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For all its potential benefits for healthcare, it's still critical to understand how patient data is being collected and used for AI models, says Sara Shanti, a partner in Sheppard Mullin's Chicago-based Corporate Practice Group.

There is more technology than ever to support healthcare transformation, says Penn Medicine Chief Information Officer Mike Restuccia. Partnerships between health system operations and IT teams will make all the difference in how it's put to work.

A new law passed in New York and legislation introduced in Ohio are just two of the latest examples of a legislative push to expand insurance coverage for biomarker testing.

Done right, more widespread adoption of remote patient monitoring will offer breakthrough innovations where healthcare delivery can be improved, clinician workloads can be right-sized and better patient outcomes can be achieved, an expert says.

Also, FPT has closed a deal to exclusively distribute Nipro's blood glucose monitors in Vietnam.

Together, talent and technology can help to solve Southeast Asia’s nursing shortage by relieving the pressure on healthcare workers, improving the nurse and patient experience and getting people the care they deserve.

Leaders from Providence, Humana and VMware offered varied perspectives on their artificial intelligence journeys at the HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum on Friday.

"AI can fundamentally change the physician experience with an EHR by making it an intelligent partner for the clinician," says Paul Brient, chief product officer of athenahealth.

A project by Pauliina Ilmonen, mathematician at Aalto University in Finland, and her colleagues is emulating a zombie plague to gain insights into how an event like a pandemic or a mass disinformation campaign can spread.  

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