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February 10, 2025, Issue #295

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Webinar: Driving Efficiency and Outcomes with GenAI in Healthcare

Driving Efficiency and Outcomes: Generative AI in Healthcare

When: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 · 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET
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Discover how Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming the healthcare landscape in this exciting and informative webinar. Join industry leaders and AI experts as they explore the latest and most impactful use cases of GenAI in healthcare. From drug discovery to patient care, GenAI is revolutionizing the way healthcare providers, researchers, and companies operate—enabling faster innovation, improved patient outcomes, and reduced operational costs. Whether you’re in healthcare or technology, this webinar is designed to give you practical insights on leveraging GenAI to stay ahead in the ever-evolving healthcare ecosystem.

 

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Digital Health in the News

How Eko Health is reinventing the stethoscope, aiming to change early detection of heart and lung disease

Eko Health has gained FDA clearance for its AI algorithms for detecting atrial fibrillation, structural heart murmurs and low ejection fraction. Fierce Healthcare

Improving the patient experience can pay dividends you may not expect

Ed Mitchell, director, strategic partnerships at Advocate Health, says simplifying technology choices and reducing technical debt can unlock opportunities to enhance patient engagement with improved experience design strategies. Healthcare IT News

Why Telehealth Advocates Are Calling on the Trump Administration to Withdraw New Telemedicine Rules

The DEA recently released three rules regarding the remote prescribing of controlled substances. However, many telehealth advocates argue that two of these rules hinder access to care. MedCity News

Oscar Health implements more AI use cases as membership grows

The insurer, which serves more than 1.8 million members across 18 states, stressed it is able to integrate large language models to monitor follow-up care. Fierce Healthcare

This Week in The Big Unlock Podcast

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AI Technology Can Unlock Healthcare’s Productivity Paradox

In this episode, Dr. Ashish Atreja, Founder VALID AI and Venture Partner, GlobalVenturesX, shares his journey from practicing gastroenterology to becoming a leader in healthcare innovation, digital health, and AI. He discusses his experience behind his career shift into informatics and innovation.

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Insights and Research

What DeepSeek Signals About Where AI Is Headed

Rather than understanding DeepSeek’s R1 as a watershed moment, leaders should think of it as a signal of where the AI landscape is right now — and a harbinger of what’s to come. They should consider five lessons: 1) we’re moving from models that recognize patterns to those that can reason, 2) the economics of AI are at an inflection point, 3) the current moment shows how propriety and open source models can coexist, 4) silicon scarcity drives innovation, and 5) in spite of the splash DeepSeek made with this model, it didn’t change everything, and things like proprietary models’ advantages over open source are still in place. HBR

Study Finds People Prefer AI Over Clinician Responses to Questions in the Electronic Medical Record

Eleni Linos, MD, DrPH, director of Stanford Center for Digital Health and a professor of dermatology and epidemiology at Stanford University and colleagues are among the first to study patient satisfaction with AI-generated responses to medical questions, rather than just the quality of the responses and their risk of causing harm. JAMA Network

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Featured Events

CHIME ViVE 2025: ViVE brings the leadership of CHIME and the marketplace of HLTH to create a digital health event focused on the business of transformation in healthcare. This year, ViVE is at Nashville, a major hub for the healthcare industry, during February 16-19, 2025

Damo Thought Leadership and Media Mentions

NEW! Unlocking AI’s Potential in Healthcare: The Journey Towards Digital Transformation

The healthcare industry is at a pivotal moment. With artificial intelligence (AI) becoming increasingly sophisticated, the challenge now lies in effectively integrating AI solutions into health systems to maximize their impact. Damo Blog

Scaling Telehealth Solutions with BigRio’s Accelerate Model to drive Innovation

BigRio partnered with a leading telehealth provider to scale its award-winning platform amidst surging demand. By deploying agile teams and enhancing features like security, cloud migration, and API integrations, BigRio ensured a competitive, secure, and scalable solution. BigRio Case Study

Transforming Patient Experience: Standardizing and Optimizing Contact Centers at a Large Health System

Sentara Health, a leading not-for-profit healthcare system, faced challenges with fragmented patient experiences across 13 contact centers. Partnering with Damo, Sentara centralized scheduling through the Clinical Access Center and unified contact centers under a comprehensive strategy. The collaboration improved cross-functional collaboration, standardized operations, and enhanced patient care, establishing a seamless, high-quality experience. Damo Case Study

Books Corner

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Other Stuff We’re Reading

The Making Of A Great Healthcare Brand: Mayo Clinic

Drs. William and Charles Mayo believed that better patient outcomes emerged from team-based care in which clinicians from different specialties pooled their expertise. Forbes

Philosophy Eats AI

Generating sustainable business value with AI demands critical thinking about the disparate philosophies determining AI development, training, deployment, and use. MIT Sloan Review

Digital Health Funding and M&A

Teladoc Health acquires Catapult Health for $65M to boost chronic condition management, at-home testing

The two virtual-first companies reached a deal for $65 million, with an additional $5 million in additional contingent earnout consideration. Fierce Healthcare

Jobs Corner

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