Healthcare AI News 6/11/25

News

A KPMG survey of 183 health system leaders in eight countries contains these key points about the use of AI in their organizations:

• Health systems are struggling to operationalize AI use cases beyond the pilot stage.
• Common hurdles are fragmented implementations, challenges in measuring ROI, and workforce culture issues.
• Self-development of AI solutions was reported by 85% of respondents.
• Emerging intelligent AI agents have the potential to increase productivity.
• Early use cases are ambient documentation, image analysis, virtual health assistants that help manage patient communication, early warning systems for patient deterioration, and claims and billing processing.
• The top five applications of AI are generative AI, speech recognition, agentic AI, machine learning, and robotics.
• One-third of respondents report that AI spending represents 10% or more of their technology budget. 

The Joint Commission and the Coalition for Health AI will partner to develop AI playbooks, tools, and a certification program.

OpenAI releases 03-pro, which performs PhD-level math and science tasks. The company also announced that it has dropped the price of o3 by 80%.

Apple announces Apple Intelligence enhancements to perform on-device live translation for Messages, FaceTime, and Phone and to perform contextual actions that are triggered by what appears on the iPhone’s screen. Apple’s WWDC announcements did not include anything pertaining to adding AI to Siri, which the company started mentioning last year.

The FDA launches an AI tool that it calls Elsa to summarize adverse events, compare product labels, and generate database code for non-clinical use. Rolled out ahead of schedule and under budget, Elsa is expected to be fully deployed by June 30. It is already being used to accelerate clinical protocol reviews and help perform scientific evaluations. A recent news report quoted FDA insiders who said that its AI tools are buggy, don’t connect to internal systems, and cannot access the Internet to retrieve studies.

Business

Mayo Clinic will invest in and collaborate with Hellocare.ai to develop ambient clinical intelligence technology. The company’s AI-powered platform passively listens to clinical conversations and detects care-related events that then trigger documentation and workflow actions. CEO Labinot Bytyqi, MS founded the Florida-based company, which was originally named Solaborate, in 2012 after working for several years at SAP.

Boehringer Ingelheim’s animal health unit will embed its canine heart murmur detection algorithms into Eko Health’s digital stethoscopes.

Clinical decision support developer OpenEvidence signs an agreement to incorporate data from 13 journals that are published by JAMA Network.

Research

Researchers develop an agentic AI system for choosing treatments for cancer treatments that agreed with the conclusions of experts 91% of the time. The system improved decision-making accuracy over GPT-4 from 30% to 87% and correctly cited recognized oncology guidelines in 75% of its answers.

Other

A ProPublica report says that software engineer Sahil Lavingia, who lacked healthcare or government experience, was tasked with canceling VA contracts using outdated, inexpensive AI models from OpenAI. He was fired two months into his assignment at the Digital Operations Growth Environment (DOGE) program for what he says were statements he made in an interview that fraud and abuse at the VA were “relatively nonexistent” and that he was surprised at “how efficient the government was.”

China-based AI startup DeepSeek is hiring interns to label medical data for applications that involve “advanced auxiliary diagnosis.” China-based researchers recently warned against the rapid adoption of DeepSeek by hospitals, warning that it is prone to hallucination and creates privacy risks.

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