Digital Health Weekly - LinkedIn Edition

Dear Friends,

Thank you for welcoming me into your busy day!

I am passionate about?#DigitalHealth?and with?LinkedIn?version of the weekly?#DigitalHealthWeekly?(digitalhealthnews.ca) my aim is to reach even more folks in my?#network.

Welcome to this week's Digital Health Weekly with a synopsis and list of curated articles that I found interesting!

I am so excited to share with you the articles I have picked this week:

• CAN Health Network is expanding to serve #Quebec and #Norther #Territories
• American Medical Association is putting #collaboration forward as key ingredient to optimize #DigitalHealth
• Nabla is ready to rock by using #GPT3 to help #physicians do their work
• CBC News report by McKenna Hadley-Burke talks about the trouble with #Data #Collection in #Healthcare
• The White House 's #Biden #Harris #budget priorities include support for #HealthcareTechnology, #CyberSecurity, and #HealthDisparities - check out the #highlights ?

Links to the stories below.?Lets go!

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This week's key articles from The Digital Health Weekly:

CAN Health Network to serve all of Canada with expansion into Quebec and Northern Territories

"Backed by $30 million in federal funding from?Budget 2022, CAN Health announced earlier this month that it is expanding into #Québec, the territories (the #NorthwestTerritories, #Yukon, #Nunavut), and remote communities.

The CAN Health Network provides an integrated market to connect businesses with hospitals and healthcare providers with the ultimate aim of delivering new medical technologies to help patients. Through the CAN #Health #Network, #healthtech entrepreneurs can test their innovations, connect with the government procurement process, and access other opportunities meant to help them scale."

Why collaboration is key to optimizing digital health

"As one AMA physician trustee put it, the state of digital health is comparable to the cartoon characters Fred Flintstone and George Jetson coexisting. That is, there have been tremendous strides in technologies that serve as tools in medicine, but physicians still find themselves having to fax a medical report to another office or perform 4,000 clicks a day, noted Meg Barron , the AMA’s vice president of digital health strategy and innovations.

“We are truly at an inflection point to how we navigate both existing and emerging models of care,” she said?during an AMA webinar. “Collaboration is absolutely going to be necessary. … None of this can happen in a vacuum. No one group can address this on its own. The overarching consensus is that we need to continue focusing on fixing the foundational issues—think interoperability, think care fragmentation. We are at risk of only additionally exacerbating [current concerns] if we don’t find a way to better connect the dots in this space.”

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Nabla, a digital health startup, launches Copilot, using GPT-3 to turn patient conversations into action

"Copilot, as Nabla’s new service is called, is launching today as a digital assistant for doctors accessed initially as a?Chrome extension?to help transcribe and repurpose information from video conversations, with plans for an in-person consultation tool to launch in a few weeks.

Following along as doctors see patients, Copilot automatically translates those conversations into different document-based endpoints — eg, prescriptions, follow up appointment letters, consultation summaries — that typically result from those meetings. It’s based around?GPT-3, the language model built by OpenAI that is used to generate human text, which is powering hundreds of applications, including #ChatGPT from OpenAI itself."

From virtual care apps to AI algorithms: the trouble with data collection in healthcare

"Many of the companies that run virtual care platforms collect, share and use personal information uploaded by patients, according to?a 2022 report.

Through a grant from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada/Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada , the research team interviewed 18 people affiliated with the platforms — including #employees, #consultants, #contractors and #academics."

Dr. Sheryl Spithoff told? CBC Spark?host Nora Young , "while virtual care platforms said they did not use personal health data — classified as information collected during a meeting with a physician — they did use patients' registration and user data."

Healthcare IT spending priorities in President Biden's new budget

"The administration says it seeks to bolster the IT posture of federal agencies by making "intentional investments at the right time" as well as address cybersecurity, health disparities and public health infrastructure needs."

"In the budget proposal, the administration also says it recognizes that rural areas have higher rates of suicide, overdose and mental illness, so funding is requested to support behavioral health services."