Issue #289: Mayo Clinic advances precision medicine with real-world data, 2024 Digital health executive insights, Redesign Health raises $175M
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An AI chatbot is helping clinicians explain how artificial intelligence models, fueled by evidence-based healthcare data, can speed research advancements and improve patient access. Healthcare IT News
Collaboration becomes more intuitive and seamless when healthcare organizations identify their core competencies. HealthTech Magazine
Industry executives share their thoughts on the year's digital health developments, from an increased focus on women’s health to the rise of generative AI. Mobihealth news
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A nurse expert discusses the results of a new survey from AvaSure showing that, while virtual nursing has yet to gain traction in acute inpatient care, it holds much promise – and already is showing results that benefit both nurses and the bottom line. Healthcare IT News
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With their supercharged reasoning and execution capabilities, agentic AI systems promise to transform many aspects of human-machine collaboration. The agentic AI prize could be great, with the promise of greater productivity, innovation, and insights for the human workforce. But so, too, are the risks: the potential for bias, mistakes, and inappropriate use. HBR
The rise of AI presents an opportunity for humans to step up to the challenge of refining, emphasizing, and applying our own human strengths to differentiate corporate decision-making. However, human capabilities, like making moral judgments, and using imagination or intuition, are often untrained, impulsive, or implicit. HBR
The fund is Redesign’s largest to date, and it will likely fund more than 20 companies. Fierce Healthcare
Hyro AI has brought in $35 million in an extension of its series B round, recently securing an investment from Healthier Capital, led by former One Medical CEO Amir Rubin. Fierce Healthcare
Soda Health's $50 million Series B financing round was led by General Catalyst and included participation from former Humana CEO Bruce Broussard, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Define Ventures, Qiming Venture Partners USA and SVB Capital. MedCity News