This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
Health Podcast. Here's your daily industry news briefing
for today, January 13th.
First,
Amazon Web Services and General Catalyst are teaming
up to develop AI powered tools to address
common challenges in health care.
Here are four details to know about the
partnership.
1st, under the partnership, the venture capitals firm's
portfolio companies will use AWS's technology and data
services to develop and deploy AI tools for
health systems at an unprecedented scale and speed,
according to a January 13th news release.
Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.
2, General Catalyst, iAdoc, which employs AI to
analyze medical imaging, and CAMMIR, which automates administrative
processes for clinicians,
are among the first companies to participate in
the partnership.
While the partnership is a multiyear agreement, new
tools from Idoc and Camira are expected in
2025,
leaders at the companies told CNBC.
3rd, a key goal of the collaboration is
to fast track AI startups development and go
to market process.
4,
AWS and General Catalyst both have a strong
presence in health care. General Catalyst has closed
more than 60 digital health deals in the
last 5 years. In 2024, Health Assurance Transformation
Corp, which is owned by General Catalysts,
acquired Summa Health for 80 485,000,000.
Meanwhile,
AWS offers more services specific to health care
and life sciences than any other cloud provider
according to the company.
2nd,
6 health systems, Advocate Health, CommonSpirit,
Henry Ford, Northwell, Providence, and Trinity Health have
launched the Truveta Genome Project, an initiative designed
to build the largest and most diverse database
of genetic and health information.
The project will gather data from tens of
thousands of consented and de identified volunteers,
ensuring broad representation across ancestries, ethnicities, genders, and
other social factors that influence health, according to
a news release.
The resulting database is expected to be more
than 10 times larger than previous genetic research
efforts, enabling groundbreaking insights as to how genetics
shape health outcomes.
In partnership with Renner John Genetics
Center, Truveta and its member health systems will
sequence genetic data from the first 10,000,000 participants.
Microsoft Azure will provide exclusive cloud support for
the project.
Truveta is a collaboration of 30 health systems
and aims to advance personalized medicine and improve
health equity through data driven research.
3rd,
Duke Health has selected a bridge
as its generative AI partner to capture clinical
conversations.
The new partnership follows a pilot that began
in October 2024
at Duke in which a 160
physicians in APPSs
put the Ambient AI clinical documentation
tool to use and shared real life feedback.
The health system now plans to extend access
to 5,000 clinicians across more than 150 integrated
practice
and primary care clinics as part of the
partnership.
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