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OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway
30 Oct

OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway

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On Saturday, an Associated Press investigation revealed that OpenAI's Whisper transcription tool creates fabricated text in medical and business settings despite warnings against such use. The AP interviewed more than 12 software engineers, developers, and researchers who found the model regularly invents text that speakers never said, a phenomenon often called a “confabulation” or “hallucination” in the AI field.Upon its release in 2022, OpenAI claimed that Whisper approached “human level robustness” in audio transcription accuracy. However, a University of Michigan researcher told the AP that Whisper created false text in 80 percent of public meeting transcripts examined. Another developer, unnamed…
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Healthcare Data Insights Powered by Pentavere and Databricks
09 Oct

Healthcare Data Insights Powered by Pentavere and Databricks

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In industries like finance and retail, vast data is leveraged to generate billions in profits. Yet, in healthcare, the struggle to access critical information persists—a challenge that directly impacts patient outcomes. The core issue? Over 80% of medical data for identifying at-risk patients and delivering preventive care is unstructured. It’s hidden in physician notes, radiological images, pathology slides, PDF files, faxes, PowerPoint slides, and emails, making it difficult and costly to access and utilize. Improving Patient Outcomes with Data IntelligenceThe growth of medical devices, genetic testing, patient-generated health data, and widespread electronic health record (EHR) usage has led to a 47%…
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Medical Device Maker Nova Biomedical Is Exploring a Sale
16 Aug

Medical Device Maker Nova Biomedical Is Exploring a Sale

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Nova Biomedical is exploring a potential sale that could value it at more than $2 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said. The privately-held medical device maker is working with advisers to gauge interest from potential buyers, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing confidential information. Source link lol
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Pfizer, BioNTech Covid-Flu Combination Shot Misses on Trial Goal
16 Aug

Pfizer, BioNTech Covid-Flu Combination Shot Misses on Trial Goal

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A combination Covid-flu vaccination developed by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE missed on one of its goals in a final-stage trial, a disappointment for the companies trying to make further use of the technology that succeeded in the pandemic. The vaccine failed to show it was at least as effective as a standard shot in generating an immune response against the influenza B strain, the companies said in a statementBloomberg Terminal Friday. The shot performed better with influenza A and Covid and were comparable to other vaccinations in the trial. Source link lol
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This Code Breaker Is Using AI to Decode the Heart’s Secret Rhythms
15 Aug

This Code Breaker Is Using AI to Decode the Heart’s Secret Rhythms

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Roeland Decorte grew up in a nursing home in Belgium, where he learned to spot the subtle early signs of mental decline in small changes to how residents walked or talked. When Decorte was 11, his father, who owned and managed the care home, started waking up in the middle of the night with chest pains and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.He went to two doctors, who briefly listened to his heartbeat through their stethoscopes and diagnosed him with anxiety. But the symptoms persisted, and it was only when he underwent a full set of scans at a private…
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How IT Departments Scrambled to Address the CrowdStrike Chaos
24 Jul

How IT Departments Scrambled to Address the CrowdStrike Chaos

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Just before 1:00 am local time on Friday, a system administrator for a West Coast company that handles funeral and mortuary services woke up suddenly and noticed his computer screen was aglow. When he checked his company phone, it was exploding with messages about what his colleagues were calling a network issue. Their entire infrastructure was down, threatening to upend funerals and burials.It soon became clear the massive disruption was caused by the CrowdStrike outage. The security firm accidentally caused chaos around the world on Friday and into the weekend after distributing faulty software to its Falcon monitoring platform, hobbling…
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