Healthcare AI News 5/28/25

News

Ambience Healthcare develops an AI medical coding model using OpenAI’s Reinforcement Fine-Tuning technology that can record and document clinical conversations, and identify and integrate relevant ICD-10 codes for more accurate billing. The company claims the new AI scribe outperformed 18 physicians in a study of coding accuracy.

Get a Second Opinion launches to offer members access to AI-powered medication and medical condition analysis. The startup’s tool pulls from medical studies and FDA and clinical outcomes data to generate personalized medication and treatment plan reports for $35 a year.

Business

Google develops MedGemma, a set of AI models built on the company’s Gemma 3 technology that can help healthcare developers build apps integrating analysis of medical images and text.

Research

Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine (NY) and Morehouse School of Medicine (GA) use BeeKeeperAI’s EscrowAI software to quickly and securely test AI models on chronic heart failure data.

Researchers at West Virginia University determine that while AI tools like ChatGPT can assist ER doctors with diagnoses, the accuracy of AI-based diagnostics decreases as patient cases become more complex. They also found that the new version of ChatGPT was 15% to 20% more accurate than older versions.

A majority of patients trust AI when it comes to assisting their physicians with prior authorizations, according to a DrFirst survey of 1,000 consumers. They note that using AI as part of the PA process enables physicians to spend more time with them, helps them to start therapy more quickly, and potentially reduces human error during the PA process.

Other

AI-based mental healthcare software startup Cognera Health wins the $100,000 Alabama Launchpad competition. Co-founder Jaydeep Patel had worked in mental health counseling before partnering with co-founder and CEO Varnsi Jupudi to launch Cognera. The company, which is focused on using AI to help patients and providers in between therapy appointments, will use the prize money to accelerate the start of several pilot programs.

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