With new artificial intelligence (AI) products emerging (seemingly) every day—generative AI is increasingly becoming part of the healthcare process.

But what does it actually look like to implement an AI program into a health system?

University of Iowa (UI) Health Care in Iowa City has teamed up with Nabla, a Boston-based company that develops ambient AI assistant technology, to roll out the company’s new technology that transcribes appointments and reduces clinicians’ time spent on documentation, according to Nabla. UI Health Care rolled out the tech to all its clinicians in September and provided video training for the staff on how to use Nabla, James Blum, an anesthesiologist and chief health information officer at UI Health Care, said.

In 2024, about 62% of clinicians reported that “excessive documentation requirements” is a leading cause of burnout, according to Athenahealth, a health tech and electronic health record (EHR) company. The American Medical Association reported in January that primary care physicians, for example, can spend up to 45.7 minutes on documentation for every 30-minute appointment.

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More than 65 million people in the US identified as Hispanic or Latino in 2023, according to US Census Bureau data, making up over 19% of the total population.

But the medical community doesn’t reflect that diversity. Though enrollment for minority students in medical school is increasing, the Association of American Medical Colleges reported that just under 7% of physicians identified as “Hispanic (alone or with any race)” in 2021.

Medical schools and healthcare centers are increasingly prioritizing cultural competency training, but it’s not clear if these efforts are mitigating health disparities. There are few studies and no established “best practices” for improving cultural sensitivity, a 2020 review funded by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Washington University in St. Louis found. Meanwhile, about half of Hispanic or Latino patients said they’ve had negative healthcare experiences, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center report.

To tackle disparate care, Latino and Hispanic doctors and community leaders told Healthcare Brew it’s important to have representation in medicine and provide patients with a healthcare professional who speaks their language and respects their culture. These shifts can make patients feel more comfortable and help them articulate their needs, improving their experience and outcomes, according to a 2022 study from the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine.

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CFOs are embracing AI, experimenting with new use cases for it throughout the finance function. But some CFOs are tapping the potential of the technology in other ways. At biotech firm Absci, researchers are using AI to develop drugs to treat cancer. (We’re not saying that to make your Claude-drafted emails look bad, we promise.)

Absci’s CFO and CBO, Zach Jonasson, spoke with CFO Brew about how AI is allowing the company to create and test new antibodies faster—and cheaper—than ever before.

Absci uses E. coli—yes, the same bacteria that can give you some nasty infections—to manufacture antibodies that can be used in a variety of therapies. Using a process called “high throughput screening,” it then tests the antibodies, and it patents therapies containing the most promising ones.

Even before ChatGPT burst onto the scene, Absci saw potential in AI. Through its testing of antibodies, the company generated large amounts of data, which it realized could be used to train an AI. In 2021, it acquired a deep learning company called Denovium, which became “the nucleus” that it built a proprietary AI around, Jonasson said.

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Go ahead, buck tradition. If typical healthcare roles aren’t your thing, you might wanna check out the latest episode of Game On! by Indeed. Michael Metzner—a physician turned producer for Grey’s Anatomy—discusses his career, dishes out advice, and offers insight on nontraditional healthcare roles. Check it out.