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Without further ado,
here's your daily industry news briefing for today.
March 20th. First Memorial Hermann Health System is backing
a $53 million series A funding round for Hippocratic ai,
a company developing a healthcare focused
large language model.
The funding round was co-led by Prima G Invest
and General Catalyst.
The new funding will be used to test
and develop one of the company's newest products,
a healthcare staffing marketplace.
The market allows payers
and health systems to hire, quote, generative AI agents,
end quote, that can complete non-patient facing tasks.
The aim of the market is to help alleviate some
of the pressures healthcare organizations face
around staffing shortages.
Second, Google is updating
and launching new healthcare AI models ranging from those
that can examine medical images
to a personal health coaching large language model.
Google has launched Med LM for checks, chest x-Ray,
a gen AI powered tool that can help classify chest x-rays.
Additionally, the tech company is fine tuning its AI Model
Gemini so that it can answer questions about chest x-ray
images and genomic information,
a news release from Google Reads.
We're also seeing promising results from our fine tuned
models on complex tasks such as report generation
for 2D images like X-Ray, as well
as 3D images like brain CT scans,
representing a step change in our medical AI capabilities.
While this work is still in the research phase,
there's a potential for gen AI
and radiology to bring assistive capabilities
to health organization.
End quote. Another AI tool the company is planning
to roll out is a large language model that can serve
as a personalized health coach.
The large language model, according to Google, will be able
to analyze data from a person's fitness
and pixel devices to provide them with guidance on personal
and fitness goals.
Their news release reads quote, for example,
this model may be able
to analyze variations in your sleep patterns
and sleep quality, and then suggest recommendations on
how you might change the intensity
of your workout based on those insights.
End quote, Google is also trying
to test its research AI system,
articulate medical intelligence explorers, also known
as IMIE.
With a healthcare organization, the tool can help
with diagnostic reasoning and conversations.
The tech giant wants to see
how this large language model can assist
with clinical conversations between
- Clinicians and patients.
Third, banner health plans to expand a clinical AI program
to 33 hospitals in 2024.
After a successful pilot,
the health system piloted the AI platform
for from regard in 2022 at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center
in Arizona, and will now roll it out across six states
in phases this year.
The EHR based software is designed to help
with clinician burnout.
It uses proprietary algorithms, algorithms
and AI to unlock clinical insights and speed up workflows.
The tool also aims to optimize reimbursement
by enhancing documentation and streamlining denial appeals.
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