Healthcare AI News 9/6/23

News

Google Chief Health Officer Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc says in NEJM Catalyst that large language models will give patients “a more personalized and anticipatory experience” and that medicine needs to change to meet consumer expectations for a mobile-first digital health experience.

A hospital in Israel declares that an AI app saved a patient’s life when it detected brain bleeding from their CT scan and alerted doctors, who called him to return immediately for additional scans and surgery. The app was developed by Viz.ai.

Research

A study finds that consumer voice assistants such as Alexa as well as ChatGPT delivered poor results when asked layperson questions about performing CPR, with the authors suggesting that bystanders should call 911 instead of asking Siri. The voice assistants gave “grossly inappropriate” responses that often weren’t related to CPR and almost always failed to recommend calling emergency services.

National Taiwan University Hospital develops an ultrasound device that uses AI to assess a person’s risk of sleep apnea in 15 minutes instead of an overnight sleep study. The machine diagnosed sleep apnea with 95% accuracy in requiring patients to breathe a few times while awake. At-risk patients are then referred for traditional polysomnography.

Other

OSF HealthCare develops an AI model that predicts an inpatient’s death at admission using 13 commonly available data elements, allowing clinicians to work with the identified patients to document their end-of-life wishes.

Two teens launch Vytal.ai, whose app uses the camera of a laptop or mobile device to assess brain health using a 30-second gaze tracking exercise. The high school students have developed use cases that include early detection of neurological problems, clinical trials, and concussion screening. Co-founder, CEO, and CTO Rohan Kalahasty, who is 18, has spent three years as a researcher in Harvard’s ophthalmology AI lab and has performed AI research at MIT, while co-founder, COO, and CFO Sai Mattapali, aged 17, has spent time as an intern in both neurophysiology and business growth.

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