Healthcare AI News 12/13/23

News

Elon Musk’s AI firm XAI releases its Grok chatbot to Premium+ subscribers of his X social media platform. Premium+ costs $16 per month and in addition to Grok access, includes editing of X posts, the ability to write longer posts, reply prioritization, the blue user checkmark, and removal of ads.

The bioinformatics department of Yale’s medical school launches a 16-week, $5,000 online non-credit certificate program for medical professionals titled “Medical Software and Medical Artificial Intelligence.”

Emory University’s two-day symposium on healthcare AI draws 450 attendees.

Google releases MedLM, two medically tuned Med-PaLM models that are being piloted by HCA Healthcare for drafting physician notes and by BenchSci for biomarker classification. MedLM is available to US users of Google Cloud who are whitelisted through its Vertex AI.

Business

The Federal Trade Commission and UK regulators will review any anti-trust issues that may have resulted from Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI.

Drug maker Sanofi invests $140 million in AI-powered molecule development startup Aqemia.

Darena Solutions, Leidos, and SLI Compliance launch a certification program for AI applications that are built using SMART on FHIR.

Children’s Health (TX) rolls out a generative AI solution from Pieces Technologies that creates a 100-word summary of a patient’s visit using information extracted from Epic.

Other

Half of surveyed nursing students use generative AI tools to complete their assignments or tests, but just one-third of them think that it’s OK for colleges to use AI to make admission decisions.

The owner of Sports Illustrated fires the publication’s CEO, COO, media president, and corporate counsel for unstated reasons, two weeks after it was caught using AI-generated author bios and photos on published articles. The company blamed a third-party content vendor that insists that its articles were written by humans. 

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