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Doctors Get a Voice-Activated Assistant: Fujifilm Sonosite Launches Hands-Free Ultrasound Control

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the leader in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) solutions, has unveiled a game-changer for healthcare professionals: Sonosite Voice Assist. – The innovative feature allows doctors to control their Sonosite PX and Sonosite LX ultrasound systems using voice commands, freeing their hands for critical procedures.

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The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home? The AMA Launches a Health at Home Framework

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Note that this framework has been developed by the AMA, the largest professional organization of doctors. While moving health care to the home will involve quite different workflows and disruptions to current general medical practice, it is clear that physicians in the U.S. The post The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home?

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China Medical University Hospital leverages Google's genAI for cancer care

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China Medical University Hospital is leveraging Google Cloud's generative AI to support its doctors in providing cancer care. A formal collaboration between CMUH and Google Cloud was signed in December last year to use MedLM , a healthcare-specific gen AI based on the large language model, Med-PaLM 2.

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Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

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This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around.

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Teladoc to partner with Amazon on Alexa-enabled virtual visits

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customers around the country can connect with a Teladoc provider via audio at any time for general medical needs. The collaboration announcement follows news from Amazon Care that it will be expanding in-person medical services in more than 20 cities this year, in a complement to the company's app-based urgent care available to employers.

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GE HealthCare to Acquire Caption Health to Expand AI-Guided Ultrasounds

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What You Should Know: – GE HealthCare acquires Caption Health, Inc., a privately owned artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare leader that creates clinical applications to aid in early disease detection, using AI to assist in conducting ultrasound scans.

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NEC expands digital elderly care system trial to Chiang Mai

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The first phase of the project involves the deployment of IoT devices in participating healthcare facilities and an application for caregivers and families that provides alerts on falls and abnormal health conditions of the patient. Their number is projected to continuously rise and make up about 30% of the population by 2040.