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🌊BREAKING: OpenAI quietly turns into a healthcare company
PLUS: AI does a life-saving heart surgery
Bashir Musa
January 13th, 2024
🕒Read time: 3 minutes
Welcome back, fellow AI Health nerd!
OpenAI partners with WHOOP and dives into healthcare. Is the leading AI giant quietly turning into a health company?
Let's analyze why they're suddenly targeting millions of patients instead of focusing solely on technological breakthroughs…
This week…
OpenAI is slowly turning into a healthcare company
NVIDIA + Amgen build advanced AI for new drug discovery
Isomorphic Labs scores $3B deals with Lilly and Novartis
Emirati patient saved by AI-assisted heart surgery
And more AI transforming healthcare stories…
💡 NEW DEVELOPMENTS & INNOVATIONS
Credit: Design by Nikhil Kumar
SUMMARY: OpenAI has recently entered healthcare, partnering with WHOOP and Summer Health to provide personalized health coaching and automated medical note-taking powered by GPT-4 AI. They’re also exploring applications in radiology and improving accessibility for vision-impaired individuals.
WHY IT MATTERS: OpenAI’s healthcare push could soon provide better preventative care, diagnosis, and treatment to millions worldwide.
SUMMARY: NVIDIA announced a collaboration with Amgen to utilize NVIDIA's Freyja platform and DGX SuperPOD, containing 248 GPUs, to analyze vast datasets and construct advanced AI models for biomarker discovery and novel drug targeting.
WHY IT MATTERS: This partnership demonstrates AI’s monumental potential to quicken the development of innovative disease treatments and diagnostic tools.
SUMMARY: Isomorphic Labs, founded on DeepMind's AlphaFold protein prediction AI, signed two partnerships with Lilly and Novartis totaling nearly $3 billion to discover small molecule therapies against undisclosed disease targets.
WHY IT MATTERS: Isomorphic’s blockbuster pharma deals validate that AI-powered platforms could transform the traditionally lengthy drug discovery process.
Read the full story here…
🩺 AI'S IMPACT ON PATIENT CARE
Credit: Khushnum Bhandari / The National
SUMMARY: A 26-year-old Emirati experienced a rare heart attack due to untreated diabetes. Cardiologists at Ajman's Saudi German Hospital used AI imaging to accurately detect a critical 4mm arterial blockage missed by human eyes, allowing them to implant a precisely measured stent that saved his life.
WHY IT MATTERS: This demonstrates how AI can enhance precision in diagnosis and treatment to improve patient outcomes for complex medical cases.
SUMMARY: Nabla has rapidly signed up 20,000 doctor users in 10 months for its AI-powered medical note-taking assistant called Nabla Copilot. It writes notes with 97% accuracy in seconds, saving doctors up to 6 hours per week in admin work, allowing them to focus on patient care.
WHY IT MATTERS: This AI tool tackles doctor burnout by automating the widely hated documentation tasks, giving back precious personal time while enhancing care.
SUMMARY: Researchers from Mass General Brigham have found that specialized large language models (LLMs) can identify under-documented social determinants of health (SDOH) in electronic health records (EHRs) after accurately identifying 93.8 percent of patients with adverse SDOH who could benefit from additional support.
WHY IT MATTERS: This AI could ensure vulnerable patients get connected to financial, social, and community services for better support.
🤖 REAL-WORLD AI APPLICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE
Credit: Mercy Orthopedic Hospital in Springfield, MO
SUMMARY: Mercy Orthopedic Hospital in Springfield, MO has performed over 100 total knee replacements using VELYS Robotic-Assisted Solution since fall 2022. The technology offers live intraoperative imaging for greater accuracy, less soft tissue damage, and faster patient recovery compared to traditional surgery.
WHY IT MATTERS: Robotic knee surgery at Mercy could enable patients to progress faster in physical therapy, get off pain meds sooner, and improve function following total knee replacement.
SUMMARY: A new study from UT Southwestern Medical Center found robotic surgery for colon cancer patients undergoing colectomies delivers shorter hospital stays, fewer conversions to open surgery, and more accurate cancer staging compared to laparoscopic procedures.
WHY IT MATTERS: This demonstrates the advanced technology of surgical robots allows for higher-quality views, better precision, and enhanced patient outcomes over traditional minimally invasive surgery.
SUMMARY: Viz.ai's AI-based care coordination platform now serves 45,000 providers across 1,500+ US hospitals, covering 5 patients per minute. New 2023 cardiology offerings and real-world evidence continue to demonstrate the solution's clinical and economic impact through faster diagnosis and treatment.
WHY IT MATTERS: The widespread adoption of Viz.ai's AI is improving patient outcomes by greatly accelerating access to life-saving therapies for time-sensitive illnesses like stroke and heart attack.
🔬 LATEST AI MEDICAL DEVICES & REGULATIONS
Credit: University of Technology, Sydney
SUMMARY: Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney developed a deep learning AI system called Custom-CNN that can rapidly diagnose COVID-19 from chest X-rays with over 98% accuracy.
WHY IT MATTERS: This AI tool could improve and accelerate COVID-19 detection where PCR tests are limited, benefiting patients by enabling faster treatment and isolation to reduce transmission.
SUMMARY: An alarming KFF investigation found that instead of clinical trials, thousands of medical devices per year, including implants, get cleared by the FDA through the 510(k) process requiring just “substantial equivalence” to existing products.
WHY IT MATTERS: This regulatory loophole puts patients at risk since most cleared devices completely avoid premarket testing to establish safety and effectiveness.
SUMMARY: Clarius Mobile Health gained FDA 510(k) clearance for its Clarius Bladder AI, an ultrasound-based tool that automatically measures bladder volume. The technology serves as a versatile, non-invasive alternative to traditional bladder scanners for real-time clinical feedback.
WHY IT MATTERS: This regulatory approval enables expanded clinical use of AI for non-invasive bladder assessment across medical settings like urology and nursing.
That’s all, those are some of the top developments in the world of AI and healthcare this week!
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Thanks for reading and have a great weekend.
Until next week,
Bashir Musa
Founder of AI HealthWave
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