Artificial intelligence and machine learning have widespread potential in healthcare, from diagnostic analysis and clinical decision support to data management and patient engagement. On today's episode, GSR Ventures partners Sunny Kumar and Justin Norden join host Laura Lovett for a far-reaching discussion of what they're seeing in the world of healthcare AI.

Talking points:

• What investors are looking at/for in AI
• Low hanging fruits and hard problems
• AI is not currently about replacing doctors
• AI’s potential for mental health
• How AI can make medicine more, not less personal
• The lack of innovation in clinical trials and how it’s changing
• Culture clash in healthcare and startups
• Regulatory updates and reimbursement challenges
• The present and future of digital therapeutics
• Health equity and value-based care
• Driving efficiencies in care and looking for the next telemedicine

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Healthcare innovation, digital health rake in big investment dollars in Q3

Q&A: Deloitte's Peter Micca on the digital health investment boom, going public and value-based care

AI development must be guided by ethics, human wellbeing and responsible innovation

How CIOs are prioritizing AI investments for the next 5 years

AI and the tradeoff between fairness and efficacy: 'You actually can get both'

The American Telemedicine Association and other business groups want Congress to continue allowing telehealth services to be treated as an excepted benefit, and senior assistance company Papa raises $150 million in Series D funding.

Health care employee well-being is often touted as a business necessity, and strong evidence confirms that it’s smart business. Accenture’s multi-industry “Care to do Better” study shows how it unlocks workers’ full potential, with significant positive business impact. The study references the Accenture “Net Better Off” framework, which quantifies human well-being in terms of six dimensions. Learn how human pressures affect your health workforce and uncover our four suggestions to leave your staff (and business) better off.

After its rapid adoption during the pandemic, virtual care is here to stay. Going forward, providers must balance in-person and virtual care to provide a seamless experience for patients along every step of the care journey.

Lisa Johnson, managing director, Tegria, and Srini Surendranath, Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Andor Health, discuss how understanding the patient journey is vital for developing workflows that incorporate both virtual and in-person care.

Recently, the HIMSSCast team had a chance to sit down with a wide range of healthcare innovators at HLTH in Boston to discuss what they saw as the major trends shaping the evolution of heathcare. One that came up over and over again was value-based care. We talked to notables including Jonathan Bush, Glenn Tullman, Toyin Ajayi and many more about how changing how we pay for healthcare is opening the door to radically re-imagine how we provide it.

This is the first in a series of "Industry Voices" episodes where we'll feature a wide range of guests speaking on a single theme.

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'You can’t navigate your way through a broken system': Transcarent's Glen Tullman on healthcare cost, quality

'Omnichannel' is the new watchword as big tech, retail get serious about healthcare

How retail giant Walmart plans to disrupt the healthcare industry

Retail giant Best Buy snaps up remote monitoring company Current Health

Innovation can increase the value of employer-sponsored care

Firefly Health launches virtual-first health plan for small and mid-sized employers

Cityblock rakes in $400M for platform focused on Medicaid and low-income populations and other digital health fundings

Modernizing Medicare and Medicaid means addressing the affordability crisis

A shortage of nurses and other healthcare workers continue to hurt hospitals' financial performance, and senior living communities and health systems will soon be able to use the Alexa voice assistant at scale.

Democrats push for healthcare provisions in reconciliation bill; Google unveils mobile version of Care Studio. Plus: Providence CIO touts benefits of AI and machine learning.

Links to the stories:

CBO estimates $553 billion price tag for healthcare provisions in reconciliation package

Google rolls out mobile app version of Care Studio

How CIOs are prioritizing AI investments for the next 5 years

In the final podcast in our Virtual Care paradigm series, we look at how virtual care for mental health can benefit not only patients but also physicians themselves, who face many barriers to mental health care and as a result suffer from high levels of stress, burnout, and even suicide. To discuss this issue and its potential solution, host Jonah Comstock is joined by Kavi Misri, founder and CEO of Rose Health, and Dr. Matthew Peters, chief medical officer at Rose Health and an associate professor and practicing physician at Johns Hopkins.

Talking points:

• How the Rose Health system works and why it was developed
• Mental health assessment scores and why they help
• Using the Rose Health system to combat physician burnout
• Issues that arise when clinicians seek mental health treatment
• Physician burnout in this pandemic moment
• Virtual care and how it can help
• Fitting mental health into the busy physician lifestyle
• The vicious cycle of staff shortages and burnout
• Positive indications from Rose’s early efforts

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Brigham and Women's pilots new program to support provider mental health

Burnout in the Age of COVID-19, a Healthcare IT News special project

Gaining trust starts with knowing the patient, provider (this episode's companion HIMSS TV episode)

Digital therapeutic 'HelloBetter Stress and Burnout' available to 50 million adults in Germany

Clinicians share technology’s two-sided effect on burnout

Here  why Fast Interoperability Health Resources, or FHIR, is the new agent of change in healthcare.  Organizations around the world are capitalizing on FHIR adoption, using the new data standard to kickstart their legacy modernization and digital transformation journey.

The CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program is one of the first lifestyle and behavior-based interventions to be proven, in a large clinical study, to be more effective than a comparable drug (in this case metformin). Digital implementations can make the DPP more accessible and more scalable, and a number of digital health companies have been tackling this for the last few years.

Fruit Street Health is one of those companies and its CEO Laurence Girard joins host Jonah Comstock on today's HIMSSCast to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and successes his company has had in this space.

Talking points:

• A brief history of the CDC Diabetes Prevention Program
• Why Fruit Street and others are taking the DPP digital
• Challenges and opportunities of virtual DPP implementation
• Ongoing reimbursement challenges with Medicare and Medicaid
• Advantages of group-based programs via video chats
• Questions and misconceptions about scalability
• Making sure pre-diabetes interventions work for everyone
• Cultural food expectations and combatting food deserts, both through partnerships
• Direct-to-consumer DPP outreach
• Are DPP programs (in-person and virtual) making a dent in the problem?

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Fruit Street to deliver CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program through live video classes

Fruit Street Health raises $3 million in doctors-only round

UK passes on Apple, Google's Bluetooth contact tracing tool, Fruit Street Health launches COVID-19 telemedicine platform and more digital health news briefs

AHIP, CDC to partner on diabetes prevention

Medicare to reimburse for Diabetes Prevention Program, including Omada's digital version

Diabetes Prevention Program under the Affordable Care Act is working, HHS Secretary Burwell says

American Medical Association pushes public, private health plans to cover National Diabetes Prevention Program

CMS calls for extending Diabetes Prevention Program into Medicare, proposes new doc fees to boost chronic care