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In her AI classes for medical students, Stéphanie Allassonière, professor of applied mathematics at the Univérsite Paris Cité, first teaches them how to properly collect and clean data to get the most accurate responses out of AI tools.  

According to Heuron CEO Myung-Jin Shin, the company's AI software can identify hemorrhages and assess stroke severity in under three minutes by analyzing a single scan. The company claims to be the first to diagnose Parkinson's via MRI.  

Graham Holland, deputy chief pharmacist at the Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, discusses positive results from the hospital's digital transformation, including a 44% reduction in medication administration incidents.

As the number of ransomware incidents against healthcare organizations increases, providers need to employ key strategies to protect patient data, says Tapan Mehta, health executive at Palo Alto Networks.

Eversana and the Digital Therapeutics Alliance analyze, map and report on reimbursement frameworks in Europe for digital therapeutics. Alberta Spreafico, SVP of health innovation at Eversana, explains.  

Fay Stevenson, ICT director at Barts Health NHS Trust, shares learnings and best practices from the trust's INFRAM journey, including the need to understand existing technology before deciding how to replace or build onto it.

Hee-Eun Ahn and Min-Young Song, product leads at South Korea's AIMMED, discuss Somzz, a medical device offering insomnia interventions, and Snuz, a sleep-management app powered by GPT4-o that will be available globally in August 2024.  

As it introduces new capabilities for its healthcare network security platform, Palo Alto Networks aims to improve the detection and visibility of rapidly multiplying medical IoT devices, reducing the threat of cyber-attacks in medical settings.

The opportunities for digital transformation that are emerging from the convergence of acute clinical practice and data integration can drive patient care to new heights of excellence.

Anne Snowdon, chief scientific research officer at HIMSS, explains that interoperability is fundamental to enabling data-informed patient care decisions and is required for the use of AI and advanced analytics tools.