AI

The Hyodol doll, widely marketed as a companion to solo-living seniors, has been registered with the US FDA. 

It has comparable safety outcomes to coronary artery intervention guided by expensive 3D imaging.

It intends to make emerging technologies such as generative AI and mixed reality accessible to people with disabilities.  

Industry executives share their thoughts on the year's digital health developments - from an increased focus on women’s health to the rise of generative AI.

The company will fund and develop companies that focus on eight key areas in healthcare and create AI/genAI technologies that help advance those areas.

Andre Esteva, CEO and cofounder of Artera, a spin-out of Salesforce, relays how the company's AI tool looks at images of cancer tumors and recommends specific therapies to clinicians.

Eric Smith, chief digital officer at Memorial Hermann Health System, discusses the health systems' AI governance council and the use of AI in its day-to-day operations - including patient interactions and ambient listening. 

The company will use the funds to expand its commercial growth and clinical-evidence generation.

Pivoting from a healthcare administrator leader into chief health AI officer requires a substantial amount of health AI knowledge or a willingness to get that knowledge, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh. 

The chief AI officer should understand basic principles about AI, have a computing background and know the ultimate clinical use case, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh.