The company behind ChatGPT didn't set out to tackle health care. But despite ongoing concerns about its technology's tendency to hallucinate, OpenAI is already inking deals with health care customers desperate to use it to speed up workflows without burdening their staff. OpenAI sells secure, enterprise commercial licenses for ChatGPT and its API to a range of health customers. Early adopters tell STAT they're aware of generative AI's risks, and are careful not to let it dispense medical advice directly to patients — instead, they're harnessing its ability to draw from disparate data sources to generate coherent responses in narrowly-defined settings: summarizing medical records, suggesting treatment plans, or distilling medical jargon into plain language.
Artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit of ever-bigger large language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for algorithms to "think".
The FDA has approved Johnson & Johnson's new tab device for a type of condition which causes abnormal heart rhythm, the company said on Thursday. The device, Varipulse, is a pulsed field ablation system. Medical device makers such as Boston Scientific and Medtronic also have devices approved for atrial fibrillation, a condition that is characterized by an irregular rhythm of the heart.
Nicklaus Children's Hospital has opened a new surgical tower housing robotics, virtual reality and larger operating rooms to help staff perform complex pediatric surgeries and boost patient care.
For every eight hours of scheduled patient care, we average almost six hours using the EHR, nearly half occurring outside clinical hours. Repeatedly scanning, toggling, clicking, and typing zaps our energy, steals our attention, wears us out, and contributes to burnout.