Healthcare AI News 9/20/23

News

Oracle announces Clinical Digital Assistant, a voice-first mobile app for clinicians that responds to voice commands, uses ambient listening to generate clinical notes from conversations, allows creating notes and clinical documentation from voice narration, and creates notes and chart details.

Ochsner Health is testing the use of Epic’s new feature that creates draft responses to MyChart patient messages that physicians then review.

Drug and medical technology maker Johnson & Johnson describes how it is using AI:

• Applying AI to diagnostic tests and connected medical devices to detect disease earlier.
• Driving drug discovery.
• Analyzing de-identified patient datasets to identify clinical research research sites, to bring trials to patients outside of major medical centers, and to diversify trials.
• Analyzing demand and inventory trends to prioritize drug shipments.
• Creating a “highlight real” of surgical video that allows surgeons to perform post-case analysis that can be used for teaching.

In Japan, commercial insurer Sompo – which is the country’s largest nursing home operator with 301 facilities and 58 day centers — will install TytoCare’s remote medical examination technology in its facilities.

Business

Denmark-based Corti, whose voice assistant system listens to doctor-patient conversations and makes AI-powered suggestions based on millions of other such conversations, raises $60 million in a Series B funding round.

Research

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will fund and build a 1,000 GPU computing cluster that will allow researchers to study how cells behave in health or disease

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