Healthcare AI News 11/8/23

News

OpenAI announces significant new ChatGPT features at its first developer conference, most significantly the ability for users to create a tailored version of ChatGPT – called, somewhat confusingly, a GPT – to perform specific tasks. User-created GPTs can be shared or sold via a GPT Store that OpenAI will launch later this month.

Samsung introduces Gauss, its generative AI model.

Business

Smart stethoscope maker Eko Health earns UK regulatory approval for its AI-enabled tool for the evaluation of heart failure, valve disease, and atrial fibrillation, which Imperial College London will deploy to 100 GPs who will use it in conjunction with the company’s digital stethoscope. The system is sold in the US under the name Sensora.

Agamon Health  will work with Mayo Clinic to extend its offering into cardiology, where it will enhance patient adherence to follow-up.

Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and other high-profile investors launch Cercle. The company uses AI to support women’s health, especially within fertility care, and organizes unstructured medical data into a standard format to help clinicians develop personalized treatment plans.

Israel-based Eleos Health, whose automated scribing solution turns behavioral health conversations into documentation and clinical insights, raises $40 million in a Series B funding round.

Research

Researchers find that ChatGPT does a reasonably good job in answering consumer questions about lifestyle-related conditions, making it appropriate for patients who are waiting on a doctor’s appointment.

Other

Experts in India write that integrating AI into India’s healthcare ecosystem could significantly enhance service delivery and patient care, though it requires overcoming challenges related to data, policy, and infrastructure.

Adweek reports that a hospital shut down its marketing team over compliance problems after it tested ChatGPT.

A Washington Post opinion piece by Leana Wen, MD, MSc describes Kaiser Permanente’s use of AI to flag patients whose condition is deteriorating using near real-time data whose patterns might otherwise be overlooked. She says that KP’s key difference is that it sends the alerts to an offsite team of nurses to decide whether the hospital’s rapid response time should be deployed. The original study she references was published in November 2020.

CNN says that MSN.com and Microsoft Start are featuring bizarre, inaccurate stories that are generated by AI instead of the editors it has fired. The company published an article about a woman’s death that it lifted from The Guardian, then added a “pathetic, disgusting” poll that invited readers to speculate on whether she died by murder, accident, or suicide. One of the laid off editors says the company features stories from small, unreliable sources that provide little information about their ownership or editorial standards. The story above that called a deceased NBA player “useless” was speculated to have resulted from AI that translated the original source’s article from English to another language and back again to hide plagiarism.

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