Healthcare AI News 10/2/24

News

Microsoft releases a major enhancement to Copilot that adds conversational capabilities, a virtual news presenter that will read headlines, webpage history recall, and the ability to answer questions about the text and images on a browser page.

FDA will hold the first meeting of its Digital Health Advisory Committee on November 20-21, which will address lifecycle considerations for AI-enabled medical devices. The session will be available via webcast with no registration required.

Business

Claimable launches an AI-powered appeals platform to provide documentation to help patients protest health insurer medication coverage denials for 60 major treatments. The service costs $39.95 per appeal and the company submits appeals via fax and first class mail. It claims that 80% of its appeals are accepted and most cases are resolved in less than 10 days.

WellSpan Health uses Hippocratic AI to develop an AI-powered conversational agent that contacts patients by telephone to close gaps in care.

GE HealthCare closes its $51 million cash acquisition of the ultrasound AI business of Intelligent Ultrasound Group.

Research

Clinicians compare the usefulness of OpenAI’s o1-preview, which features enhanced reasoning, to ChatGPT GPT-4 for medical AI:

• The new version can perform advanced, step by step reasoning. The effect on diagnostic accuracy has not yet been studied.
• o1-preview is slower.
• GPT-4 is good for patient communication and medical advice, while the new version is better at complex reasoning, genetic analysis, and research. The value of those changes for specific medical specialties has not yet been studied.
• GPT-4 is more prone to hallucinate.
• GPT-4 is better at human-like conversation.
• While transparency is limited with both versions, the new version provides chain of thought for double checking.
• GPT-4 is trained to provide information that is broad but not deep, while o1-preview applies PhD-level reasoning in physics, chemistry, and biology.

A ChatGPT review of 725 websites of clinics that promote “complementary” and “alternative” medicine finds that 97% contain false or misleading claims, including some that relate to cancer treatment.

Other

A woman is told by the ED doctor who sent her home that her face pain and drooping was not concerning gets a second (and correct) opinion from ChatGPT, which advised her to seek immediate medical attention for what was possible Bell’s palsy. She want back to the ED, where the doctor agreed with the diagnosis and started treatment immediately.

A study of LinkedIn and Glassdoor job postings that mention AI finds that Mount Sinai Health System is #6.

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