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The gathering buzz for ChatGPT in health care

It feels similar ChatGPT is making headlines each day: The programme has generated immense involvement — including a pledged multi-billion dollar concern from Microsoft — for its quality to constitute astir thing it’s asked to constitute and to reply questions. Users travel up with a dependable drawstring of caller ways to enactment the AI chatbot to the test. And medicine is nary exception. So far, it’s passed a mentation of the U.S. medical licensing exam and been utilized to chart diligent information and draft appeals to security denials. But what limitations and risks person those experiments exposed? And wherever mightiness the technology be utilized in health care going forward? Can it rescue physicians from rote tasks, oregon should it beryllium utilized to tackle analyzable technological questions? I talked to experts astir the technology, its risks, and its imaginable successful a caller heavy dive retired this greeting — read here. 

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Long-awaited greenlight for artificial pancreas app

Earlier this week, the FDA cleared the Tidepool Loop automated insulin dosing app, which allows radical with Type 1 diabetes to power their insulin pumps from their Apple Watch oregon iPhone. Tidepool, a nonprofit, developed the Loop app based connected a DIY task by patients who exploited loopholes successful the bundle of their insulin pumps. The app and dosing algorithm enactment with immoderate definite integrated continuous glucose show and pump, allowing patients much choice. Tidepool said it’s moving to cement agreements with definite CGM and pump makers to marque their devices compatible. STAT’s Katie Palmer has antecedently reported on Dexcom’s  partnership with Tidepool to see their components with the Loop platform, arsenic good arsenic Tidepool’s information partnerships with Insulet and Medtronic.

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Pharma’s latest digital health deal

Yesterday, Roche and Sysnav Healthcare announced a caller concern to usage Sysnav’s question tracking technology to show illness progression successful respective neurological disorders. Sysnav’s question trackers, which are somewhat similar the motion-capture technology used successful the movie manufacture than the inertial sensors successful smartphones, let patients with neurological disorders to measurement centrifugal relation during their regular lives. The company, which has 2 wearable devices called ActiMyo and Syde, was the archetypal to suffice a integer endpoint with the European Medical Association and aims to make much integer endpoints for objective trials successful the partnership.

Fitbits for tracking aggregate sclerosis

Speaking of question trackers, determination are fewer bully tools for radical with aggregate sclerosis to support tabs connected their activity. The options tin beryllium costly, and not particularly consumer-friendly. But that information could beryllium particularly utile to researchers and patients with the progressive disease, which tin origin tremors and a nonaccomplishment of centrifugal control. In a new paper, researchers study connected the aboriginal results from a imaginable solution: Fitbits. The researchers gave a Fitbit Inspire HR to 45 radical with mean mobility impairment owed to MS, and past tested however good it compared to self-reported measurement counts, clip spent physically active, and more. They besides compared it to information from a wearable made by Actigraph for research. The results, portion not afloat successful statement crossed each metrics, suggest the Fitbit mightiness beryllium usable arsenic a carnal enactment tracking instrumentality for patients with mild oregon mean MS.

A propulsion for reproductive health data privacy

California representatives Sara Jacobs and Anna Eshoo introduced the Secure Access for Essential Reproductive (SAFER) Health Act this week. The bill, rolled retired successful designation of the 50th day of Roe v. Wade, would prevent health care providers from disclosing abortion- oregon gestation loss-related health information without diligent consent. Under the decades-old diligent privateness instrumentality HIPAA, if there’s a warrant, tribunal order, oregon subpoena for the merchandise of a patient’s reproductive health records, past a health provider could beryllium required to hand them over. It’s not wide it could garner the enactment to pass.

New backing for AI and triage

• • Atomic AI announced a $35 cardinal Series A backing circular led by Playground Global on Wednesday. The South San Francisco institution is focused connected utilizing AI to amended recognize the operation of RNA, which my workfellow Jonathan Wosen describes arsenic looking “a spot similar a representation of an airdrome terminal.” Read much here.
  • Pearl Health, a institution that uses information subject to assistance superior attraction providers triage patients who are astir apt to request care, announced contiguous that it raised $75 cardinal successful a Series B backing round, led by a16z and Viking Global Investors.
  • Yesterday, Zócalo Health announced Sarah Lopez will beryllium the company’s chief medical officer. Previously, Lopez was an exigency doc and diligent information serviceman at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Zócalo Health, founded successful 2021, chiefly serves Latino patients and operates successful California and Texas.