Healthcare AI Guy Weekly Newsletter | 9/12

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Highlights if you’ve only got 2 minutes…

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Microsoft and Paige team up on cancer-detecting AI

Paige, a global leader in end-to-end digital pathology solutions and clinical AI, has joined forces with Microsoft in the fight against cancer. Their goal is to build the largest image-based AI model for cancer detection.

The model is surging ahead with training on an unprecedented volume of data, digesting billions of images/pathology slides to identify both common and rare cancers. Paige, originally a spin-off from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, already owns an AI that assists pathologists in detecting breast, colon, and prostate cancers.

The goal is to boost speed and accuracy for medical staff — with Paige emphasizing that it is a tool for doctors, not a replacement.

Microsoft has been heavily leaning into healthcare AI this year. Combining Paige’s wealth of medical data with Microsoft’s massive computing power could lead to real breakthroughs. (link)

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Glass Health is building an AI for suggested medical diagnoses

Glass Health is building an AI tool for suggesting medical diagnoses and treatment options. The tool uses a large language model (LLM) similar to ChatGPT to generate diagnoses based on patient summaries provided by clinicians.

Physicians can type in descriptions like “65-year-old women with a history of diabetes and hyperlipidemia presents with acute-onset chest pain and diaphoresis,” and Glass Health’s AI will provide a likely prognosis and clinical plan.

While LLMs have faced scrutiny for providing inaccurate health advice, Glass Health claims to have superior AI guided by clinical guidelines created and reviewed by its academic physician team.

The company has gained traction with over 59,000 users and offers a direct-to-clinician subscription service. The company plans to pilot an enterprise offering integrated with electronic health records and has attracted interest from 15 health systems and companies. We’ll be eagerly watching the company’s runway! (link)

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Humana uses AI tool allowing agents to answer coverage questions faster

At Humana, one of the largest payers in the US, customer-service agents have been using an AI-driven tool called Automation Co-Pilot, by the tech platform Automation Anywhere, to help with questions about coverage.

The tool helps agents figure out, often within minutes, whether a given procedure is covered for a patient. Humana said it promoted the automation process within the company as a digital worker called ‘Allie.’

In a February case study, Humana estimated that automating some of its administrative processes helped reduce 684,000 hours a year in time workers spent dealing with documents! That’s a lot of time saved… (link)

Miscellaneous 🔍

News, podcasts, blogs, tweets, resources, etc…

• Evaluating benefits and limitations of AI in cancer care (link)

• Senator proposes framework for healthcare AI regulation (link)

• Accenture Chief AI Officer unveils upskilling blueprint (link)

• Plastic Surgery and AI: How ChatGPT improved operation note accuracy, time, and education (link)

• Google, Microsoft racing to incorporate generative AI into health and medicine (link)

• Google to mandate 'prominent' disclosure of AI content in political ads (link)

• Health systems hesitant to create generative AI strategies (link)

• Time magazine announces list of 100 influential people in AI (link)

• Dozens of health systems working with emerging technologies like VR (link)

• You can now get a PhD at Harvard in AI in Medicine (link)

Deal Desk 💸 

Spotlight on latest capital raises, M&A and investments…

📈 Inceptive: a biological software startup based in Palo Alto, CA led by former Google AI engineer raised $100M. Nvidia and Andreessen Horowitz were the sole investors. (link)

📈 Ibex Analytics: an AI-powered cancer diagnostics company based in Tel Aviv, Israel raised $55M in Series C funding. 83North led and was joined by Sienna Venture Capital, Octopus Ventures, aMoon, Planven Entrepreneur Ventures and Dell Technologies Capital. (link)

Tool Box 🧰

Latest on business, consumer, and clinical healthcare AI tools and partnerships…

🔧 Mass General Brigham + GE Healthcare: Boston’s Mass General Brigham and GE HealthCare have developed an AI scheduling dashboard. It is designed to predict missed care opportunities, such as when a patient misses an appointment, fails to follow up, or is late. (link)

🔧 Deepen: AI therapy & counseling. (link)

🔧 Plutis: On-demand, modern-day mental healthcare. (link)

AI Images of the Week 📸

Funny memes and pics from around the web…