{"id":16432,"date":"2023-10-31T04:32:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T08:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/?p=16432"},"modified":"2023-09-29T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T00:20:41","slug":"artificial-intelligence-in-the-health-care-industry-current-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/2023\/10\/artificial-intelligence-in-the-health-care-industry-current-trends.html","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence in the Health Care Industry \u2013 Current Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence \u2013 or AI \u2013 is a popular buzzword right now. But what does it mean for the health care industry? While it may be too soon to tell the true impact AI will have on our world, including the health care industry, here are some of the recent announcements and things to keep an eye on in the health care space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HCA Healthcare Using Generative AI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare Corporation of America (HCA), one of the largest health care organizations in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/hcahealthcaretoday.com\/2023\/08\/29\/hca-healthcare-collaborates-with-google-cloud-to-bring-generative-ai-to-hospitals\/\">announced that it will be using generative AI<\/a> to help improve its care delivery models. In the announcement, HCA notes that it started a pilot program earlier this year where roughly 75 emergency room physicians at four HCA hospitals started to use Google\u2019s AI technology to quickly and easily document key medical information from conversations during patient visits. In the pilot program, physicians use an Augmedix app to create accurate and timely medical notes and the proprietary platform then leverages natural language processing and Google Cloud\u2019s generative AI technology and speech-to-text processing to convert the data to medical notes, which the physicians then review and finalize prior to them being transferred into the hospital\u2019s electronic health record (EHR).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hackensack Meridian Health <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), the largest health system in the state of New Jersey, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org\/en\/News\/2023\/08\/30\/HMH-Deploys-Google-Clouds-Generative-AI-Tools\">announced an expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud<\/a> to use generative AI solutions to not only improve patient care but also reduce the administrative burden on clinicians, caregivers, and hospital operators. Under their partnership, HMH and Google will use Ekam, HMH\u2019s Cloud Data Platform built on Google Cloud, and Google Cloud\u2019s Vertex AI platform, which supports HIPAA compliance. Through the partnership, HMH hopes to achieve greater administrative efficiencies, enhanced clinical decision-making support, and an equitable patient experience and improved health literacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apollo Hospitals <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In India, Apollo Hospitals <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/gadgets-news\/apollo-hospitals-partners-with-google-cloud-for-its-digital-platform\/articleshow\/103441986.cms\">announced its partnership<\/a> with Google Cloud to improve access to health care throughout the country, even in rural areas. Apollo 24|7 will aim to deliver health care experiences to patients in India using telemedicine, online doctor consultations, home medication delivery, and more. Apollo 24|7 will use Google Cloud\u2019s Vertex AI and generative AI models.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s largest pharmaceutical companies \u2013 Bayer \u2013 is also joining the AI train, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/saibala\/2023\/09\/04\/bayer-is-rapidly-expanding-its-footprint-with-artificial-intelligence\/?sh=5dad7a164df8\">entering into a partnership with Google Cloud<\/a> to improve the clinical trial and drug discovery process using Google Cloud\u2019s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), a custom-developed application-specific integrated circuit to accelerate machine learning workloads. Bayer hopes that this technology will help to execute large quantum chemistry calculations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iCAD, Inc. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>iCAD, Inc., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itnonline.com\/content\/icad-and-google-health-expand-integration-google%E2%80%99s-ai-technology-icad%E2%80%99s-profound-breast\">recently announced<\/a> that it will amend its prior development and commercialization agreement with Google. This amendment will allow iCAD to integrate Google\u2019s AI technology with its ProFound Breast Health Suite for 2D mammography for use worldwide, upon regulatory approval. This may be particularly helpful, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1799-6#citeas\">study of six radiologists<\/a> found that Google\u2019s mammography AI system outperformed human readers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ginkgo Bioworks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another recent partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.ginkgobioworks.com\/news\/news-details\/2023\/Ginkgo-Bioworks-and-Google-Cloud-Partner-to-Build-Next-Generation-AI-Platform-for-Biological-Engineering-and-Biosecurity\/default.aspx\">Google Cloud is with Ginkgo Bioworks<\/a>. Under the agreement, Gingko will make Google Cloud its primary computing services provider and Google Cloud will provide funding (an unspecified amount) to help the company \u201cachieve certain milestones over the next three years,\u201d including in the areas of large language models for biological engineering, generative AI enterprise search, and developing improved central data repositories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Huma Therapeutics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Huma Therapeutics also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huma.com\/resources\/google-cloud-healthcare-gen-ai-med-palm2\">recently announced use of Google Cloud\u2019s generative AI<\/a> to enhance the company\u2019s regulated disease management platform to help health care professionals better optimize patient care delivery. Huma\u2019s technology platform maintains a range of vital signs, biomarkers, and patient-reported data that are displayed on a health care provider dashboard, which allows providers to care for many more patients than they would be able to in-person, helping to alleviate workforce pressures and expand greater access to health care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meditech<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meditech also <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2023\/09\/google-meditech-generative-ai-technology-healthcare\/\">announced an amendment to its partnership<\/a> with Google Cloud by which it will work to embed Google\u2019s generative AI into its EHR for specific use cases, particularly cases where the company believes it has potential to alleviate physician burnout. One such use is by using Google\u2019s large language models for search and summarizing EHR and data harmonization, allowing physicians quick access to a longitudinal view of their patient.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on Artificial Intelligence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/topics\/google-cloud-next\/next-2023-wrap-up\">published an article<\/a> on all of the partnerships and updates announced during its Google Cloud Next \u201923, including some of the aforementioned partnerships. Additionally, the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/committee-activity\/hearings\/oversight-of-ai-legislating-on-artificial-intelligence\">held a hearing<\/a> on legislative artificial intelligence in many capacities, including potentially health care. During NVIDIA\u2019s Chief Scientist and Head of Research Bill Daly\u2019s testimony in the hearing, he noted that already, the collaborations between health care industry and academic institutions has \u201cled to large language models that can accurately predict a patient\u2019s risk of 30-day readmission, among other clinical outcomes.\u201d Daly went on to paint a potential future picture, imagining \u201ca world where AI-driven chatbots assist healthcare providers, helping them ask the right follow-up questions and ensuring that every possible issue is considered and evaluated and that the treatment is the best possible, meets all patient needs, and is explained to the patient in a way they can understand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence \u2013 or AI \u2013 is a popular buzzword right now. But what does it mean for the health care industry? While it may be too soon to tell the true impact AI will have on our world, including the health care industry, here are some of the recent announcements and things to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1101],"class_list":["post-16432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","tag-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16433,"href":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions\/16433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policymed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}