Issue #309: Mayo Clinic radiology leads in AI, Cohere Health raises $90M, virtual nursing boosts care at Hackensack Meridian, and more
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The health system, which operates 16 hospitals, uses more than 250 AI models across its footprint, and employs more than 400 radiologists, a 55% increase since 2016. Becker’s Health IT
The offering measures AI's real-world performance and safety around handling realistic medical conversations, using physician-created rubrics and GPT-4.1 scoring. mobihealthnews
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The integration of generative AI into the workplace represents a tremendous opportunity to enhance productivity, creativity, and innovation. But new research shows that it can have a downside: a study of over 3,500 people found that using AI tools led to performance gains, but also made employees less motivated and more bored when they had to work on other tasks, without the use of AI. HBR
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Cohere is now looking to use artificial intelligence to improve care management and other instances of administrative burden. Fierce Healthcare
The deal creates a 28-hospital system serving patients across New York and Connecticut. Healthcare IT News
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