"... less than 1/3 of studies have addressed the ethical (32.8%) and patient safety (32.1%) implications of clinical LLM integration, [...] only 16.1% have addressed the regulatory gaps..."

Stark contrast with explosive adoption in Chinese hospitals in early '25. 🤯

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Digital Health Trends 2024 report from IQVIA is helpful to make sense of the 560% increase in digital therapeutics ( #DTx) btw '21 and '24. Striking visuals on the demise of prescription DTx products that launched early into the U.S. market:

www.iqvia.com/insights/the...

#healthtech #digitalhealth

The dominance of private funding for AI research is evident across different metrics, and became more acute in recent years; as of 2021, industry accounted for 96% of the biggest AI models, up from 11% in 2010, according to Brookings.

www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

I couldn't replicate the "research activity plateau" signal; the report doesn't detail how this is calculated, and I wonder if the specific search terms used could explain the finding.

Graph below is my own, using .csv data from Pubmed:

'24-'22 vs '21-'19 deaccel, yes, but... plateau?

Rock Health's Innovation Maturity Curve tracks the evolving state of readiness for different #healthtech #digitalhealth innovations combining:

1. Research publication volume
2. Venture funding
3. (Industry) Partnership activity

On #healthAI, the report says... [🧵]:

rockhealth.com/insights/hea...

Encouraging results, yet many questions remain. Not discussed in paper, but I wonder if the same factors that facilitate chatbot adoption (esp for younger users), like personalization and human-like interaction are the ones that might induce “chatbot addiction”. Acceptable trade-off?
#DigitalHealth

Depends on who you want to talk fluently with: there’s Spanish… and then there’s Chilean Spanish…