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Listen to the article 3 minutes This audio is automatically generated, please let us know if you have any feedback. Dive Overview: For the fourth consecutive year, artificial intelligence was ranked as the hottest emerging technology in healthcare, according to a survey of executives conducted by the Center for Connected Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Eighty-five percent of respondents agreed that AI should be at the top, suggesting that executives believe the technology has “tremendous potential” to improve management, operations and clinical care, the report said. Executives also said that AI was the technology that had seen…
The mission of the Office of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Health Research is to advance National Institutes of Health (NIH) efforts to support research, training, and community engagement to promote and improve the health of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities in the United States and its territories. The NHPI Health Research Office, to be established within the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) in 2024, will: Address health disparities in NHPI communities. Support the career development and training of NHPI health-focused researchers. Develop partnerships with academic institutions with a proven track record of…
Ben Robbins, general partner at GV (Google Ventures), spoke with MobiHealthNews to discuss how multi-billion dollar venture firms are investing in digital health companies, the place of AI in healthcare, and how governments are getting involved in the space. MobiHealthNews: How do you decide which companies to invest in? You have a background in psychiatry. Does that influence what you look at in a company? Ben Robbins: The obvious one is teams. The way I think about teams is that they are typically able to credibly solve some of the key problems in healthcare. So from my perspective, as a…
Spotify claims that Apple may have again violated the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a European regulation that requires interoperability among big tech companies known as “gatekeepers.” This time, the issue is not with in-app purchases, links or pricing information, but with Apple's removal of technology that allowed Spotify users to control the volume of connected devices. When streaming to a connected device via Spotify Connect on iOS, users were previously able to adjust the volume using the physical buttons on the side of their iPhone. With this change, this feature will no longer be available. To get around this issue,…
Peraton appears to have backed out of the fight for a $1 billion enterprise IT contract with the Defense Manpower Data Center.Deloitte was awarded the contract earlier this year, but Peraton subsequently filed a protest, resulting in a corrective action being taken in Peraton's favor. The center said it would reevaluate Peraton's proposal, including its technical approach.But Deloitte was awarded the contract again, and Peraton returned in late June with a new challenge.Peraton withdrew his new protest on Tuesday, seemingly allowing Deloitte to get to work on drafting the contract.Companies are not required to give reasons for withdrawals, and Peraton…
Magic, an AI startup that creates models that generate code and automate a variety of software development tasks, has raised a significant amount of funding from investors including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Magic announced in a blog post Thursday that it had closed a $320 million funding round, with contributions from Schmidt, Alphabet's CapitalG, Atlassian, Elad Gill, Jane Street, Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross, Sequoia and others. The funding brings the company's total funding to nearly $500 million ($465 million), and puts it in the company's league of well-funded AI coding startups that includes Codeium, Cognition, Poolside, Anysphere and…
The newly expanded Champions League kicked off on Thursday, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Gianluigi Buffon attending as guests of honour at the draw and overseeing some exciting matches.Key among them was the match-up between the two most successful teams in the history of European football: Real Madrid (14 titles) and AC Milan (7), the two teams with the most European Cup/Champions League titles in history, a fitting tie for the inaugural edition of this new format of the competition.Madrid and AC Milan have met 15 times in the competition and the records are exactly even: both teams have won six…
• The 200-lap race on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025 will be the first Xfinity Series event held at the venue since 2010. • The weekend will also feature Worldwide Technology Raceway's first-ever NASCAR Cup Series playoff race on Sunday, Sept. 7. MADISON, Ill. (August 29, 2024) – Worldwide Technology Raceway will be a new addition to the NASCAR Xfinity Series schedule beginning in 2025, with the Madison, Illinois-based 1.25-mile oval course hosting the national series event on Saturday, September 6th. NASCAR's schedule announcement today marks the long-awaited return of the Xfinity Series to World Wide Technology Raceway for the first…
An alarming decline in condom use is putting young people's health at risk, the World Health Organisation has warned.A WHO survey of around 250,000 15-year-olds in 42 countries and territories across Europe and Canada found that condom use has declined significantly among sexually active adolescents between 2014 and 2022, putting them at significant risk of sexually transmitted infections, unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortions.Nearly one-third of 15-year-olds reported not using condoms or taking contraceptives. Sexual activity rates remained relatively stable, with 20% of boys and 15% of girls reporting having sex in 2022, but the proportion of boys who used a…
California state legislature passes artificial intelligence safety bill despite industry opposition. Reuters reported on Wednesday (August 28) that the bill needs one more vote before it goes to Governor Gavin Newsom, who has until the end of September to decide whether to sign the bill into law or veto it. Senate Bill 1047 would require AI companies to conduct safety testing for models that cost more than $100 million to develop or require a certain amount of computing power. Additionally, AI developers in California would have to establish a way to shut down their models if something goes wrong. The…