Tag: healthcare
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Relevant to your interests, Tuesday 3 + 4 – On the three day work week. AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate – “Internal documents reportedly show 69-81% ‘regretted attrition’–meaning the people leaving are the ones Amazon desperately wanted to keep. Where have the senior engineers who’ve been through…
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Adding Apple Health to ChatGPT is, hopefully, great. I haven’t used it yet, so it might be bullshit – most of the other app integrations are silly, but just slurping in data seems hard to fuck-up. What would be the utility? Just the basics would be enough. As Manton says: We know next to nothing…
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🤖 AI in Radiology: Why Machines Make Radiologists Busier, Not Obsolete
AI has revolutionized medical imaging benchmarks, detecting diseases with speed and precision that can surpass human radiologists. Yet in practice, hospitals still rely heavily on human expertise, and radiology jobs are growing in both pay and demand. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: AI isn’t replacing radiologists. Key Points AI models excel in lab benchmarks but…
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Oscar Health’s early observations on OpenAI o1-preview – Experiments with using AI in healthcare, specially the chain of reasoning stuff in o1-preview.
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It’s Time To Tell The Healthcare CX Story In Terms Of ROI – The focus is healthcare, here, but this applies to all industries: “Meeting with C-suiters and boards of directors, the disconnect is pretty clear. While CX pros (in many industries, not just healthcare) tend to talk about customer experience improvements in terms of…
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Economist Daron Acemoglu: ‘When mistakes involve powerful technologies, you’re going to have trouble’ – ‘He imagines a day when teachers could use AI to create individual lesson plans for every student, or nurses might be able to take on much greater roles in, for example, diagnosing diseases. “Why is it that nurses cannot prescribe medications?…
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Link: How close are we to platform domination in healthcare’s digital business models?
https://www.cio.com/article/3404529/how-close-are-we-to-platform-domination-in-healthcares-digital-business-models.html#tk.rss_all Source: How close are we to platform domination in healthcare’s digital business models?
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Link: Dutch now pay more on housing, healthcare and energy than before the crisis: ING
In 2017 basic needs such as housing, healthcare, food and energy accounted for 41 percent of household spending, compared to 36 percent in 2008. Housing and maintenance in particular became a relatively larger cost item, increasing from 19.5 percent in 2008 to 23.7 percent in 2017. Healthcare accounted for 3.8 percent of household spending in…
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Link: How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care
MD Anderson Cancer Center partnered with IBM Watson to create an advisory tool for oncologists. The tool used natural-language processing (NLP) to summarize patients’ electronic health records, then searched databases to provide treatment recommendations. Physicians tried out a prototype in the leukemia department, but MD Anderson canceled the project in 2016—after spending US $62 million…
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FDA wants to regular off-label use of ML-driven devices
Obtaining FDA approval can be a difficult and long process. “The traditional paradigm of medical device regulation was not designed for adaptive AI or ML technologies, which have the potential to adapt and optimize device performance in real – time to continuously improve healthcare for patients,” the report said. “The highly iterative, autonomous, and adaptive…
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Link: DOJ approves $69B CVS-Aetna merger as healthcare industry restructures
CVS, which racked up about $185 billion in revenue last year, runs the country’s largest retail-pharmacy chain and provides prescription plans to more than 94 million customers. By joining forces with Aetna—the nation’s third-largest health-insurance provider with over 22 million medical members, earning $60 billion in revenue in 2017—CVS will have a tight grasp on…
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Link: “Gartner also found that there was a greater reliance on third-party developers in governments than other sectors, with more than half saying they used them. This is in contrast to 41 per cent over all the six industries surveyed, which compris
Just over half of government IT work relies on outsourcing, 10% higher than private sector average: “Gartner also found that there was a greater reliance on third-party developers in governments than other sectors, with more than half saying they used them…. This is in contrast to 41 per cent over all the six industries surveyed,…
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Link: Airplane Maintenance is Offshored
“ I don’t worry much about where maintenance occurs. Indeed, if maintenance can be done for less we ought to buy more, so less expensive can mean safer…. Rather than fearing the offshoring of airplane maintenance we ought to ask how we can expand the concept. Medical tourism, for example, is growing. If foreign airplane…
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Link: The My Health Record story no politician should miss
“Early signs of Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia would mean the end of a political career, perhaps rightly so. But with all the taboos still surrounding mental health, signs of less dramatic conditions could be used as political leverage. A prescription for an anti-psychotic medication, say, or even just a series of appointments…
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Link: The Bezos-Buffett-Dimon health care venture: Eliminate the middlemen
“There’s ample room to replicate that success in health care, because the system in the U.S. has long been plagued by excessive transaction costs – the expenses incurred when buying or selling goods and services. These include irrational pricing, as evidenced by the price of services varying wildly for hospitals, insurers and patients. This, along…
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Link: Cigna acquiring Express Scripts
Consolidation in healthcare: “Cigna has agreed to buy pharmacy benefit giant Express Scripts for $52 billion in cash and stock. Including debt, the deal is valued at $67 billion.” Original source: Cigna acquiring Express Scripts
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Link: Warren Buffett reveals more details about healthcare venture with JPMorgan and Amazon
“We have got a huge, competitive disadvantage in American businesses, far more important than any tax change, in terms of our healthcare costs.” Original source: Warren Buffett reveals more details about healthcare venture with JPMorgan and Amazon
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Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Try to Disrupt Health Care
Good example of lots of context for a story. Original source: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Try to Disrupt Health Care
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Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan form health care mega-company
‘There aren’t many, but the announcement says this new entity focuses on “technology solutions that will provide U.S. employees and their families with simplified, high-quality and transparent healthcare at a reasonable cost,” beginning with the companies’ own workers.’ Original source: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan form health care mega-company
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Who’s using DaaS
Citrix has a new DaaS service provider survey out. I’m often overly harsh on virtual desktops and, by extension, DaaS. I’m always curious who actually uses this stuff, so the vertical breakout is interesting: The largest number of service providers who responded listed financial services, healthcare and manufacturing as the vertical markets they served. This…
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