Healthcare AI News 11/20/24

News

Microsoft enhances Microsoft 365 Copilot with task automation, new agents for Teams meetings and employee self-service, and a Copilot Control System for IT management.

Samsung rolls out One UI 6 Watch features to older models, which adds AI-powered tools such as health recommendations, sleep analysis, and sleep apnea detection.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Biomedical Informatics and InterSystems will work together on biomedical informatics and AI research. VUMC-DBMI will develop FHIR and interoperability training coursework that includes hands-on labs that will use InterSystems products.

BrightHeart earns FDA 510 (k) clearance for its AI-powered analysis of fetal heart ultrasounds.

Washington University School of Medicine and BJC Health System launch the Center for Health AI, which will focus on using AI to personalize patient care.

The National Institutes of Health develops an AI algorithm called TrialGPT that matches patients to clinical trials for which they are eligible.

Business

Stepful – whose AI platform delivers training to working adults for medical jobs such as medical assistant, pharmacy technician, and surgical technician – raises $32 million in a Series B funding round. The company expects to train 30,000 students this year in programs that can be completed in as little as four months for $2,500. It matches its students to one of its 8,000 partner clinics and hospitals for hands-on training.

Research

Cedars-Sinai investigators develop an AI-powered process to automate the classification of patients by the severity of their cancer, which could help get them into clinical trials faster.

Other

The New York Times runs an article titled “Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged.” Experts warn that posting images to any AI tool is not protected by HIPAA, also noting that X’s terms of service allows the company to share data with related companies.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk responds to a small study in which doctors who used ChatGPT to diagnose test patients using only their case histories performed only slightly better than those who didn’t use it, but ChatGPT by itself outperformed the doctors. Experts say that nobody really knows how doctors think, especially when they use their personal experience or intuition to diagnose patients.

A user of Google’s Gemini AI chatbot posts screenshots a session where it went off the rail when asked a question about households.

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