This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
Health Podcast.
Here's your daily industry news briefing for today,
September 16th.
First,
UT Health Houston is entering into a partnership
with OpenAI,
the organization that developed Chat GPT.
As part of the partnership,
UT Health Houston will grant students, faculty, and
staff access to OpenAI's
Chat GPT
education tool according to a September 13th news
release.
The platform will be used to create custom
solutions.
Amar Youssef, vice president and CIO at UT
Health Houston, said in the news release, quote,
by using these advanced tools, we aim to
develop safe and trusted solutions that improve the
patient experience, drive innovate innovative research, streamline operations,
and provide state of the art capabilities for
data analysis.
Ultimately, this will benefit our entire health care
and academic ecosystem,
end quote.
2nd,
more than 60,000
tech workers have been laid off so far
in 2024,
including a 5 health tech companies according to
a list compiled by TechCrunch.
The health tech firms that have shed staff
this year for the publication September 12th story
are Jasper Health, a cancer care platform,
Q Health, a diagnostic
start up,
Hinge Health, a virtual physical therapy company,
Amazon, and its one medical and Amazon pharmacy
units,
and BenchSci,
a AI biomedical
start up.
3rd,
New York City based Mount Sinai Health System
and IBM are launching a new research effort
aimed at improving the mental health of young
people.
Their organizations are partnering on a study called
the phenotypes
reimagine to define clinical treatment and outcome research
study, which will use AI and behavioral health
data to predict outcomes like treatment dropout,
hospitalizations,
and emergency room visits for individuals between the
ages of 15 and 30 who are undergoing
mental health assessment and treatment for the first
time, according to a September 12th news release.
The study will also involve collaboration with researchers
from Harvard, John Hopkins, Columbia,
and Carnegie Mellon Universities,
as well as deliberate AI.
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