Our monthly report on AI, ML, DL, and NLP in healthcare looks at who, what, where, and how the use of artificial intelligence is changing healthcare for the better. We will bring you some of the latest news and product information along with thought leader posts and our AI playlist of episodes from Healthcare NOW Radio.
In the News
BEN and MedAdvisor Solutions Team Up to Bring Conversational AI to Patients Through Pharmacies
Brand Engagement Network (BEN), an emerging provider of personalized customer engagement AI, and MedAdvisor Solutions, a global leader of pharmacy-driven patient engagement solutions, announced a pilot partnership that will bring BEN’s AI assistants to certain pharmacies to help enhance patient outcomes.
Odessa General Surgery Robotics Selects eClinicalWorks Intelligent AI Tools and Sunoh.ai Medical AI Scribe to Enhance Efficiency
eClinicalWorks®, the largest ambulatory cloud EHR, announced that Texas-based Odessa General Surgery Robotics has selected eClinicalWorks AI solutions and the Sunoh.ai medical AI scribe to streamline workflows and enhance practice efficiency. eClinicalWorks recently launched a series of transformative AI features for its latest AI-driven EHR software version, V12. This includes integration with medical AI scribe Sunoh.ai, which enhances clinical documentation.
Viz.ai Announces Successful Completion of SOC 2 Type II + HIPAA Audits for Viz.ai One Platform
Viz.ai, an AI-powered disease detection and intelligent care coordination company, announced the completion of the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II + HIPAA audit, which includes both SOC 2 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Successful completion of this auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA), further validates Viz.ai’s focus on security, compliance and responsible AI.
The SCAN Foundation Partners with Dandelion Health to Advance Health Data Equity for Older Adults
The SCAN Foundation (TSF), an independent public foundation that catalyzes bold and equitable approaches to how older adults age in both home and community, announced it has entered into a public-private partnership with technology innovator Dandelion Health to advance algorithmic equity for older adults, especially for historically marginalized populations. The partnership will expand Dandelion’s algorithm validation offering to include social determinants of health (SDOH) of older adults, enabling developers, health systems, and payers from acute to community care settings to create more equitable algorithms used in healthcare AI and other technology applications. This expanded offering is expected to be available in June 2024.
AXYS and F4CP Announce Strategic Collaboration to Revolutionize Chiropractic Data Management and AI-Driven Decision-Making
AXYS, Inc. an innovator in no-code data integration and management solutions based in San Francisco, announces a groundbreaking cooperative endeavor with the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP), a premier not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating the public on the benefits of chiropractic care. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to enhance data-driven decision-making in the chiropractic industry.
AION Labs, In Continued Partnership with BioMed X, Launches First 2024 Global Call for Applications: AI/ML Platform for Targeting RNA with Small Molecules
AION Labs, the first-of-its-kind venture studio spearheading the adoption of AI technologies and computational science to solve therapeutic challenges, and German independent research institute BioMed X, announced the launch of its latest global call for applications to identify computational biologists, biomedical scientists and inventors to form a new startup at AION Labs’ headquarters in Rehovot, Israel.
Products
Azalea Health Unveils Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Enhance Healthcare Workflows
Azalea Health, a provider of fully-integrated cloud-based healthcare IT solutions and services, announced its revolutionary approach to artificial intelligence (AI) designed to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and personalization of healthcare workflows while maintaining the highest standards for patient privacy and data protection.
Ontrak Health Sets New Standard in Behavioral Health Care with Implementation of ReQoL Assessment in the US
Ontrak Health, an AI-powered and telehealth-enabled healthcare company, has achieved a new milestone by introducing the Recovering Quality of Life Assessment (ReQoL) into its cutting-edge WholeHealth+ Product and Solutions Suite. This strategic advancement developed by the Oxford University Innovation Lab underscores Ontrak Health’s commitment to transforming mental health care through continuous improvement, reinforcing its position as a leader in personalized and effective evidence-based solutions for mental health.
ImagineSoftware and Maverick Medical AI Team up to Offer an AI-powered, Fully Automated Medical Coding Solution
Maverick Medical AI, or Maverick, a provider of an innovative and autonomous AI-powered medical coding platform, partners with ImagineSoftware, a provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) technology in the U.S. Through the partnership, ImagineSoftware will integrate Maverick’s AI-powered Autonomous Medical Coding Platform as a solution for customers to scale their operations and achieve a higher direct-to-bill rate.
DeepScribe Launches New and Innovative Trust and Safety Suite for its Ambient AI Technology
DeepScribe, an AI-powered medical documentation solutions company, announced its new Trust and Safety Suite. The innovative features in DeepScribe’s latest addition to its ambient AI technology reflect the company’s initiative to set industry standards for AI in healthcare in safety, transparency, and ethics, and ensure that AI advancements are as trustworthy as they are revolutionary.
Aidéo Technologies™ and MedEvolve, Inc. Announce Partnership to Bring AI-Powered Coding and Revenue Cycle Workflow Automation to Healthcare Organizations
Aidéo Technologies, a provider of AI-powered medical coding workflow productivity tools, and MedEvolve, a provider of data-driven solutions that provide effective intelligence, automation, and accountability for healthcare organizations, announced a partnership to integrate Aidéo’s Gemini Coder Platform and Gemini AutoCode solutions with MedEvolve’s award-winning Effective Intelligence suite of solutions.
To Read
New Jersey Institute of Technology
AI-Powered Surgical Training Program Provides Real-Time Feedback and Instruction – By Michael Giorgio – Practice makes perfect, and a new system being tested and perfected that enables surgical trainees to obtain cutting-edge instruction in real-time, all through a new artificial intelligence program. As medical students conduct surgical exercises, the AI software scans a live video feed and provides immediate, personalized feedback.The solution is among the first generation of AI teachers giving real-time feedback and may pioneer the use of similar instructional technology in other industries, including additional areas of healthcare and medicine.
MIT News
New Model Identifies Drugs that Shouldn’t Be Taken Together – By Anne Trafton – Any drug that is taken orally must pass through the lining of the digestive tract. Transporter proteins found on cells that line the GI tract help with this process, but for many drugs, it’s unknown which of those transporters they use to exit the digestive tract. Identifying the transporters used by specific drugs could help to improve patient treatment because if two drugs rely on the same transporter, they can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together.
4sight Health
Burda on Healthcare: What Do You Get When You Add Up All These Healthcare AI Surveys? – By David R. Burda – David W. Johnson, founder and CEO of 4sight Health, likes to say healthcare will change more in the next 10 years than it has over the past 100 years. And in our last 4sight Health Roundup podcast for 2023, Johnson said the near vertical liftoff of generative AI in just one year was the biggest healthcare trend of 2023. If you put the two thoughts together, AI-based technologies will power the accelerating and revolutionary changes in healthcare over the next decade.