| The tech aims to assist Amazon’s providers by writing notes from patient visits, summarizing medical histories, drafting messages to patients and helping coordinate care. That’s supposed to reduce administrative tasks by 40 percent, according to the rollout announcement.The company’s move suggests it believes the most immediate benefits of AI in health care will be for its clinicians, not the Amazon customers who pay for service at its clinics.Even so: Doctors don’t have to use the tech if they choose not to, a company spokesperson told Daniel, and patients must explicitly consent to the transcription tool’s use during their visits.The company said patient privacy is “foundational” to how it creates and uses AI tools, and a spokesperson said the tools went through rigorous safety and efficacy testing leading up to implementation. |
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| Doctors treating people with heart failure in England could learn in advance when their patients’ health is likely to deteriorate and offer them care before they end up in a hospital.The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, or NICE — an independent entity that assesses new treatments and medical devices in England — recommended that doctors use two technologies that get data from pacemakers and other implantable heart devices to monitor patients remotely.The technologies — HeartLogic by Boston Scientific and TriageHF by Medtronic — are based on algorithms that monitor a patient’s activity, heart rate variability, heart sounds and other parameters, and send an alert in real time to hospital staff who can provide care to the patient over the phone or in the hospital if needed.Why it matters: Heart failure was a leading cause of avoidable hospital admissions, causing some 90,000 hospitalizations in England between 2019 and 2020, NICE said. A study showed TriageHF reduced hospitalizations from all causes by 58 percent, while HeartLogic cut heart failure admissions by 72 percent.That’s a win for patients and the country’s National Health Service, which can save money and patients’ lives, said Anastasia Chalkidou, a program director in NICE’s division for health technology.“The NHS is under considerable pressure and using technology, such as these devices, could prevent costly hospital admissions which would be avoidable if an early intervention is made,” she said in a statement.NICE estimates that some 25,000 people in England have a heart device compatible with the technologies. |
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