Healthcare AI News 12/11/24

News

OpenAI launches AI-driven video generator Sora, then disables it when it is overloaded from heavy traffic. It can generate video from text instructions and existing media, but only up to a final length of 20 seconds. The company also releases its Canvas feature to all ChatGPT users, which allows users to work on writing and coding projects with increase editing capability.

Google announces Willow, a new quantum chip that performs a benchmark computation in under five minutes versus the 10 septillion years that is required by the fastest supercomputers.

Business

Corewell Health chooses Abridge for ambient clinical documentation, with a rollout to 4,000 physicians planned.

Research

A Washington State University sociologist finds that rural clinics aren’t ready to use AI to optimize proactive text messages to patients. An AI-polished lung screening message drew fewer responses than the traditional one and more than 50% of all sent messages bounced back as undeliverable, raising the question of how the clinic could contact its patients in an emergency. The local hospital also noted that the area has a high population of Hispanics, which raised its own messaging challenges.

Other

Corpus Christi Medical Center Chief of Surgery Michael Ewing, MD credits his use of MedQuill’s newly launched SurgeOn Scribe – which he helped create — to saving an hour of clinic time each day. 

Joe Raetano, the VA’s AI architect, says that the organization is using AI to extract social determinants of health from clinical notes and to manage patient data via an agentic chatbot.

In England, a woman credits AI with saving her life after her lung cancer was diagnosed by Royal Surry NHS Foundation Trust using AI imaging triage tool Annalise.ai.

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