Healthcare AI News 5/7/25

News

What I love about this is that AI doesn’t have to do anything superhuman. It’s performing a low intellect task, but at very high volume, and that still provides a lot of value, because we’re constantly finding things that we miss. We know we miss stuff. Before, we just didn’t have the tools to go back and find it.

Nvidia releases Parakeet 2, a lightweight, open source transcription model that runs on just 2GB of RAM and is free for commercial use, making it ideal for building transcription tools, voice assistants, or real-time subtitles.

Business

UnitedHealth Group is running 1,000 AI applications in production that summarize data, help process claims, run customer-facing chatbots, and help its 20,000 software engineers write code. The company says it won’t use AI to deny claims.

AI-powered clinical abstraction technology vendor Carta Healthcare raises $18.25 million in a Series B1 funding round that was led by UPMC Enterprises.

Hippocratic AI enters the Japanese market with a Tokyo-based partner, launching the first Japanese-language healthcare agent for non-diagnostic tasks like scheduling, follow-ups, chronic care check-ins, and med adherence.

Research

An Oxford study finds that while LLMs perform well on medical quizzes, they aren’t much help to non-experts who are making decisions. Users who relied on chatbots fared no better than those who Googled or guessed, mostly because they gave the technology incorrect or incomplete information about their situation. The authors warn against using chatbots as the front line of care.

Other

Purdue’s College of Pharmacy launches a $500 online AI certificate program for healthcare professionals, offering 42 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits for physicians and 42 contact hours for pharmacists.

Fiverr’s CEO candidly levels with employees about AI’s threat to their jobs and his. Meanwhile, my TIL term of the week is “vibe coder,” which describes someone who designs software by telling AI what they need, then letting it generate the code.

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