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AWS, General Catalyst partner on healthcare AI tools, 6 health systems unite to create largest genetic database + 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. Here's your daily industry news briefing
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  for today, January 13th.
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  First,
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  Amazon Web Services and General Catalyst are teaming
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  up to develop AI powered tools to address
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  common challenges in health care.
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  Here are four details to know about the
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  partnership.
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  1st, under the partnership, the venture capitals firm's
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  portfolio companies will use AWS's technology and data
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  services to develop and deploy AI tools for
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  health systems at an unprecedented scale and speed,
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  according to a January 13th news release.
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  Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.
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  2, General Catalyst, iAdoc, which employs AI to
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  analyze medical imaging, and CAMMIR, which automates administrative
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  processes for clinicians,
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  are among the first companies to participate in
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  the partnership.
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  While the partnership is a multiyear agreement, new
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  tools from Idoc and Camira are expected in
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  2025,
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  leaders at the companies told CNBC.
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  3rd, a key goal of the collaboration is
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  to fast track AI startups development and go
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  to market process.
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  4,
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  AWS and General Catalyst both have a strong
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  presence in health care. General Catalyst has closed
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  more than 60 digital health deals in the
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  last 5 years. In 2024, Health Assurance Transformation
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  Corp, which is owned by General Catalysts,
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  acquired Summa Health for 80 485,000,000.
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  Meanwhile,
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  AWS offers more services specific to health care
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  and life sciences than any other cloud provider
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  according to the company.
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  2nd,
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  6 health systems, Advocate Health, CommonSpirit,
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  Henry Ford, Northwell, Providence, and Trinity Health have
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  launched the Truveta Genome Project, an initiative designed
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  to build the largest and most diverse database
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  of genetic and health information.
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  The project will gather data from tens of
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  thousands of consented and de identified volunteers,
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  ensuring broad representation across ancestries, ethnicities, genders, and
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  other social factors that influence health, according to
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  a news release.
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  The resulting database is expected to be more
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  than 10 times larger than previous genetic research
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  efforts, enabling groundbreaking insights as to how genetics
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  shape health outcomes.
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  In partnership with Renner John Genetics
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  Center, Truveta and its member health systems will
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  sequence genetic data from the first 10,000,000 participants.
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  Microsoft Azure will provide exclusive cloud support for
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  the project.
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  Truveta is a collaboration of 30 health systems
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  and aims to advance personalized medicine and improve
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  health equity through data driven research.
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  3rd,
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  Duke Health has selected a bridge
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  as its generative AI partner to capture clinical
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  conversations.
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  The new partnership follows a pilot that began
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  in October 2024
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  at Duke in which a 160
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  physicians in APPSs
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  put the Ambient AI clinical documentation
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  tool to use and shared real life feedback.
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  The health system now plans to extend access
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  to 5,000 clinicians across more than 150 integrated
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  practice
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  and primary care clinics as part of the
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  partnership.
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