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September 18, 2024 Healthcare AI News 2 Comments

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An 18-month study by Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital finds that its use of the Chartwatch AI system that predicts patient deterioration was associated with a 26% drop in unexpected deaths. The system was developed with startup Signal 1.

Duke Health will partner with SAS to apply analytics, AI, and machine learning to healthcare operations.

A survey of 1,000 UK-based family doctors finds that one-fifth are already using AI in their clinical practice despite a lack of official guidance or work policies. About one-fourth of respondents report using AI to generate after-visit documentation, reviewing possible diagnoses, and suggesting treatments.


Business

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Precision medicine technology vendor Tempus AI announces the beta launch of Olivia, an AI-enabled app that organizes the user’s personal health information.

Healthcare AI startup Evidium chooses Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to develop and train its AI models.

The director of professional services of virtual care solution provider OnCall Health by Qualifacts describes how a self-developed ChatGPT-powered form builder tool is saving the cost of at least one FTE. The tool, which took one afternoon to develop, allows customers to create their own forms that ChatGPT then turns into JSON code that the company’s platform can read.


Research

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Oregon Health & Science University researchers determine that large language models outperform up to 75% of students on a test from an introductory course in biomedical and health informatics. The LLM outperformed students in answering questions quickly and with proper grammar and spelling. The authors express concern that such assessments could be gamed, especially for online courses whose exams are taken without in-person proctoring.


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Yale New Haven Health says that it has 50 AI projects underway and is already using it to predict patient outcomes, offer guidance for therapy selection, automate documentation, and prioritize radiology cases.

Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison calls for “omnipresent AI cameras” that maintain civil order by making people aware that they are being watched. Ellison says we’re already partly there with ever-present security cameras, police body cameras, and video technology running on doorbells and vehicle dashboards. He also says that high-speed police chases are unnecessary when autonomous drones could follow a car anywhere. He didn’t mention whether that concept could apply to the products of Oracle Health.

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I ran across a weird but cool AI app called SocialAI. It’s like a private version of Twitter, except that you will instantly gain thousands of adoring followers that are actually AI bots of whatever type you choose – thinkers, trolls, jokesters, etc. – that will dutifully and realistically interact to whatever you post. It is compelling, entertaining, and perhaps useful for people who are stressed, lonely, creatively blocked, or reflective. My first post was “I’m bored – tell me something motivating” and the responses were realistic and generally useful, especially for folks whose primary social interaction is via keyboard. Imagine (positively and negatively) if the bots were programmed to support someone who has a significant medical condition or who is fretting over an impending medical decision. I posted that I was stressed at work and the responses were empathetic and actionable.


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Currently there are "2 comments" on this Article:

  1. “Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison calls for “omnipresent AI cameras” that maintain civil order by making people aware that they are being watched”

    Love how that one’s just casually in there. Yale doing standard AI medical stuff, incredibly dystopian statement from major HIT and general tech player, finish up with a more standard-if-arguably-dystopian bit of app.

    (not a HIStalk criticism, just trying to find something amusing to distract myself from, uh, that statement)

    Hoo boy.

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