What You Should Know:
- Hippocratic AI, a company building the first safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, announced the launch of its Early Access Partnership Program.
- This program brings together leading health systems and digital health companies, including OhioHealth, Roper St. Francis Healthcare, Evernow, HarmonyCares, and Guidehealth, to collaborate on developing and validating Hippocratic AI's technology.
A Shared Vision for Safer, More Accessible
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RSNA23: Nuance Pioneers Generative AI in Radiology with PowerScribe Advanced Auto Impression
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications, Inc., a Microsoft Company, announced significant advancements in its efforts to empower radiologists with the latest generative AI capabilities.
- At RSNA23, the company unveiled PowerScribe Smart Impression, a revolutionary AI-powered solution that streamlines workflows, accelerates reporting, and enhances efficiency for radiologists amidst growing staffing shortages and clinician burnout.
PowerScribe Smart Impression: Enhancing Reporting
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IBM and Boehringer Ingelheim Partner on Generative AI for Transformative Antibody Therapeutics
What You Should Know:
- Boehringer Ingelheim and IBM announced a collaboration to leverage IBM's foundation model technologies for the discovery of novel candidate antibodies in drug development.
- The partnership will focus on utilizing IBM's pre-trained AI models to generate new human antibody sequences with desired properties, such as affinity, specificity, and developability. These models will be further fine-tuned on Boehringer Ingelheim's proprietary data to enhance their accuracy
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5 Egregious Virtual Assistant Fails and How to Overcome Them
Three phenomena conspire to drive healthcare organizations towards digitization: 1) patient demand for the same online experience as other consumer sites (e.g., Amazon, Open Table); 2) manual processes contributing to overextended staff made worse by labor shortfalls; and 3) unrelenting need to control costs, optimize revenue and streamline workflows.
But one primary barrier stands in the way: the historically poor performance of chatbots.
Let’s face it. Every single one of us has found
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71% of Consumers Believe Generative AI Can Revolutionize Healthcare
What You Should Know:
A recent survey conducted by Deloitte's Center for Health Solutions (Center) revealed a growing acceptance and optimism among consumers regarding the potential of Generative AI to revolutionize healthcare. Over half of the respondents (53%) believe that generative AI could improve access to healthcare, while 46% expressed confidence in its ability to make healthcare more affordable.
Generative AI: A Reliable Source of Information
The survey further
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Elsevier Health and OpenEvidence Partner to Unveil ClinicalKey AI
What You Should Know:
- Elsevier Health, a global leader in medical information and data analytics, has announced a strategic partnership with OpenEvidence, a company specializing in artificial intelligence for medicine, to develop ClinicalKey AI, a next-generation clinical decision support tool that combines the most recent and reputable evidence-based medical content with generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help physicians at the point of care.
- The vast amount of complex data
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Healthcare Embraces Generative AI: 70% of Organizations Actively Explore its Revenue Cycle Potential
What You Should Know:
- AKASA, a leading developer of AI-powered automation for the revenue cycle, released new survey results showing that more than 70 percent of healthcare organizations are actively considering the use of generative AI.
- In the same survey of more than 250 CFOs and financial leaders at health systems and hospitals across the U.S., nearly 60% percent of respondents indicated they are actively considering these new technologies for their revenue cycle
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Ambience AI Powers End-to-End Epic Integration at John Muir Health
What You Should Know:
- John Muir Health (JMH) and Ambience Healthcare have announced a collaboration to launch a generative AI platform that is fully integrated with Epic's electronic health record (EHR).
- The integration will enable Ambience's AI medical scribe and suite of generative AI products to read from and write information directly to Epic on behalf of and under the oversight of JMH clinicians.
AI Integration with Epic for Enhanced Clinician Experience
Clinicians at JMH
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MIT Spun Out Layer Health Launches with $4M to Build the AI Layer for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Layer Health, a healthcare AI company spun out of MIT, has been launched with $4M in funding from investors such as GV (Google Ventures), General Catalyst, and Inception Health.
- The company is focused on solving the information problem in healthcare by using AI to quickly perform any clinical, administrative, or research task that requires chart review from unstructured data.
Building the AI layer for healthcare — powered by large language models.
Layer
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Using Generative AI to Streamline Clinician Workflow and Reduce Burnout
Clinician stress rose significantly during the pandemic but has remained high even as COVID-19-related patient volumes and illness severity have subsided. In 2021, 62.8% of U.S. physicians exhibited burnout; this year, it is 62%.
Contributing factors include heavy patient loads, too many administrative tasks, and rising clinician shortages. Many physicians work 50 hours a week: seeing up to 20 patients a day, spending an average of 4.5 hours entering electronic health records (EHR
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