Healthcare AI News 1/10/24

News

OpenAI launches the GPT Store, which allows users to distribute – and eventually charge for – customized GPTs that they have created. The company also announces ChatGPT Team, a $25 per-user per-month secure workspace for teams of up to 149 people that supports GPT sharing. The company lists Boston Children’s Hospital as a early adopter, which says that it has used Team to pilot GPTs for productivity and collaboration.

OpenAI announces that wearables vendor Whoop has incorporated GPT-4 into its app that offers personalized fitness and health coaching related to heart rate, workouts, sleep, and stress. The Whoop 4.0 device is free for those who sign up for a $239 per year subscription.

Microsoft changes the layout of its keyboard for the first time in 30 years by adding a Copilot key that invokes the AI assistant.

Business

The Mayo Clinic will use computing chips and systems from Cerebras to develop its own AI models, such as summarizing a patient’s medical records, analyzing diagnostic images, and reviewing genomic data.

Sword, which offers digital health solutions and services for pain prevention and treatment, says that it delivered 1.5 million AI Care sessions in 2023. Sword says that it developed and patented the world’s first AI care solution in 2018.

ShifMed launches ShiftAdvisor, an AI-powered solution that optimizes nurse shift scheduling by considering preferred days, times, pay, and locations.

Accenture invests in Israel-based QuantHealth, which uses AI to simulate drug clinical trials in the cloud.

Innovaccer announces Sara, an AI scribing assistant that transcribes, summarizes, and analyzes visit conversations to create SOAP notes.

Direct-to-consumer drug marketing technology vendor Swoop enhances its AI drug adherence tool to allow drug companies to market their products to patients and their doctors before a diagnosis has been made. They don’t say how they do that, but its other products create custom market segments using the de-identified data of 300 million people that it gets from Datavant and Epsilon.

Other

Vanderbilt University Medical Center lists its AI accomplishments in clinical and research settings:

• Running a 10-physician pilot of Nuance DAX Copilot to create encounter notes from ambient listening.
• Offering researchers a VUMC-created, GUI-based version of OpenAI’s large language module, which is HIPAA certified under VUMC’s business associate agreement with Microsoft. VUMC has disabled access to the public version of ChatGPT on its networks.
• Creating the IQueue platform to optimize chemotherapy infusion appointments.
• Developing a stroke patient evaluation tool that delivers quantified and color-coded CT perfusion maps.
• Creating its own AI application to predict elective surgical case volume.

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