This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
Health Podcast. Here's your daily industry briefing for
today, December 9th.
First,
UPMC
Enterprises, the innovation, commercialization,
and venture capital arm of UPMC,
sold a portfolio company to Carta Healthcare.
Realize Intelligence
formed in 2020 as a portfolio company of
UPMC
Enterprises
to analyze structured and unstructured EHR data for
quickly identifying patients who could participate in clinical
trials
and research studies.
The company's AI technology organizes patients into cohorts
in seconds,
speeding up a process that could take hours
or days.
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center Innovation Hub and UPMC Hillman Cancer
Center are already using the technology.
The latter report is seeing 7 times more
patients matched to clinical trials and twice as
many enrolled after using the software.
Carta Healthcare's platform helps organize
organizations decrease time and cost for data abstraction
using automation and AI.
Realize intelligence will complement the company's existing products.
2nd,
AI and machine learning top the list of
the leading IT investments for 2025
according to a new report.
Here are the top 10 IT investment areas
for next year for the November study from
IT education company Skillsoft,
which surveyed 5,191
IT leaders and employees from May to September.
This list does contain ties.
The first is AI and machine learning at
47%.
2 is cybersecurity and information security at 42%.
3 is cloud computing at 36%.
4 is infrastructure and systems at 33%.
5 is leadership skills at 28 8 percent
set, and a tie for data analytics, data
management, data science, government risk, and compliance
at 25%.
Number 8, project management at 22%.
Another tie between Internet of things and networking
and wireless local area network at 18%, as
well as virtualization at another tie at 18%.
3rd,
Montiport Health System has begun rolling out Microsoft
Stacks Copilot,
an ambient clinical documentation tool at its primary
care locations in Bronx and Hudson Valley.
This technology, part of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
and integrated with Epic, transcribes and interprets conversations
in both both voice notes before, during, and
after patient visits, reducing administrative tasks and allowing
clinicians to focus more on patient care.
The initial rollout includes approximately a 100 and
50 primary care physicians with plans to expand
the technology to an additional specialties across the
system in 2025,
according to a news release Monte For shared
with Becker's.
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