HIMSS

In this week’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb highlights her conference coverage from CES, HIMSS, AAOS and LSI including Exec Chats with Gary Guthart, CEO of Intuitive Surgical, and Arcadia’s chief strategy officer Aneesh Chopra. Brian Bossetta highlights a recently FDA-cleared alert system that sends vital signs to clinicians. Elizabeth Orr discusses FDA warning letters sent to Exer Labs for exceeding marketing claims under what is allowed under the device’s 510(k) clearance. Shubham Singh discusses how Roche's unveiling of its next-generation sequencing (NGS) prototype challenges Illumina. The SBX technology is set to compete directly with Illumina’s NovaSeq and NextSeq platforms.

Medtech Insight sat down with Arcadia's chief strategy officer Aneesh Chopra to discuss interoperability, industry standards and the future of health care data and AI.

During a panel discussion at HIMSS, experts highlighted the shift in digital health funding in 2024 with “mega funds” dominating the space and big tech companies developing foundational models that large health care customers use to address multiple use cases. They noted, however, there is ample room for smaller companies to develop technologies adjacent to incumbent systems.

Google Cloud launches new generative AI capabilities in Vertex AI for health care, allowing clinicians to gain access to multimodal data such as images and data to help with decision-making.

Dragon Copilot combines and extends the capabilities of Microsoft Dragon Medical One voice dictation and DAX ambient listening to help clinicians streamline their entire workflow. It will be available in the US and Canada in May, followed by the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands.