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Healthcare AI News 3/26/25
News
OpenAI adds an advanced image generator into ChatGPT-4o. The new tool can handle up to 20 objects, learn from user-uploaded images, and create photo-realistic images. I had it reimagine a HIMSS conference session as if it were happening on the deck of a Caribbean cruise ship. This is my brilliant idea for guaranteeing booth traffic by trapping attendees at sea with nowhere to go except the exhibit hall. Think “Monsters of Rock Cruise” but with more AI panels and fewer grandparent-aged musicians stuffed like a sausage into long-mothballed leather pants.
China-based DeepSeek releases V3.1, which is free for commercial use and can run locally on a high-end Mac Studio.
Amazon is testing a health-focused chatbot that answers wellness questions and recommends products, with responses that it offers that have been reviewed by a US-based clinician marked with a “clinically verified” badge.
Business
Cleveland Clinic partners with UAE-based AI firm G42 to develop and apply healthcare AI solutions.
Healthcare AI clinician copilot developer Navina raises $55 million in a Series C funding round.
Research
A Stanford Medicine study finds that an AI tool that was trained on 80,000 EHR-based nutrition orders for premature infants could reduce medical errors, save time and cost, and improve care in low-resource settings. The AI identified 15 standardized TPN formulas that meet the needs of most patients and was able to accurately recommend the best option for each case. Neonatologists consistently preferred the AI-generated orders.
A fascinating Harvard Business School study of Procter and Gamble commercial and R&D employees looks a how AI might change worker performance, expertise sharing, and social engagement:
- Individual employees who used AI produced work of similar quality to two-person teams without AI, suggesting that AI can function as a “cybernetic teammate.”
- Teams that used AI submitted more balanced solutions that crossed functional boundaries, unlike non-AI teams whose ideas reflected only their own area of expertise.
- Participants who used AI reported increased excitement and energy, indicating that AI can replicate the social and motivational aspects of teamwork.
- AI enabled less-experienced employees to achieve output quality that was comparable to that of seasoned innovators.
- AI-assisted individuals and teams spent up to 16% less time on tasks while producing longer and more comprehensive solutions.
- AI-supported teams were three times more likely to generate top-quality solutions.
Other
A Duke University Medical Center study finds that ChatGPT accurately routed radiology procedure requests when it had been trained on team members, contact info, and schedules, but struggled with out-of-scope requests like those during evenings and weekends.
China’s military is using DeepSeek AI in its hospitals, where it provides treatment suggestions.
A New York Times article explores how doctors are using AI to repurpose existing drugs to treat rare diseases, 90% of which lack approved treatments and draw little interest from drug companies due to limited profit potential.
A woman asks ChatGPT about her anxiety and grief but rejected its suggestion of blood cancer, certain that her symptoms were caused by her father’s recent death. As her condition worsened, she saw a doctor who found that she had Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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This is the prose I’m here for. “grandparent-aged musicians stuffed like a sausage into long-mothballed leather pants.”
I really don’t take issue with older musicians, on the whole. If they have the urge to play, and they can still sing, and the audiences are willing to come? I say they have something to contribute.
I’ve seen very good to excellent performances from Starship, Johnny Cash, the Stones, Frampton, Clapton, AC/DC, Heart, and more.
Most are leaning on their old material. Still, the audiences tend to want that and good Art? It can last for a long time and be reinterpreted in different ways.
Many of them had to hit the road again after Spotify torched their retirement plans. Their concerts are shortened, lower-octave replays of their hits by what is in essence a tribute band since most of the original members have retired, died, or are suing each other. The audience gets their money’s worth by communally reliving their youth and taking over singing from a former star whose voice is shot. At least it’s better than those jukebox musicals that dominate flyover country traveling Broadway shows, with the worst I’ve ever seen being “Rock of Ages” (at least the first half, since I was intentionally absent for the second).