With conscious and ethical use of Generative AI we can forge a future that is empathetic, innovative and can meet all our needs at the right time and place.

The revenue cycle management business is using AI tools to automate cumbersome tasks to help hospitals operate more efficiently. It’s beginning to attract the attention of major healthcare organizations.

Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.

This new report sheds light on how the benefit consultants’ role has changed and details their perspective on the shifting employer healthcare landscape.

Biopharma companies are harnessing AI tools for multiple aspects of drug development such as identifying drug development targets, modeling a drug’s effect on the body, and more.

RapidAI recently closed a $75 million Series C funding round led by Vista Credit Partners. The company offers an AI platform that helps hospital care teams triage and treat stroke patients more quickly.

Health systems need to turn their attention to technology that can improve staff retention by reducing employee burnout, according to HCA Divisional CIO Andy Draper. Here’s a look at what Parlance is doing to realize ROI with conversational AI.

Alfie Health’s $2.1 million seed funding was led by Y Combinator and Nina Capital. It included participation from Goodwater Capital, Phoenix Investment Club and several angel investors.

Many experts think technology will help mitigate healthcare’s burnout crisis and workforce shortage, but the healthcare industry still has a lot to figure out when it comes to choosing which tools to deploy and getting its workers on board with these new tools, according to a new report from GE HealthCare.

The use of LLMs in healthcare is still incredibly nascent, so many experts are calling for a safety framework to make this uncharted territory feel safer. There are still a lot of unknowns, but avoiding clinical use cases and not inputting patients’ health information seem to be the most important guardrails providers are putting around LLMs at the moment.

The use of LLMs in healthcare is still quite new, so health systems want to deploy these tools in the least risky way possible. A panel of experts explained how they think health systems can do this during MedCity’s INVEST conference — some of their advice included starting with deployment in nonclinical settings and partnering with incumbent vendors rather than startups.

Lucem Health recently closed a $7.7 million Series A funding round. The startup’s platform takes in the data required to fuel AI algorithms that give clinicians insights to improve patient care.

Suki recently announced one of its biggest partnerships to date: it is integrating its voice assistant into Epic’s EHR. The startup’s assistant can be thought of as like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa — but for doctors.

Hippocratic AI emerged from stealth, as well as announced $50 million in seed funding through a round co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz. The Palo Alto-based startup bills itself as the first large language model designed specifically for healthcare.

Although the flight check-in process is quick and easy, it lacks the intelligence and personalization that would make it truly exceptional. When I say I am optimistic that we can do better in healthcare, it’s because we are sitting on a wealth of data that lives, largely untapped, in the electronic health record

A new study found that ChatGPT might actually be quite successful in providing high-quality answers to patient questions during an era in which doctors and nurses are too busy to do so. The research evaluated two sets of answers to patient inquiries — one written by physicians, the other by ChatGPT. A panel of healthcare professionals determined that ChatGPT’s answers were significantly more detailed and empathetic.

MedCity News connected with Integra Connect’s COO, Cory Wiegert at ViVE 2023 to discuss how their new platform will go beyond the “one size fits all” approach to data curation.

The healthcare sector has been notoriously slow to adopt new technologies in the past, but ChatGPT has already begun to enter the field. Technology experts at the HIMSS conference in Chicago said that while the AI model is certainly exciting, the healthcare sector must establish an accountability framework for it’s going to address the risks of new technologies like ChatGPT moving forward.

With AI being so new, there are some best practices for companies to follow when bringing it into healthcare. This includes partnerships and understanding the shortcomings of AI, several experts said during a session at the HIMSS 2023 conference.

Glen Tullman — CEO of care navigation company Transcarent, as well as former CEO of Allscripts and Livongo — discussed what he thinks the future of healthcare will look like during the HIMSS conference in Chicago. He laid out five predictions, including an increased focus on consumer expectations and more investment in AI.

Artificial Intelligence shows great potential for behavioral healthcare, but it has a ways to go, said Taft Parsons III, vice president and chief psychiatric officer of CVS Health. He made these comments Tuesday at the HIMSS 2023 conference in Chicago.

Innovaccer launched a new product called Sara, a conversational AI assistant designed to help executives at health systems and payers make better use of their data. It allows executives can ask complex questions about their organization’s patients or members and get immediate answers on clinical, financial or operational metrics.

The $100 million deal between Transcarent and 98point6 is expected to close March 31 and is a combination of equity and cash, said Glen Tullman, CEO of Transcarent. Through the acquisition, Transcarent will gain access to 98point6’s AI-powered text-based technology, affiliated provider group and client base.

Microsoft is making a strategic investment in Paige, which is leveraging AI for cancer diagnostics and treatment. Paige will also use Microsoft Azure as its cloud provider for the Paige Platform.

Machine learning algorithms have reached a familiar milestone in the healthcare industry –in order for them to be more widely embraced by providers, different approaches to roadtesting and validating them are underway.

Via AI-enabled RPM, healthcare organizations can reduce stress and burnout for nurses and clinical staff, an especially important consideration in a time of widespread healthcare staff shortages that are expected to continue.

Alviss.ai CEO and Founder Dr. Pavel Overtchouk talks about how the company’s stroke prediction software seeks to be the first attempt to apply predictive medicine to cardiovascular interventions and heart surgery.

Northwell recently invested $3 million in Hume AI, an expressive communication research lab and AI startup. The health system is partnering with Hume to develop machine learning models designed to better understand patients’ vocal and nonverbal communications.

Advanced technologies, such as AI-guided robotics and automation, offer a potential solution to the provider shortage by freeing healthcare professionals from repetitive and time-consuming tasks and allow clinicians to focus on tasks that require a specialized touch.

In a recent webinar, Carta Healthcare CEO Matt Hollingsworth shared how his health tech business is using AI for data mining in healthcare to transform the patient experience.