As Gen AI continues to mature, there will be ways to employ these technologies thoughtfully and safely in healthcare today. The key is to continue to embrace new breakthroughs – with strong guardrails for safety, privacy and transparency.| MedCity News
We must empower health plan members with culturally and linguistically-relevant information about their benefits and health – tools that in turn encourage them to adopt a proactive and informed approach to their well-being.| MedCity News
A federal judge recently blocked the FTC's ban on noncompetes. The decision has important implications for healthcare.| MedCity News
Check out news from Oral Genome, BeMe Health, Noetik, and Vouched.| MedCity News
Repare Therapeutics is cutting discovery and preclinical work to focus on its clinical-stage cancer drugs. The most advanced program is camonsertib, whose rights Repare recently regained from Roche after the pharma giant terminated an alliance started in 2022.| MedCity News
Over the past decade, Abbott and Dexcom — the two largest makers of continuous glucose monitors — have been teaming up with medical device companies that sell automated insulin delivery systems. Industry experts think these partnerships are smart moves to stay relevant in the rapidly-developing diabetes care space.| MedCity News
OMNY Health — a national data ecosystem that facilitates biotech and medical research — launched a data network consisting of EHR data from more than 645,000 GLP-1 users. The data network seeks to give OMNY’s life sciences and health system partners a vast source of GLP-1 data that is related to patient demographics and social determinants of health.| MedCity News
Through community engagement, the root causes of healthcare disparities can be addressed, and the health and resiliency of individuals can be dramatically improved.| MedCity News
Automation startup Qventus launched a new AI assistant designed to alleviate healthcare staff’s administrative burden by completing mundane tasks for them. The assistant was built in collaboration with health systems, including Northwestern Medicine, Ardent Health and Allina Health.| MedCity News
Researchers recently tested ChatGPT’s ability to answer patient questions about medication, finding that the AI model gave wrong or incomplete answers about 75% of the time. Providers should be wary of the fact that the model does not always give sound medical advice, given many of their patients could be turning to ChatGPT to answer health-related questions.| MedCity News
