Healthcare AI News 8/20/25

News

OpenEvidence says that its AI system is the first to score 100% on the US medical licensing exam. The tool explained its logic in a paper that also includes the references it consulted for each question.

Bill Gates funds a $1 million contest for using AI to analyze patient data for potential Alzheimer’s therapies.

Epic CEO Judy Faulkner tells UGM attendees that the company has 200 AI features in development. The company is testing a much-anticipated AI charting tool that it developed along with Microsoft’s Dragon technology. Epic is also studying the use of AI to mine its Cosmos research database.

The Chattanooga paper covers West Tennessee Healthcare’s pilot of Xsolis’s discharge planning AI system.

China-based DeepSeek releases a new version of its open-source LLM whose capabilities rival those of OpenAI and Anthropic.

Business

AI stocks fall after an MIT report finds that 95% of revenue-focused AI projects are failing.

LookDeep Health announces Aimee, an AI agent that can monitor hospital room audio and video.

Other

A South Korean hospital is using an on-premises LLM from Konan Technologies to generate draft patient progress notes for physician review, which the project’s neurology lead says saves him 90 minutes a day.

The LA Times describes City of Hope’s use of a self-developed LLM to admit patients, summarize EHR data, match patients with clinical trials, and extract data into research-ready formats.

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