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May 27, 2025, Issue #310

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Digital Health in the News

Microsoft adds Elon Musk's Grok 3 to Azure, citing healthcare and science use cases

The tech giant will offer access to the LLM for enterprise use as regulatory scrutiny mounts over the model’s data practices and medical diagnostic claims. mobihealthnews

Anthropic’s new hybrid AI model can work on tasks autonomously for hours at a time

Anthropic has announced two new AI models that it claims represent a major step toward making AI agents truly useful. MIT Technology Review

How Mercy is advancing AI across the enterprise

Mercy’s AI strategy spans both traditional and generative tools, with each category targeting specific clinical and operational pain points. Becker’s Health IT

Seattle Children's uses Google AI agent to ease access to its care pathways

While the hospital has always prioritized delivering the most up-to-date care, the sheer volume and rapid evolution of medical knowledge presented a significant challenge. Healthcare IT News

This Week in The Big Unlock Podcast

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Beyond the EHR: Advancing Patient Care with AI and Data Strategies

Priti Patel, MD, VP and Chief Medical Information Officer at John Muir Health shares her journey from family physician to CMIO, offering insights into her 23-year tenure and the evolution of clinical informatics.  

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Insights and Research

Dual-stream algorithms for dementia detection: Harnessing structured and unstructured electronic health record data, a novel approach to prevalence estimation

This innovative approach, devised by the National Centre for Healthy Ageing, is expected to identify more people with dementia early. Alzheimer’s Association

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Damo Thought Leadership and Media Mentions

NEW! Driving Digital Transformation With AI, Voice Bots, and the Power of Starting Small

From piloting intelligent automation to enhancing patient access and provider efficiency, MUSC’s digital journey offers valuable lessons for any healthcare leader navigating transformation. Damo Blog

NEW! Enhancing Research Portfolio Management of a Top 15 Pharma Company

The client needed a robust Research Portfolio Dashboard with management functionality to streamline its drug development portfolio. BigRio Case Studies

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

How Gen AI Could Disrupt SaaS—and Change the Companies That Use It

Generative AI is poised to revolutionize enterprise software, transforming traditional workflow systems into dynamic, goal-oriented environments. This shift will redefine how work is designed and executed, offering significant efficiency gains and new opportunities for innovation. HBR

 

Agentic AI Is Already Changing the Workforce

AI agents are fast becoming much more than just sidekicks for human workers. They’re becoming digital teammates—an emerging category of talent. To succeed in this new environment, however, organizations must actively shape how AI is integrated into their labor strategy rather than waiting for the market to evolve around it. HBR

 

Digital Health Funding and M&A

Persist AI secures $12M Series A funding, unveils Cloud Lab platform

The funds will be used to support building a GMP system for long-acting injectables and grow the company's robotic lab. mobihealthnews

 

Jobs Corner

Senior Bioinformatics Software Engineer

The Senior Bioinformatics (BI) Software Engineer plays a critical technical role in the design, development, and maintenance of scalable and efficient software solutions for bioinformatics pipelines.

 

AI Digital Twin Engineer – Healthcare Modeling

Seeking an experienced AI Digital Twin Engineer with a strong healthcare system or biomedical data background. This role requires end-to-end ownership of AI-driven digital twin initiatives.

 

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