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Google doubles down on health AI, Memorial Hermann joins $53M funding round for health AI company + more · Becker’s Healthcare Digital Health + Health IT

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  here's your daily industry news briefing for today.
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  March 20th. First Memorial Hermann Health System is backing
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  a $53 million series A funding round for Hippocratic ai,
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  a company developing a healthcare focused
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  large language model.
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  The funding round was co-led by Prima G Invest
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  and General Catalyst.
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  The new funding will be used to test
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  and develop one of the company's newest products,
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  a healthcare staffing marketplace.
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  The market allows payers
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  and health systems to hire, quote, generative AI agents,
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  end quote, that can complete non-patient facing tasks.
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  The aim of the market is to help alleviate some
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  of the pressures healthcare organizations face
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  around staffing shortages.
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  Second, Google is updating
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  and launching new healthcare AI models ranging from those
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  that can examine medical images
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  to a personal health coaching large language model.
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  Google has launched Med LM for checks, chest x-Ray,
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  a gen AI powered tool that can help classify chest x-rays.
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  Additionally, the tech company is fine tuning its AI Model
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  Gemini so that it can answer questions about chest x-ray
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  images and genomic information,
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  a news release from Google Reads.
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  We're also seeing promising results from our fine tuned
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  models on complex tasks such as report generation
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  for 2D images like X-Ray, as well
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  as 3D images like brain CT scans,
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  representing a step change in our medical AI capabilities.
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  While this work is still in the research phase,
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  there's a potential for gen AI
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  and radiology to bring assistive capabilities
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  to health organization.
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  End quote. Another AI tool the company is planning
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  to roll out is a large language model that can serve
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  as a personalized health coach.
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  The large language model, according to Google, will be able
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  to analyze data from a person's fitness
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  and pixel devices to provide them with guidance on personal
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  and fitness goals.
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  Their news release reads quote, for example,
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  this model may be able
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  to analyze variations in your sleep patterns
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  and sleep quality, and then suggest recommendations on
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  how you might change the intensity
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  of your workout based on those insights.
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  End quote, Google is also trying
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  to test its research AI system,
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  articulate medical intelligence explorers, also known
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  as IMIE.
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  With a healthcare organization, the tool can help
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  with diagnostic reasoning and conversations.
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  The tech giant wants to see
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  how this large language model can assist
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  with clinical conversations between
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  - Clinicians and patients.
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  Third, banner health plans to expand a clinical AI program
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  to 33 hospitals in 2024.
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  After a successful pilot,
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  the health system piloted the AI platform
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  for from regard in 2022 at Banner Thunderbird Medical Center
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  in Arizona, and will now roll it out across six states
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  in phases this year.
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  The EHR based software is designed to help
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  with clinician burnout.
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  It uses proprietary algorithms, algorithms
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  and AI to unlock clinical insights and speed up workflows.
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  The tool also aims to optimize reimbursement
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  by enhancing documentation and streamlining denial appeals.
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