medical technology

In the heart of southern France, CHU Montpellier stands at the forefront of Europe’s digital health revolution, earning distinction as the nation’s first hospital to fully integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies powered by Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. With the launch...

AI is rapidly rewriting the future of healthcare and life sciences, no longer confined to the realm of visionaries or speculative startups, but actively reshaping the way institutions accelerate scientific breakthroughs, boost clinician productivity, and enhance the overall patient experience...

Here is a summary of the news: Health Catalyst Announces Strategic Partnership with Microsoft to Accelerate AI Adoption and Transformation for Care Delivery Organizations Date/Source: April 29, 2025, PRNewswire, as reported by The Herald Journal. Partnership Overview: Health Catalyst, a leading...

The dazzling lights of Las Vegas serve as the ideal backdrop for a healthcare revolution in full swing, where innovation, risk, and opportunity converge as thousands descend upon HIMSS 2025. With AI seizing the spotlight and the healthcare world abuzz, seasoned leaders and ambitious disruptors...

A specter is haunting healthcare IT: the specter of trust. For decades, clinicians, administrators, and patients have endured a parade of technosolutions that promise efficiency but deliver... let’s say, “mixed results.” (“Who doesn’t love EHR downtime during lunch?” said no one, ever.) Now...

A few decades ago, the notion that a patient could show up to a doctor’s appointment with more data than the doctor—or at least with a formidable stack of web printouts—would have sounded like a scene from a farcical medical sit-com. Today, it’s almost unremarkable. In fact, if current trends...

You walk into an emergency room—lights blinking, monitors beeping, the persistent symphony of organized chaos in the air—and you watch as the clinicians move at a breathtaking pace. What you might not notice as you marvel at their focus and finesse is the mountain of paperwork that tails them...

A Contemporary Tide in Medicine: Artificial Intelligence at the Heart of Global Health Discourse If ever there was a moment for healthcare to reimagine itself, the time is now—and nowhere was this more apparent than during Abu Dhabi Global Health Week, where the world gathered to scrutinize the...

The healthcare world is buzzing with change as Microsoft Research’s Peter Lee revisits a journey that began two years ago with the transformative launch of GPT-4. Lee’s deep-dive into generative AI—a journey chronicled in his coauthored book, The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and...

Link Removed Last year around this time I had the chance to write a post about one of my favorite mixed reality uses cases – healthcare. Since that time, we have continued to see remarkable momentum for mixed reality across numerous facets of the industry. This week at Link Removed our team...

Link Removed As a baby boomer entering the AARP and Medicare world, several thoughts come to mind and are of concern. Would it be better if I knew less about medicine, health care policies, need for cost containment, the abuse of self-referral, the potential that my own future health...

BBC News - First human 'infected with computer virus' Dr Gasson admits that the trial is a proof of principle A British scientist says he is the first man in the world to become infected with a computer virus. Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading had a chip inserted in his hand...