Dr. Michael Howell, chief clinical officer at Google, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss noteworthy events in 2023, the evolution of the company's LLM for healthcare, called Med-PaLM, and recommendations for regulators in constructing rules around the use of artificial intelligence in the sector.
MobiHealthNews: What are some of your big takeaways from 2023?
Dr. Michael Howell: For us,...
A new audio recognition system in Japan that was initially developed for business record keeping is now assisting people with difficulty in hearing using generative AI.
Aisin Corporation, a manufacturer of automotive components under Toyota, developed the YYProbe mobile app during the pandemic as a speech-to-text tool for employees to keep business records.
When employees with hearing...
EndoQuest, an endoluminal robotics technology company, announced it closed a $42 million C-1 preferred financing round.
Existing investors CE Ventures Limited and McNair Interests Ltd. participated in the round, as did new investor Puma Venture Capital LLC.
WHAT IT DOES
The Houston-based company developed a flexible robotics surgery system to perform minimally invasive procedures in upper and...
German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim and tech giant IBM are teaming up to harness the power of genAI and foundation models to further biologic drug discovery.
The partnership leverages IBM’s foundation model technologies, consisting of pre-trained, large-scale neural network architectures, to accelerate the identification of novel antibodies vital for therapeutic development.
These...
GE HealthCare is leveraging AI and data integration technologies to help tackle the rapidly increasing volume of patient data and working to optimize the application of these two tech tools in patient care in announcing 40 new innovations at RSNA23.
The company's central strategy is to integrate AI into its precision care framework, encompassing smart devices, targeted therapies, disease-...
Royal Philips made several announcements at RSNA23 in Chicago yesterday, including the release of its next-generation AI-enabled advanced visualization workspace, its AI Manager and the BlueSeal MR Mobile Unit.
The company's visualization workspace for health systems is an AI-powered offering aimed at improving workflows using a single platform for multiple modalities. The company said it helps...
OpenAI's GPT-4 correctly diagnosed 52.7% of complex challenge cases, compared to 36% of medical journal readers, and outperformed 99.98% of simulated human readers, according to a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
The evaluation, conducted by researchers in Denmark, utilized GPT-4 to find diagnoses pertaining to 38 complex clinical case challenges with text information...
Healthcare AI company Layer Health, spun out of MIT, announced its launch with $4 million in funding from GV (Google Ventures), General Catalyst and Inception Health.
WHAT THEY DO
Layer Health's AI platform, dubbed Distill, built on machine learning algorithms that leverage large language models, aims to streamline the chart review process from unstructured data.
The technology can be...
Philadelphia-based AI-enabled biotech company Vivodyne announced it closed a $38 million seed funding round led by Khosla Ventures.
CS Ventures, Kairos Ventures, Bison Ventures and MBX Capital also participated in the round.
WHAT IT DOES
Vivodyne is a drug discovery company that uses clinically predictive AI to help identify therapeutic targets and predict a patient's response to a drug by...
In the wake of COVID-19 lockdowns, the healthcare industry continues to grapple with the persistent challenge of a scarcity of professionals equipped with the required information technology expertise, according to a study conducted by analytics firm GlobalData.
The survey, which involved insights from 114 professionals within the healthcare sector, sheds light on the persistent hurdles...
