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.
Events
NLP Summit 2024
When: September 24-26, 2024
Where: Free Online Event
Register for this event.
Join the world’s largest Applied NLP, LLM, and Generative AI community at this fifth edition of the NLP Summit! Three days of immersive content including over 50 technical sessions, with focus days on open source, healthcare and applications. Attend live Q&A sessions with the speakers, connect with others through networking features, and access all content on-demand after the event. he second week will feature beginner to advanced live training workshops with certifications. Learn, share, and apply best practices for putting AI to good use!
AI @ HLTH Pavilion
When: October 20-23, 2024
Where: The Venetian Expo Center, Las Vegas NV
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HLTH is on a mission to demystify the use of AI in healthcare by convening the forerunners in this technology for demonstrations and collaborative dialogue covering real-world use cases.
New this year, the AI @ HLTH Pavilion is a destination in the exhibition hall where HLTH attendees will experience live interactive demonstrations around specific use cases for AI in healthcare.
In the News
CentralReach Expands Preferred Partnership Community and Optionality for Its Customer Base
CentralReach, a company in autism and IDD care software for ABA, multidisciplinary, and special education, announced a preferred partnership with Collectly, an AI-powered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology company specializing in healthcare patient billing and engagement solutions. This partnership marks Collectly’s entry into the CR Preferred Partner Network, furthering CentralReach’s commitment to empowering autism and IDD care providers with more tools to enhance financial operations and improve the client experience.
Zscaler and CrowdStrike Announce New AI and Zero Trust Cyber Security Integrations
Zscaler, Inc., a cloud security company, announced a new set of AI and Zero Trust integrations with the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform to advance security operations. The latest integrations with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ Platform, Zscaler Data Fabric for Security, and CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM modernize security operations to provide advanced threat detection, response, and risk management.
Limb Loss Prevention Registry Taps AI App for Advanced Mobility Insights
OneStep, a digital health company powered by motion intelligence, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with the Limb Loss and Preservation Registry (LLPR). This partnership will see OneStep contributing its advanced gait data to the LLPR, offering unique insights into patient mobility – a crucial element for understanding the functional outcomes of prosthetic interventions and rehabilitation efforts – and, ultimately, aiding in the enhancement of research, care strategies, and reimbursement protocols for individuals with limb loss.
LifeBridge Health and care.ai Partner to Implement Virtual Care Solutions for Patients
care.ai, the world’s first and most advanced AI Smart Care Facility Platform for healthcare, and LifeBridge Health, one of the largest, most comprehensive providers of health services in Maryland, announced the implementation of care.ai’s Virtual Care solutions, starting with Sinai Hospital of Baltimore.
AI-First Approach to Cancer Diagnostics Earns Ibex Medical Analytics Notable Milestones
Ibex Medical Analytics (Ibex), an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cancer diagnostics company, announced major advancements in customer growth, validation through a Quest Diagnostics study, regulatory approvals and expansion of its Board of Directors.
Products
Atropos Health Announces Data Quality ScoreCard and AI Tools as New Benefits to All Atropos Evidence Network Members
Atropos Health announced the availability of Data Quality ScoreCards to members of the Atropos Evidence™ Network, the largest federated healthcare data network with 300M+ patient records. By joining the Atropos Evidence Network, data contributors receive confidential, transparent, analytically driven feedback on their own data quality and strengths and access to the most advanced AI tools.
Thoughtful AI Empowers Healthcare Providers With Prior Authorization RCM AI Agent PAULA
Following the success of its first three AI Agents specializing in key healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) roles, Thoughtful AI announced the launch of its latest RCM AI Agent: PAULA. PAULA is a true RCM game-changer – revolutionizing healthcare providers’ prior authorization processes by automating submissions, tracking and appeals with unmatched accuracy and speed, and an impressive 98% first-pass resolution rate.
Komodo Health Unveils New Generative AI Offerings to Enable Real-Time Insights Across 330 Million Patient Journeys
Healthcare technology company Komodo Health introduces two new products within its MapLab platform, making it easier than ever before to tap into the industry’s most robust database of de-identified patient-level insights. With the launch of MapAI™ and MapExplorer™, Komodo deepens its commitment to improving the insights workflow, applying AI-enabled tools to rapidly produce targeted, trustworthy and contextualized insights and analyses. Both offerings are available in MapLab, the industry’s only unified suite of applications designed to accelerate and democratize insight generation for healthcare and Life Sciences organizations.
Xsolis Announces the Official Launch of Next Generation AI-Powered Platform, Dragonfly, at XCHANGE ‘24
Xsolis, an AI-driven technology company that reduces administrative tasks and avoidable denials, and improves collaboration between healthcare providers and payers, announced the official launch of Dragonfly®, a first-of-its-kind, next generation AI-powered platform, utilized by health systems and health plans to drive operational and clinical efficiencies and improve patient care management. The official launch of Dragonfly coincides with Xsolis’ annual conference, XCHANGE ’24, taking place in Nashville, September 29 – October 2, which brings together healthcare industry executives as well as utilization management, care coordination, revenue cycle, and health plan leaders.
Sonio Launches its AI-enhanced Ultrasound Reporting Solution in France and Obtains CE Mark for Sonio Detect
Sonio, the medtech company specializing in women’s and children’s health, announced that it has received CE marking for its product Sonio Detect. Sonio Detect, the software for automatic detection of views, anatomical structures and quality criteria on ultrasound images already marketed by Sonio in the United States, is now available in France.
AvaSure, Oracle Collaborate With NVIDIA on AI-Powered Virtual Concierge for Hospitals and Health Systems
AvaSure, an acute virtual care company, is collaborating with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to develop a virtual concierge solution built with NVIDIA full-stack AI technology to improve patient care and streamline clinical workflows in hospitals and healthcare systems. The cutting-edge virtual concierge will leverage the power of AvaSure’s Intelligent Virtual Care Platform; Oracle’s AI offerings, including OCI Compute; and NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure, including NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs with NVIDIA NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. These combined capabilities can create a seamless, AI-powered bedside experience, enabling smart rooms across any department.
Sunoh.ai Multilingual AI Scribe Drastically Reduces Physician Burnout
Sunoh.ai, an HER-agnostic, AI-powered ambient listening technology, announced that High Country Community Health (HCCH), an early adopter of Sunoh.ai’s multilingual feature, is transforming patient encounters. The new multilingual feature identifies different dialects and accents of the same language, helping save two hours daily on clinical documentation. Improved documentation enables better patient care. Sunoh.ai helps the community health center achieve improved work-life balance and reduced risk of burnout for providers.
Netsmart Announces Bells Virtual Scribe and Automation Advancements of the CareFabric® Platform
Netsmart announces the launch of Bells Virtual Scribe, an advanced augmented intelligence (AI) tool for clinician and staff support. The AI-powered clinical documentation and ambient listening technology, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), aims to enhance and simplify the documentation process within electronic health records (EHR), thus reducing the administrative load on healthcare providers.
To Read
DermaSensor Announces New Publication Demonstrating its AI-powered Spectroscopy Device’s High Performance for Patients’ Worrisome Moles
DermaSensor Inc., a health technology company designing non-invasive tools to better equip primary care physicians for skin cancer detection, announced the publication of research demonstrating that its device can help clinicians more accurately detect skin cancer, while also effectively ruling out the majority of referrals of benign lesions that patients were concerned were cancerous.
1 in 2 UK Doctors Report They Will Not Use AI to Treat Patients
New research from Medscape UK into attitudes towards artificial intelligence (AI) among UK doctors has revealed half (47%) would not use generative AI to treat their patients, while a similar proportion (48%) would consider using the technology for this purpose. The vast majority of the 745 physicians surveyed (86%) expressed concern that patients using generative AI for medical advice could receive misinformation, with 82% concerned that patients trying to self-diagnose could take AI more seriously than their doctor.