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Diabetic Barbie has a: 🩷 Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) on her arm, secured with pink heart medical tape. 🤳 CGM app on her phone to help track her blood sugar levels throughout the day. ⚕️Wearable Insulin Pump on her waist for automated dosing. #digitalhealth
👉 @Mattel is introducing its first Barbie with type 1 diabetes and has partnered with @BreakthroughT1D to make this the first doll with #healthtech to manage the condition.
Can the @WhiteHouse AI Action Plan accelerate AI innovation in healthcare and promote global #healthAI standards? The AI Action Plan focuses on three pillars: 1️⃣ America’s AI innovation 2️⃣ Building U.S. AI infrastructure 3️⃣ Leading international AI diplomacy and security
Writing is an integral part of the scientific method and a common practice to communicate research findings in the age of LLMs. “This is a call to continue recognizing the importance of human-generated scientific writing.”
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
An emerging actor within the health care field is the online health community. OHCs facilitate connections among patients, physicians, hospitals, and other elements of the medical ecosystem via the internet. #OHC
Online platforms fill the needs of patients by offering peer-to-peer support, information on latest studies of a particular condition and ‘lived experiences’, which are often unfulfilled by traditional health care services. nature.com/articles/s4174…
🧵1/Today, we published a key milestone towards AI based cardiac screening in Nature. doi.org/10.1038/s41586… EchoNext outperformed cardiologists and found thousands of high-risk patients missed in routine care. We also made a version available to the world.
🧵1/Today, we published a key milestone towards AI based cardiac screening in Nature. doi.org/10.1038/s41586… EchoNext outperformed cardiologists and found thousands of high-risk patients missed in routine care. We also made a version available to the world.
“For the first time, we may be able to touch all 1,000.”
this diagram is one of the most important in medicine. published over two decades ago, "The Ecology of Medical Care" captured a persistent truth: - of every 1000 people, 800 report symptoms each month. - 327 consider seeking care. 217 actually do. - 8 are hospitalized. - fewer…
#Wearables are effective for chronic disease management, nudging patients into making behavioral changes while reducing strain on health systems.
“Wearables have the potential to transform healthcare by enhancing personalized, preventive and scalable care, but realizing this potential nationally will require payment innovation to match the technological advances” ⤵️ beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-inf…
Not sure if it's me or not, but 2025 finally feels like the year of health tech companies just heads down and grinding/building/growing. Not a lot of talking or fluff like 2020 or 2021. 💪💪💪
This article explores both the cognitive biases impacting LLM-assisted medicine and the countervailing strengths these technologies bring to addressing these limitations.
As large language models are introduced into healthcare and clinical decision-making, these systems are at risk of inheriting – and even amplifying – cognitive biases. nature.com/articles/s4174…
NEW: Funding overview for healthcare AI startups 2025 mega deals include: • Abridge — $550M (2 rounds) • Truveta — $320M • Innovaccer — $275M • Commure — $200M • Hippocratic AI — $141M • Persivia — $107M • Qventus — $105M • Tennr — $101M