Healthcare AI News 9/27/23

News

Nuance announces GA of Dragon Ambient EXperience (DAX) Copilot, formerly known as DAX Express, that uses conversational, ambient, and generative AI to help physicians create medical documentation.

OpenAI updates ChatGPT to support using browser-based data, effectively bypassing the previous September 2021 training cutoff. To activate, click GPT-4 and then “Browse with Bing (beta).”

Business

A planned share sale by OpenAI values the company at up to $90 billion.

OpenAI investor and competitor Microsoft is developing smaller, cheaper alternatives to ChatGPT using existing Microsoft technologies.

Drug maker Novo Nordisk, which sells weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, partners with AI-powered drug discovery vendor Valo Health to study cardiometabolic drug programs, also acquiring three pre-clinical cardiovascular drug discovery programs from Valo. Novo Nordisk will pay $60 million upfront, up to $2.7 billion in milestone payments, fund the R&D costs, and possibly pay royalties. The 45-year-old Valo founder, CEO, and board director David Berry, MD, PhD, has founded 25 companies and holds 200 patents.

Research

Researchers at Kennesaw State University will study the use of RFID clothing tags to capture body motion for the study of health problems in the elderly, especially those involving fall risk.

Other

Students at University of Calgary’s medical school create an app that allows students to practice their interactions with patients and receive feedback on their performance along with suggestions they could have asked.

Researchers find that using AI chatbots to find an ophthalmologist returned results that were biased and sometimes wrong, choosing a disproportionate percentage of male doctors and those who practice in an academic setting.

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