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Google Healthcare

Google’s HeAR Model Now Available via Cloud API for Health Research

Chris McKay• August 20, 2024 • 2 min read

Researchers have found that HeAR outperforms other models across a wide range of tasks, demonstrating superior ability to capture meaningful patterns in health-related acoustic data.

Healthcare

AliveCor Launches Kardia 12L: A Handheld, AI-Powered Pocket ECG that Detects Heart Attacks

Chris McKay• June 26, 2024 • 1 min read

This AI can identify 35 cardiac determinations, including 14 arrhythmias and 21 morphologies, with acute myocardial infarction and various forms of cardiac ischemia.

Google Healthcare

Med-Gemini: Advancing Medical AI with Highly Capable Multimodal Models

Chris McKay• May 1, 2024 • 3 min read

Med-Gemini sets a new state-of-the-art of 91.1% in MedQA-USMLE and outperforms GPT-4 models by an average relative margin of 44.5% on 7 multimodal benchmarks including NEJM Image Challenges.

Venture Capital Startups Healthcare

Fabric Announces $60M Series A to Tackle Healthcare Capacity Crisis

Chris McKay• February 25, 2024 • 2 min read

The startup has reportedly grown from zero to 8 figures in annual recurring revenue since emerging from stealth mode.

Healthcare AI Ethics AI Safety

CMS Bans Medicare Advantage Insurers From Using AI to Deny Care

Chris McKay• February 8, 2024 • 2 min read

CMS worries that AI could perpetuate discrimination or fail to account for unique patient needs.

Healthcare

AI is Making Mental Health Care More Accessible and Engaging

Richard Banfield• February 6, 2024 • 2 min read

These innovations promise a more inclusive, effective, and patient-centered approach to mental health care, especially for those in underrepresented communities.

Venture Capital Startups Healthcare

Ambience Healthcare Secures $70M as Investors Bet on AI to Transform Healthcare Workflows

Chris McKay• February 6, 2024 • 2 min read

A key ingredient in Ambience’s early success is custom-tailoring its AI to support the unique needs of specialties from oncology to pediatrics. This ensures clinical nuance is accounted for instead of a one-size-fits-all model that may fail to resonate.

Amazon Healthcare

Amazon Bets on AI to Enhance Pharmacy Experience

Chris McKay• January 24, 2024 • 2 min read

Powered by multiple, pre-trained models from Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMake, the company believes AI can help set a new industry standard for convenience and accessibility.

Google Research Healthcare

Google Shares Research Progress on AI that Converses, Reasons and Diagnoses Like Your Doctor

Richard Banfield• January 12, 2024 • 2 min read

AMIE demonstrated stronger diagnostic accuracy and outperformed doctors on most metrics of consultation quality in both diagnostic accuracy and clinical communication.

Venture Capital Startups Healthcare

Nabla Secures $24 Million in Series B Funding to Accelerate Healthcare Copilot Rollout

Richard Banfield• January 5, 2024 • 2 min read

Their Copilot platform is integrated with major Electronic Health Records systems like Epic and Nextgen, and already handles over 3 million consultations annually in three languages.

Google Healthcare

Google Introduces MedLM, A New Family of AI Models for the Healthcare Industry

Richard Banfield• December 13, 2023 • 2 min read

These models, a larger one for complex tasks and a medium model suitable for scaling across tasks, are designed to handle diverse applications from summarizing conversations to navigating medication databases.

NVIDIA Healthcare

NVIDIA Launches MONAI to Streamline Medical Imaging AI Development

Chris McKay• November 27, 2023 • 2 min read

MONAI is comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade containers, AI models, and cloud APIs based on the open-source Project MONAI.

Venture Capital Healthcare

Forward Health Unveils AI-Powered 'CarePods' and Announces $100 Million in New Funding

Chris McKay• November 15, 2023 • 3 min read

The concept behind CarePods is to offer an immersive experience where patients are in control of their health journey.

Venture Capital Startups Healthcare

Abridge Raises $30 Million to Accelerate Adoption of its AI-Powered Clinical Documentation

Chris McKay• October 26, 2023 • 1 min read

The investment will support Abridge’s rapid expansion as health systems nationwide adopt its technology to reduce clinician burnout and enhance patient care.

Research Open Source Healthcare

M42 Health Unveils Med42 - A Milestone for Open Access in AI for Healthcare

Chris McKay• October 13, 2023 • 2 min read

The model achieved up to 72% accuracy in a zero-shot evaluation on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), and outperforms OpenAI's ChatGPT 3.5.

Microsoft Healthcare

Microsoft Unveils New Healthcare-Specific Data and AI Tools

Chris McKay• October 10, 2023 • 3 min read

At the heart of these innovations is Microsoft Fabric. Introduced earlier this year as a comprehensive analytics platform, Microsoft has now imbued Fabric with healthcare-specific solutions.

Google Healthcare

Google adds Medically-Tuned Generative AI Search for Healthcare and Life Science Companies

Chris McKay• October 9, 2023 • 1 min read

Vertex AI Search for healthcare leverages Google's Healthcare API, Healthcare Data Engine, and search technology from its Care Studio pilot to enable natural language search on clinical data.

Venture Capital Startups Healthcare

Corti Secures $60M in Series B Funding to Fuel Healthcare AI Innovation

Chris McKay• September 20, 2023 • 1 min read

The new capital will support Corti's rapid growth and continued innovation in conversational AI for healthcare and emergency response.

Healthcare

Oracle Unveils AI-Powered Clinical Assistant to Enhance Patient Care

Chris McKay• September 18, 2023 • 2 min read

The clinical assistant automates routine tasks like taking notes during patient visits and proposing relevant follow-up actions.

Healthcare Venture Capital AI Tech

Mendaera Announces $24M Series A and Expansion Into Production Facility

Chris McKay• August 21, 2023 • 2 min read

The company will use the new funds to accelerate growth and manufacturing in preparation for FDA clearance and product launch.

Healthcare

Abridge Announces Partnership with Epic and Emory Healthcare to Bring Generative AI to Providers

Chris McKay• August 16, 2023 • 1 min read

The company's technology records conversations, generates note drafts within minutes, and integrates the drafts into the provider's EHR workflow.

Healthcare AI Tech

Vital Uses AI to Simplify Medical Jargon for Patients

Chris McKay• August 9, 2023 • 2 min read

The Translator parses intricate terminology in doctors' notes, test results, instructions and more into simplified language using advanced natural language processing.

Microsoft Healthcare

Microsoft and Duke Announce New AI Innovation Lab

Chris McKay• August 2, 2023 • 1 min read

By marrying Duke Health's leadership in patient care and medical research with Microsoft's technological expertise, this strategic partnership aims to usher in a new era of innovation in healthcare.

Google Healthcare Research

Med-PaLM M is a Multimodal Biomedical AI from Google Research and Google DeepMind

Chris McKay• July 31, 2023 • 3 min read

Across all tasks in the benchmark, Med-PaLM M reached or exceeded state-of-the-art performance, often surpassing specialized models optimized for individual tasks by a wide margin.

Startups Healthcare

Hippocratic AI Raises $15M and Announces Founding Partner Program

Chris McKay• July 28, 2023 • 3 min read

The program brings together leading health systems and digital health companies who will take on integral roles in guiding the development of their AI model over the next five years.