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Sep 24, 2023·LinkedIn

Bill Gurley discusses 'Regulatory Capture' and Epic's dominance in healthcare industry. Gurley points to CEO Judy Faulkner's involvement in Obama's Health IT council and subsequent measures benefitting Epic: doctors receiving $44k for software purchases, an extra $17k for its use, and regulations likely inspired by Epic's features. Gurley criticizes an environment inhibiting startup disruption.

Sep 24, 2023·JMIR

OpenAI's large language model (LLM), ChatGPT, reached 100 million users in two months, outpacing TikTok and Instagram. These LLMs have various applications in industries such as healthcare, assisting in patient diagnosis and suggesting treatment plans. However, LLMs' implications on job roles and patient outcomes have drawn scrutiny. The widespread accessibility of AI tools allows physicians to experience AI-based technologies first-hand. However, limited access and lagging adoption rates still present barriers. Generative AI is improving accessibility, with many AI tools now available to the average medical professional. The impact of generative AI includes the democratization of AI technology, cost-effectiveness, improved data analysis, enhanced communication, and continuous learning. However, this also raises questions regarding patient privacy, legal responsibilities, and copyright ownership. Policymakers must now address these challenges for effective implementation.

Sep 24, 2023·MedCity News

Healthcare tech firm Meditech collaborates with Google Cloud, enhancing software with generative AI, largely aimed at relieving clinicians' burnout. Meditech uses Google's large language models (LLMs) to improve search, summarization, and data harmonization within its EHR, allowing quicker access to comprehensive patient data for decisive treatments. The company also experiments with Google's Med-PaLM 2 to enhance EHR’s capabilities. Another focus area involves auto-generation of clinical documents such as discharge summaries using Google’s LLMs, thereby lessening the time-consuming documentation process for clinicians.

Sep 24, 2023·Becker's Healthcare

2023 Epic Systems integrates Microsoft's AI tools, rolls out online app gallery, integrates two-way patient texting, trains workers, expands Microsoft partnership, partners with 10 virtual care companies, creates collaboration program, partners with Nuance for GPT-4 documentation, adds 83 hospitals, gets Microsoft and health system partnerships for generative AI, secures Northwell Health customer, approves Trusted Exchange Framework joining, claims top health software suite for 13 years.

Sep 24, 2023·LinkedIn

Bill Russell discusses generative AI's reliability in healthcare. Using OpenAI's function calling in webapp: gptexperiments.patient.dev, he tested triage nurse blurbs against top five likely conditions. Despite the same input, the AI resulted in varying answers. A 98% majority of diagnoses related to gallbladder disease. The Jaccard similarity of different runs was 3.41%, indicating a moderate variation in generated diagnoses. Russell sees function calling's potential for healthcare apps but worries about variation, though believes imperfect results can still be useful. Experiment repeated with zero temperature showed less variation.

Sep 24, 2023·Becker's Healthcare

Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner unveiled plans to address healthcare industry issues like provider burnout and staffing shortages at the annual Users Group Meeting. Strategy includes software training, integrating millions more patient records for data systems, using generative AI to minimize provider workload. Initiatives comprise extended workforce training, new training program Lyceum for medical students, extended patient databases for easy research and treatment information sharing under Look-Alikes initiative and generative AI integration in collaboration with Microsoft for saving time.

Sep 24, 2023·KFF Health News

Elizabeth Amirault's pain medication denied due to high Narx Score, an AI tool tracking medication use to combat opioid epidemic. Bamboo Health's NarxCare platform generates overdose risk using a secret formula, raising bias and accuracy concerns. Chronic pain patients argue unexplainable cut-off from needed drugs and adverse impacts. Some doctors feel their practice unfairly threatened due to flawed system flags. Usage of such systems underscored for balanced intent and application.

Sep 24, 2023·Forbes

Google extends large language model access to healthcare customers; enables information-handoff optimization. HCA Healthcare applies Google's Vertex AI in nurse shift handoff. Google's healthcare-specific model, Med-PaLM 2, expands healthcare customer accessibility. HCA among early access customers using generative AI for patient care information transfer. Competitors Amazon and Microsoft also leveraging AI for healthcare sector.

Sep 24, 2023·Business Wire

HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud partner to use AI technology to enhance medical workflows, particularly clinical documentation, to allow health professionals to focus more on patient care while ensuring data privacy and security. This collaboration is part of HCA's stratagem to advance its digital shift. The new arrangement enables ER physicians in certain HCA hospitals to use Google’s AI to document key medical data swiftly during patient interactions via an Augmedix app. Implementation will be extended to more hospitals, with reported strong satisfaction from the pilot program. The AI technology is also utilized to develop a tool that automates patient handoff reports between nurses for consistency and patient safety. Additionally, HCA's exploring Google’s Med-PaLM 2 LLM to assist caregivers, and Google Cloud's data sovereignty approach aids clients in maintaining control of their data.

Sep 24, 2023·HealthCare DIVE

Google's expanding Med-Palm 2, an AI model trained on medical info, to more healthcare/life sciences Google Cloud customers. HCA Healthcare and Mayo Clinic among testers since April. Med-Palm 2, improved previous model accuracy by 19%, not replacing but aiding healthcare workers. Raises concerns regarding errors, complex queries, standards, regulation. HCA uses it for documentation, planning to expand use as AI improves. Meditech using Google's AI for EHR search/summarization. Concerns include ethical AI use, quality, consent, privacy. Google ensures Med-Palm 2 training doesn't involve patient data, customers control their data. Tech gradually introduced in clinical practice to build comfort before controversial areas.