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Generative AI may bolster digital healthcare software development

March 15, 2024 - A research team from NYU Langone Health demonstrated that the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) could accelerate the development of digital health software, according to a study published in JMIR Human Factors. The researchers noted that the digital transformation of healthcare in recent years has resulted in increasing reliance on...


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by Shania Kennedy

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by Mark Melchionna

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by Shania Kennedy

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by Jessica Kent

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Machine Learning, Real-Time Data App Rates COVID-19 Exposure Risk

by Jessica Kent

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by Jessica Kent

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NIH Provides Funding for COVID-19-Related Big Data Projects

by Jessica Kent

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is offering contracts to seven companies and academic organizations to develop COVID-19-related digital technologies using big data. For more coronavirus...

UCI Uses Campus Wi-Fi to Test COVID-19 Contact Tracing App

by Jessica Kent

The University of California, Irvine is seeking to leverage the campus’s Wi-Fi connectivity to deploy a COVID-19 contact tracing application, which could help reduce the spread of the virus. For...

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by Jessica Kent

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by Jessica Kent

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by Emily Sokol, MPH

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