Healthcare AI News 8/23/23

News

In China, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission proposes prohibiting the use of AI by online services to generate prescriptions, make diagnoses, and deliver treatment. The commission also plans to take a supervisory role for medical institutions that run online services.

Business

Microsoft lists its AI collaboration efforts with Epic as showcased at UGM:

• Note summarization for clinicians to speed up documentation.
• Nuance DAX Express embedded in Hyperdrive and Haiku.
• Providing medical coding staff with suggestions based on the clinical documentation.
• Adding NLP queries and interactive analysis to SlicerDicer.

Genesis Therapeutics, which hopes to advance its AI-discovered drug pipeline to clinical development, raises $200 million in a Series B funding round.

Suki integrates its AI-powered clinical documentation assistant with Cerner, adding to its previously announced integration with Epic.

Research

A Mass General Brigham study finds that ChatGPT delivered 72% accuracy in making diagnoses and care management decisions throughout a patient’s complete case, performing equally well in primary care and emergency settings. ChatGPT struggled with differential diagnosis, demonstrating the value of physician expertise at the beginning of the encounter, where a small amount of presenting information is used to consider possible diagnoses.

Other

Three physicians say in a Time opinion piece that healthcare AI could create a “nightmare scenario” where AI tools block patients from talking to humans for reassurance or to offer input in care decisions. Studies have shown that AI is perceived by some as more empathetic and compassionate than doctors, which means it’s time to hit the “reset button” on how doctors approach patient communication and teach those skills to medical students and residents.

Dermatologists describe how ChatGPT could be used to support rural dermatology practices, including creating disease-specific educational patient handouts at appropriate readability levels, generating procedural note templates, and creating drafts of prior authorization requests.

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