AI Agents Take the Ward: Virtual Care Meets Reality
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On today’s show, George and Louise delve into:
Has China really built the world’s first an AI-Agent Hospital?
Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne has built a machine learning model to predict likely wait times in the emergency department, complete with a public-facing dashboard – how cool is that!
Whoops, the US FDA’s AI, Elsa, has problems coming out of the starting gate
Australian regulator the TGA has approved sleep apnoea tech on smartwatches. Is this the relationship saving tech everyone will want?
Congrats to the Bluegum Health Transformation team in Tassie for their early progress in transforming the state’s health system, enabled by digital and data.
Is there a fundamental mismatch between the goals of interoperability and monolith EMRs?
OpenAI’s all listening, all seeing, all dancing AI companion. What could be the applications and implications for healthcare?
And Louise chats with Julia Conway at the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority on pricing virtual care and what’s needed to make virtual a part of everyday healthcare
Connect with Julia on LinkedIn
Resources:
RMH Emergency Wait Times Dashboard Link
Overview of smartwatches & sleep apnoea detection Link
China’s AI Agent Hospital Research Paper Link
Bluegum Health Transformation Homepage Link
Dr Yousseff Aboufandi’s OpenAI LinkedIn post
IHACPA Virtual Care Project Final Report Link
ePatientDave’s Substack #PatientsUseAI Link
JAMIA paper how patients with brain tumours use LLM Link
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