Healthcare AI News 10/23/24

News

Amazon One Medical launches AI tools for its 1Life proprietary EHR – ambient documentation, a summarized medical history, draft responses to patient messages, and workflow routing.

Anthropic releases a beta developer version of Claude’s API that adds “computer use” capability, in which developers can program interaction with a user’s computer such as looking at a screen, moving the cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text.

Google Cloud announces GA of Vertex AI Search for Healthcare along with new features of its Healthcare Data Engine.

GE HealthCare announces CareIntellect for Oncology, which summarizes clinical reports, flags deviations from a patient’s treatment plan, and identifies relevant clinical trials.

The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) publishes draft frameworks of how it will certify independent quality assurance labs and standardize their test results into what it compares to a nutrition label for AI product performance and safety.

Aidoc and Nvidia will co-develop a framework for integrating AI into clinical workflows.

Business

Ozarks Healthcare will integrate Avo’s AI clinical decision support with its Meditech EHR. The tools include scribing, chart summary and care guide, and the ability for clinicians to ask clinical questions about the patient’s information and relevant medical evidence.

Zoom will integrate Suki’s ambient documentation into Zoom Workplace for Clinicians, a recently announced paid offering.

Atropos Health announces GA of ChatRWD, an AI co-pilot that generates real-world evidence to answer clinical questions.

Tennr, which offers AI-powered healthcare document processing, raises $37 million in Series B funding.

AI-driven patient preference and informed consent system vendor HealthEx raises $14 million in seed and Series A funding.

Artera announces new AI co-pilots to its Harmony patient communications platform: Staff (translation, predictive text for patient inquiries, message shortening, and conversation summaries that can be saved to the EHR) and Insights (no-show reports).

HCA Healthcare selects Commure to develop and deploy ambient AI. Commure closed its $139 million acquisition of ambient documentation technology vendor Augmedix in July 2024.

Research

Researchers develop a system of AI-powered Pro cameras that detects when the wrong drug syringe or vial is being used to prepare a patient’s doses, which the authors note could prevent serious medication errors in ORs, ICUs, and EDs.

Other

Harvard Medical School adds a required month-long AI course for students in its MD/PhD translational medicine program and engineering program that it offers with MIT.

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