Category: digital health

UC Davis Health’s Digital CoLab, along with the CDC Foundation and the Boston Children’s Hospital, launched a digital pilot program that allows public health officials to use a surveillance dashboard to track opioid overdoses nationwide.

While digital health funding hit a six-year low in the second quarter of 2023, promising startups continue to land big deals. Here are nine digital health investments Becker’s reported on in the past month.

Karen DeSalvo, MD, Google’s chief health officer, believes that artificial intelligence could change healthcare on a “planetary scale” by expanding access to care, The Washington Post reported Aug. 29.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems plans to expand virtual sitting to 29 hospitals as the program has been successful in preventing patient falls.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has started using generative artificial intelligence technology from Google to document emergency room visits and speed up nurse handoffs.

Nomi Health admitted that it breached its contract with software developer OSGHD by creating its own digital COVID-19 testing app, allegedly built off of OSGHD’s software, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Aug. 28.

Coral Gables-based Baptist Health South Florida says AI technology has been helping its neurosurgeons speed up stroke care during “golden hour” — the first 60 minutes after a stroke in which clinicians have the greatest opportunity to restore blood flo…

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health is in the process of creating an AI framework to ensure the technology is being developed responsibly, WRAL.com reported Aug. 25. 

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, based in Memphis, Tenn., launched its new fitness app called Healthier 901 for individuals participating in the health system’s weight loss challenge.

While ChatGPT has shown promise in picking imaging tests and identifying diagnoses, it was decidedly less successful in recommending cancer treatments.