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

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– The innovative feature allows doctors to control their Sonosite PX and Sonosite LX ultrasound systems using voice commands, freeing their hands for critical procedures. By integrating voice control, Fujifilm Sonosite is empowering doctors to work more efficiently, effectively, and safely.

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

Health Populi

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

Health Populi

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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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. Based on a statement, their partnership aims to introduce assistive tools to support doctors in precision cancer treatment.

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The Tik Tok’ing of Medical Mis-Information: Doctors’ and Patients’ Roles in Curating Healthy Advice

Health Populi

Doctors in the U.S. believe that the medical mis-information problem is worsening, learned in survey research from Merck Manuals. Doctors and patients, both, have roles to play in addressing medical misinformation online. That’s less than half of the percentage of doctors saying so — 98%, virtually all U.S.

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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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NEC expands digital elderly care system trial to Chiang Mai

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In the second phase, a cloud-based application that allows remote health monitoring, as well as managing appointments and medication requests, will be rolled out. In the final phase, NEC will enable telemedicine services to allow patients to receive diagnoses and get on consultations with doctors from their homes.