Healthcare AI News 4/24/24

News

In-home health screening startup Reperio Health raises $14 million in its latest funding round. The company plans to expand its offerings beyond digital health screening kits and apps to include virtual consults with nurses and AI software that analyzes test results and suggests treatment plans.

Business

Enterprise network security company Prophet Security raises $11 million in seed funding. Launched last fall, the startup uses AI to aggregate, stratify, and summarize the potential cybersecurity threats and alerts that bombard organizations on a daily basis. The company’s large language model can also be added to third-party cybersecurity products.

Karoo Health, a value-based cardiac care company, announces GA of Kohere.ai, an AI-powered platform that offers automated workflows; analytics and risk stratification; and APIs for health data exchange, sorting, and storage.

After piloting the technology at several HCA Healthcare facilities, Augmedix officially launches its AI medical documentation software for emergency departments.

Research

Mount Sinai researchers determine that LLMs are no substitute for human medical coders after giving LLMs from Meta, Google, and ChatGPT the chance to analyze and code 27,000 unique diagnoses. The LLMs showed limited accuracy, assigning the correct codes less than 50% of the time.

A Mass General Brigham study of LLM-generated replies to patient messages finds that physicians feel the technology has value in terms of reducing workload, but that a clinician should be kept in the loop so as to avoid sending replies with incomplete, incorrect, or delayed information.

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