artificial inteligence in healthcare
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Google Cloud, Mayo Clinic Strike Generative AI Partnership
Google Cloud and Mayo Clinic recently announced a partnership focused on generative AI — the health system will be deploying a new HIPAA-compliant Google Cloud service called Gen App Builder. The tool enables providers to create a search system for their data, equipped with conversational features powered by Google’s large language models.
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How AI Can Alleviate Clinician Burnout, Per a GE HealthCare Exec
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.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Hyro Raises $20M for Conversational AI Assistant Used by Intermountain, Novant & More
Hyro — a New York-based startup selling a conversational AI platform for providers — recently closed a $20 million Series B funding round. The platform is “mostly plug-and-play” and requires minimal effort and resources from providers, CEO Israel Krush said.
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Mayo Clinic-born Startup Scores $7.7M for Its Clinical AI Deployment Platform
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.
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Epic Integrates Suki’s Voice Assistant Into Its EHR
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.
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Meet the Startup Promising to Deliver the 1st Healthcare-focused Generative AI Model
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.
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VC Identifies 3 Startups That Will Shake Up the Future of Cancer Care
Oncology Ventures recently announced investments in three cancer startups — VivorCare, Gabbi and Health Universe. The fund’s founding partner said each company demonstrated an ability to tackle a specific problem within the cancer care space, such as enabling earlier breast cancer diagnoses and providing personalized care plans for cancer survivors.
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Healthcare Leaders Must Come Together to Mitigate ChatGPT Risks, Experts Urge
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.
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Nvidia, Medtronic Partner to Create AI Platform for Medical Devices
Nvidia and Medtronic recently announced a collaboration focused on embedding AI into medical devices. The two companies plan to create marketplace for AI applications that will allow developers and clinicians to develop their own algorithms to use on Medtronic’s medical devices.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Leveraging AI, Analytics and Medical Robotics To Alleviate Caregiver Shortage and Physician Burnout in the Post-pandemic New Normal
Emerging technologies hold the potential to protect doctors, nurses, caregivers, and first responders while driving up efficiencies for manual tasks and processes and enhancing productivity.
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As AI’s role in combating clinician burnout grows, Suki expands its voice-enabled capabilities
The voice solution Suki Assistant uses machine learning and natural language processing to accurately understand and document information and respond to physician commands, according to the company.
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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence
Increasing access and equity in healthcare through AI
While many healthcare companies have used artificial intelligence for some time now for features like machine learning interpretability required by the healthcare industry for compliance purposes, AI-based healthcare solutions also have the potential to make healthcare more affordable and more accessible, thus helping to improve equity in healthcare.
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Easing the transition home after a hospital stay: the role of augmented recovery coaching
Many patients are discharged from the hospital only to be readmitted soon afterward. But recovery coaching programs bolstered by augmented intelligence can significantly reduce readmission rates, improve a patient’s overall health and enhance their experience.
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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Predicting therapeutic outcomes in breast cancer patients: AI’s next big task
There is a need for sophisticated and accurate forecasting software tools that incorporate precision cancer care. Technology and artificial intelligence, in particular, have the potential to improve clinical decision-making.