedures and ensuring compliance with regulations, healthcare IT systems play a crucial role in delivering quality care.
However, maintaining these systems and providing timely service desk support can be a daunting task, especially in large healthcare organizations. This is where data analytics emerges as a game changer, offering i...
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Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: Back Office Applications in Health Care
This article delineates the advantage of generative AI over earlier forms of AI and machine learning. We’ll look at several areas in health care where generative AI is in use, and discuss ways to make it widely available to small clinical organizations with few resources. We’ll also see how different organizations are training their models for maximum accuracy and value.
The Generative AI Advantage
The impacts of generative AI throughout society will be hard to assess for some time because it is so new and has become the darling of computer science so fast. Stepro describes the pace of change as “extrem...
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Will AI ’s Use in Healthcare be Regulated?
The potential benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare are substantial. AI-powered chatbots can help direct patients to the most appropriate care provider. Ambient clinical voice can virtually eliminate the tedious task of charting for physicians. AI algorithms are can flag radiology images that appear abnormal so that radiologists can prioritize their workload.
AI is advancing quickly. It will not be long before the technology is capable of doing much more complex tasks like diagnosing patients. Should AI be used for this type of work? Is the risk acceptable? These are the questions that are being wrestled w...
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