Welcome back to AI 411, a monthly roundup of artificial intelligence (AI) announcements from across the healthcare industry.
Firm Nordic Consulting recently released a survey of 152 providers, which found that while 71% of respondents use some AI in their organizations, 52% said their system needs more development or growth.
On that note, here is your roundup of health-related AI updates from April.
Merck and Harvard. Biotech company Merck and the Massachusetts-based Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School announced on April 1 they have come together to create multimodal foundation AI models that can interpret information from evidence knowledge graphs to find new biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases.
Mount Sinai. The New York-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai announced on April 2 the opening of the AI Small Molecule Drug Discovery Center, an institute that will work to integrate AI in drug discovery.
Plenful. Health tech Plenful, which developed an AI platform to help with behind-the-scenes healthcare operations issues like compliance with the federal 340B program and prior authorization, said on April 30 it had raised $50 million in a Series B round. The company’s total funding is now $76 million.
Proprio. AI-based surgical tech company Proprio received a second FDA clearance for its medical device Paradigm on April 8. Surgeons can now use Paradigm to take a “3D, dynamic, and segmental” scan of a patient’s anatomy and assess their work in real time.
Risa Labs. Tech company Risa Labs, whose AI platform helps automate the prior authorization process for patients with cancer, announced a $3.5 million seed funding round on April 17.
Seattle Children's Hospital. On April 7, the hospital announced the implementation of an AI agent called Pathway Assistant that pulls data from treatment guidelines about symptoms to provide clinicians with information about treatment options in real time. The tech uses Google Cloud’s Vertex AI with Gemini models.
TrustCare and Suki. Mississippi-based TrustCare announced on April 3 it would implement ambient AI health tech Suki’s new AI assistant across its health system. The new tool, which offers an AI scribe, creates a code and orders a prescription after a clinician speaks it during an appointment.
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