Artificial Intelligence
Expectant moms and those with young children in Cook County, Illinois, will use mobile devices enabled with Google Cloud technologies to access personalized care through Drive Health’s AI-powered Nurse Avery.
The project led by Yonsei University and Seoul National University aims to develop AI-based screening tools for early autism detection.
The offering measures AI's real-world performance and safety around handling realistic medical conversations, using physician-created rubrics and GPT-4.1 scoring.
Rather than simply layering technology atop inefficient clinical practices, it's key to take an "urban planning" approach and rethink their structure, says Dr. Anwar Jebran, medical director of population health informatics at Oak Street Health.
Phishing with voicemail scams, deep fakes, medical document forgeries – artificial intelligence is "lowering the bar of who can engage in these activities," says Etay Maor, chief security strategist at Cato Networks.
Several new partnerships are deploying artificial intelligence to drive financial performance: filling underutilized OR schedules, pinpointing revenue leakage and improving medical coding accuracy.
Ambient AI is helping to restore how clinicians connect with patients at the point of care and it's also reducing their after-hours documentation burden, according to Julie Frey, Wolters Kluwer VP of provider product.
Nursing and IT
Theresa McDonnell, DNP, RN, is leading the way with innovative, tech-focused workplace safety and anti-burnout efforts. "Compassion is what connects technology to purpose and people to progress," she says.
Nursing and IT
More than half of nurses say they experience burnout most days, a new survey shows, with 61% planning to change jobs or departments, seek a hybrid position, work as travelers or make other career changes.