Artificial Intelligence
MedGemma, built on Gemma 3, aims to help developers build AI-based healthcare applications with open models, including multimodal and text-only versions.
"By making it faster and easier to use the most up-to-date guidelines at the point of care, we anticipate a more consistent application of best practices, which can contribute to improved patient trajectories," says the hospital's CMIO.
Cybersecurity In Focus
Financially constrained hospitals and health systems need federal funding and support to augment their cybersecurity workforces, according to a Health Sector Coordinating Council report to HHS.
Dr. Justin Norden, CEO of a generative AI infrastructure company, warns hospitals and health systems to identify ROI, safety issues, risk, governance and long-term value when approaching AI systems and tools.
The platform will use AI, analytics and intelligent clinical applications to create secure and scalable care models.
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.