Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Digital MD newsletter! We're excited to bring you the most compelling insights and updates from the healthcare industry. This week, we cover the transformative power of precision medicine, innovative AI-driven solutions, and essential digital health skills for clinicians. Plus, don't miss the announcement of the Digital MD book, now available on Amazon. Dive in to stay ahead of the game and impact your career.

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Top Insights of the Week

Allegheny Health Network launched Sidekick - their own version of Chat-GPT for employees to reduce the administrative burden so that clinicians can spend more time with patients.

AI use cases for pharma: how a two-phase approach helps healthcare leaders build specific AI use cases to raise the right questions to support business decisions.

Opinion: Walmart’s retail clinics shutdowns could possibly help smaller practices.

Strategic actions to introduce technologies and encourage solution use are more likely to facilitate adoption and successful implementation.

Precision medicine adoption in primary care has been slowed by the need for physicians to learn this new science, regulatory institutions not built for the speed of today’s technology advancements, and stakeholders seeking to maintain the status quo.

AI is accelerating the rate of scientific discovery involving both normal cellular processes and disease pathways. This is at a time when the ability to analyze large data sets using massively parallel cloud computing is exploding.

Healthcare workers, including clinicians, have faced high rates of mental health conditions, burnout and suicide for years.

Envision supports clinicians’ well-being and fosters an environment that encourages clinicians to seek care without fear of losing their ability to practice.

The merger creates one of the largest global AI-based solutions providers in the healthcare ecosystem. The new organization will be driven by an enriched conversational healthcare platform to help increase efficiencies and reduce costs using its complementary technologies, including the company’s AI medical assistant.

Remote monitoring provides a crucial safety net when in-person appointments are unfeasible, enabling patients to share recent health readings for informed care decisions outside normal hours.

Care teams have a single, centralized view of patient data to support clinical decision-making and are alerted to enable early intervention if any readings fall out of range.

The study highlighted the need for users and healthcare providers prescribing the apps to rethink the metrics they use to judge the quality of digital health apps.

By prioritizing rigorous assessments, we can guide healthcare providers and consumers towards better choices, ultimately improving health outcomes and building trust in digital health solutions.

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