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Artificial Intelligence, Consumer / Employer, Health Tech, Payers, Startups
11 HLTH Announcements You Don’t Want to Miss
This year’s HLTH conference brought a bevy of news announcements — from partnerships to new product features to acquisitions and more. In this list, MedCity News compiled short summaries for 11 of the conference’s most notable announcements.
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How HCA Is Integrating Google’s Generative AI Into Its Emergency Departments
This year, HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership by exploring ways to integrate Google’s generative AI into HCA’s workflows. The most developed project under this initiative is a pilot that began in February in which HCA’s emergency department physicians are testing a voice-enabled medical dictation tool to save them time on clinical documentation.
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Jorie Healthcare CEO Shares Why Automation is Critical to Revenue Cycle Management
The revenue cycle management business is using AI tools to automate cumbersome tasks to help hospitals operate more efficiently. It’s beginning to attract the attention of major healthcare organizations.
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How Meditech Plans to Integrate Google’s Generative AI Into Its EHR
Over the past year, Meditech has deepened its relationship with Google Cloud by exploring ways to embed Google’s generative AI into its EHR. Some of the use cases the EHR vendor is exploring include an enhanced search and summarization tool that would present clinicians with a longitudinal view of their patient and a tool that would auto-generate clinical documentation for the hospital course summary.
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Google Cloud, Mayo Clinic Strike Generative AI Partnership
Google Cloud and Mayo Clinic recently announced a partnership focused on generative AI — the health system will be deploying a new HIPAA-compliant Google Cloud service called Gen App Builder. The tool enables providers to create a search system for their data, equipped with conversational features powered by Google’s large language models.
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NourishedRx Launches Food Benefits Platform Powered by Google Cloud
NourishedRx is a food-as-medicine company that offers dietary assistance for health plans’ members through methods like medically-tailored meals, grocery support and diet education. Through the new platform, NourishedRx is able to communicate with its food partners, health plan customers and members.
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Google Partners with iCAD, Licenses Its Mammography AI Model for the First Time
Medical device manufacturer iCAD entered into a development and commercialization agreement with Google Health, in which it will integrate Google’s mammography AI technology into its suite of breast imaging AI products. The agreement marks Google’s first commercial partnership to deploy its breast imaging AI model into clinical practice.
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Highmark, Google, League Partner to Launch New Digital Health Platform
The new platform is a “digital front door” for members, offered on the web and through the My Highmark app. It will help members with scheduling appointments, accessing primary care and urgent care, managing prescription drugs and other services. It will roll out in January.
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Google Cloud unveils medical imaging suite with Hologic, Hackensack Meridian as 1st customers
Google Cloud unveiled a new product suite to make medical imaging data more interoperable and useful via artificial intelligence. Hackensack Meridian Health has begun using it to detect metastasis in prostate cancer patients earlier, and Hologic is using it to strengthen its diagnostic platform that screens women for cervical cancer.
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Google Cloud exec: Real-world data could eliminate the need for placebos in clinical trials
The speed of Covid-19 vaccine trials should inspire the pharmaceutical and medical device industries to accelerate its clinical testing, according to Shweta Maniar, Google Cloud’s director for healthcare and life sciences. She argued that harnessing real-world data will make faster clinical trials achievable for all therapeutics and devices, possibly even eliminating the need to recruit a placebo arm.
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Navigating Healthcare’s Data Revolution: Priorities, Opportunities, and Challenges for Health Systems
Arcadia recently partnered with HIMSS Market Insights to survey executives, IT, technology, and clinical leaders. Here’s what we found.
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Hospitals, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Hackensack Meridian Health deploys Google Chrome OS devices, uses Cloud AI for screenings
The New Jersey-based health system initially partnered with Google in 2019. It has now migrated to Google Workspace, providing thousands of Chrome OS devices to remote workers, and is using Google Cloud AI capabilities to detect diseases like breast cancer and Covid-19.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech, Payers
Blue Shield of California, Google Cloud to develop real-time claims processing platform
The companies will build their claims processing platform on Google Cloud’s infrastructure, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities. The goal of the collaboration is to improve patient and provider experience and reduce spending on administrative processes.
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Google, Microsoft execs: AI should be designed to support, not replace, clinicians
As Google and Microsoft compete over their cloud capabilities for healthcare, both companies are touting tools to make clinicians’ lives easier by streamlining documentation or making records searchable. At MedCity INVEST Digital Health, executives from both companies agreed on one thing: these tools should play a supporting role for clinicians while keeping patients at the center.
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INVEST Digital Health preview: Big Tech Unplugged
INVEST Digital Health is scheduled for September 20-23, and held in collaboration with Medical Alley. It brings together innovative investors across the healthcare spectrum, prominent industry players and the most promising digital health startups. It will be virtual due to Covid-19.
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What Google Cloud learned about interoperability from Mayo Clinic
Google is piloting its healthcare data engine, a tool intended to build longitudinal patient records and pull in data from multiple sources. Early work with Mayo Clinic served as a foundation for the technology.
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Google Cloud goes head-to-head with AWS with tool to standardize health data
Both cloud competitors are offering solutions that use FHIR to pull together and standardize health data from disparate sources. Google recently unveiled a solution based on its work with Mayo Clinic.