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Health tech layoffs so far in '24, OpenAI inks health system partnership + more · Becker’s Healthcare Digital Health + Health IT

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  This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker's Digital
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  Health Podcast.
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  Here's your daily industry news briefing for today,
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  September 16th.
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  First,
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  UT Health Houston is entering into a partnership
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  with OpenAI,
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  the organization that developed Chat GPT.
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  As part of the partnership,
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  UT Health Houston will grant students, faculty, and
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  staff access to OpenAI's
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  Chat GPT
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  education tool according to a September 13th news
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  release.
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  The platform will be used to create custom
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  solutions.
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  Amar Youssef, vice president and CIO at UT
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  Health Houston, said in the news release, quote,
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  by using these advanced tools, we aim to
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  develop safe and trusted solutions that improve the
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  patient experience, drive innovate innovative research, streamline operations,
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  and provide state of the art capabilities for
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  data analysis.
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  Ultimately, this will benefit our entire health care
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  and academic ecosystem,
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  end quote.
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  2nd,
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  more than 60,000
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  tech workers have been laid off so far
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  in 2024,
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  including a 5 health tech companies according to
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  a list compiled by TechCrunch.
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  The health tech firms that have shed staff
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  this year for the publication September 12th story
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  are Jasper Health, a cancer care platform,
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  Q Health, a diagnostic
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  start up,
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  Hinge Health, a virtual physical therapy company,
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  Amazon, and its one medical and Amazon pharmacy
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  units,
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  and BenchSci,
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  a AI biomedical
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  start up.
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  3rd,
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  New York City based Mount Sinai Health System
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  and IBM are launching a new research effort
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  aimed at improving the mental health of young
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  people.
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  Their organizations are partnering on a study called
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  the phenotypes
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  reimagine to define clinical treatment and outcome research
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  study, which will use AI and behavioral health
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  data to predict outcomes like treatment dropout,
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  hospitalizations,
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  and emergency room visits for individuals between the
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  ages of 15 and 30 who are undergoing
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  mental health assessment and treatment for the first
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  time, according to a September 12th news release.
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  The study will also involve collaboration with researchers
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  from Harvard, John Hopkins, Columbia,
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  and Carnegie Mellon Universities,
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  as well as deliberate AI.
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