Can ChatGPT Diagnose Your Condition? Not yet

ChatGPT, a sophisticated chatbot driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technology, has been increasingly used in health care contexts, one of which is assisting patients in self-diagnosing before seeking medical help. Although it seems very useful at first glance, AI may cause more harm than good to the patient if it is not accurate in its diagnosis and recommendations.

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Siemens Healthineers to Equip Braunschweig Municipal Hospital's Central Laboratory

Siemens Healthineers and Braunschweig Municipal Hospital signed a 10-year contract for a new diagnostics and analysis center at the hospital. As general contractor, Siemens Healthineers will supply all the medical technology for a the new, highly automated interdisciplinary center and operate it across manufacturers.

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DMEA Call for Papers: Connecting the World of Digital Health

9 - 11 April 2024, Berlin, Germany.
The call for congress papers at DMEA 2024, Europe's leading event for digital health, is open now. Candidates are invited to submit their abstracts for the DMEA congress on the DMEA website by 17 November.

Healthcare meets digitalisation: DMEA - Connecting Digital Health will be gathering everyone aiming to drive digitalisation in healthcare on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds.

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Philips Supports Tampere Heart Hospital in Finland to Decarbonize its Clinical Operations

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the completion of a comprehensive hospital-wide analysis of Tampere Heart Hospital - Tampere University Hospital's (Finland) environmental sustainability, including a deep assessment of the interventional cardiology space and evaluation of its carbon footprint.

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Telehealth Supports Retention in Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Starting buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder through telehealth was associated with an increased likelihood of staying in treatment longer compared to starting treatment in a non-telehealth setting, according to a new study analyzing Medicaid data from 2019-2020 in Kentucky and Ohio.

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Immersive Virtual Reality Seems to Ease Cancer Patients' Pain and Distress

Immersive virtual reality - digital technology that allows a person to experience being physically present in a non-physical world - seems to ease the pain and distress felt by patients with cancer, suggests a pooled data analysis of the available evidence published in BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care.

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UK Needs AI Legislation to Create Trust so Companies can 'Plug AI into British Economy'

The British government should offer tax breaks for businesses developing AI-powered products and services, or applying AI to their existing operations, to "unlock the UK's potential for augmented productivity", according to a new University of Cambridge report.

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Digital Health AI & Data 2023: The show Dedicated to Harnessing the Power of Healthcare AI, Data and Analytics

30 - 31 October 2023, London, UK.
A data-driven revolution is gathering pace across healthcare, spanning health providers, life sciences, researchers and start-ups. Allying the explosion of health data, with transformational AI and analytics tools, techniques and capabilities, is reshaping our future healthcare.

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A Comprehensive Survey of ChatGPT and its Applications Across Domains

Recent advancements in natural language processing (NLP) have ushered in a new era with the emergence of powerful language models, most notably the Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) series, which includes substantial language models such as ChatGPT (GPT-3.5 and GPT-4).

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When Digital Transformation Hits the Reality of Healthcare at Full Speed - Chat GPT can do Medicine

13 - 16 November 2023, Düsseldorf, Germany.
In recent years, digitalisation has entered almost every area of daily life. Healthcare is not an exception. As early as the mid-80s, when the history of health IT was really getting started, the internationally leading medical trade fair MEDICA in Düsseldorf featured intensive coverage of the issue in its programme. In the beginning, these were offers related to hardware and software for so-called "office EDP".

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