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May 12, 2025, Issue #308

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Digital Health in the News

FDA to integrate generative AI across all centers by June

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to integrate generative artificial intelligence across all its centers by June 30, 2025, following a successful pilot program. Becker’s Health IT

Cedars-Sinai, Redesign Health launch end-to-end digital health venture platform

Cedars-Sinai has partnered with startup builder Redesign Health to launch a “sustainable innovation center” that will scale up digital-first healthcare ventures with day one clinical guidance from the nonprofit health system. FIERCE Healthcare

How Sentara moved Epic to the cloud, saved millions and launched a spinoff

The health system's cloud migration team took learnings from the effort and spun them out into OptaFi, which offers best practices and technical capabilities for moving Epic EHR workloads from on-premise to the cloud. Healthcare IT News

How AI is helping manage radiology’s data deluge

The radiologist shortage and increasing imaging demand are two intertwined challenges that can benefit from large language models. Penn Medicine is showing how. Healthcare IT News

This Week in The Big Unlock Podcast

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Human-centered GenAI is Rebuilding Trust in Healthcare Consumers

Rita Sharma, Chief Product Officer, Pager Health, shares how consumers increasingly expect 24/7, human-like digital support and single point of contact to navigate the fragmented and often overwhelming healthcare system. She emphasizes that while the technology behind the generative AI is maturing rapidly, the real challenge lies in building trust—both within organizations and with consumers—particularly around the responsible data of use. 

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Insights and Research

FDA Announces Completion of First AI-Assisted Scientific Review Pilot and Aggressive Agency-Wide AI Rollout Timeline

The FDA plans to expand generative AI capabilities—across all centers using a secure, unified platform. FDA.gov

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Damo Thought Leadership and Media Mentions

NEW! Redefining Healthcare Innovation Through Human-Centered Technology at Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt adopts a pilot-first approach, experimenting with tools early to shape their development before wider deployment. Damo Blog

White paper: The Silent Barrier to AI in Healthcare is Data Infrastructure: A BigRio Perspective

It outlines a blueprint for healthcare CxOs to design, fund, and govern an AI-ready data architecture, one that delivers not only compliance, but also clinical and financial ROI. BigRio White Paper

White paper: Unlocking the Potential of Data Integration in Digital Health

This white paper explores the critical concepts, standards, and technologies shaping healthcare data integration. BigRio White Paper

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

Why AI Will Not Provide Sustainable Competitive Advantage

AI will transform economies and lift markets as a whole, but lasting differentiation will be built on human creativity and passion. MIT Sloan Review

ChatGPT is getting smarter, but its hallucinations are spiraling

Is delusion the price of sophistication? techradar

Digital Health Funding and M&A

TSOLife raises $43M to expedite product development

The company will use the funds to deliver AI-powered operational improvements to senior living communities. mobihealthnews

Carta Healthcare raises $18.25M to expand AI clinical data platform

The funding comes on the heels of Carta Healthcare’s acquisition of Realyze Intelligence last year. mobihealthnews

Jobs Corner

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

As the CTO, you will be the technology leader leading innovation for the studio, playing a pivotal role in shaping the products architecture, development strategy, and execution of at least two digital health products from the ground up.

Generative AI Engineer (LLM Expert)

Seeking a highly skilled Generative AI Engineer with expert-level experience in LLMs, OpenAI APIs, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

To advertise your job post here for free, please email it to us at info@bigr.io

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