2024 saw the rise of many generative AI applications in various industries, including healthcare, driving work and operational efficiencies like never before.
It is also one of the technology solutions that came out of an accelerator programme by the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and 22Health Ventures. Interestingly, the clinical AI copilot might have been...
An AI startup supported by conglomerate SK Group has introduced what could be the first pharmacy-specific platform powered by generative AI in South Korea.
Intended for use by professionals in the pharmaceutical industry, including researchers and pharmacists, the search platform called Cheiron is the flagship AI solution by PhynX Lab, a Silicon Valley-based venture under SK Networks.
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Collaborative research in Asia has called for prudence in using popular large language model-based (LLM) chatbots as part of public health research and response.
In a study, which findings were published in BMJ, researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, RMIT University in Vietnam, and the National University of Singapore explored whether or not LLMs bridge or exacerbate the digital...
Woebot Health, maker of an AI-powered mental health chatbot, announced it signed a three-year agreement with Ohio-based nonprofit pediatric healthcare system Akron Children's to provide pediatric mental health support to adolescents 13 to 17 years.
Woebot's nonprescription digital mental health tool includes content specific to teens, including media literacy, bullying in school settings, and...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it is launching S.A.R.A.H, or Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health, a generative AI assistant designed to provide information on major health topics such as healthy lifestyle habits and mental health.
The prototype health AI can communicate in eight languages and is available on any device.
Topics it touches on include cancer, heart disease, lung...
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a statement from Pager.
Virtual care and services navigation company Pager Health announced its developed three generative AI applications for payers built on Google Cloud, dubbed Chat Summation, FAQ Bot and Sentiment Analysis.
Chat Summation is a clinical documentation tool that summarizes patient interactions and provides notes, which the...
Hong Kong-based Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), one of China's national research institutes, has developed a large language model-based chatbot to assist doctors in making medical diagnoses and treatments.
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The chatbot, CARES Copilot 1.0, is built based on Meta's Llama 2 LLM. Trained using 100 GPUs from Huawei and...
ORLANDO – AI-enabled virtual care assistants are reshaping patient care and augmenting healthcare professionals' capabilities, but providers need to know how to build trust as the technologies evolve, experts said during the HIMSS24 preconference Virtual Care Forum on Monday.
Matt Cybulsky, founder and consultant at Ionian Healthcare Consulting, led the discussion on building trust in virtual...
Patient communication platform Artera, formerly Well Health, announced it has partnered with GPT-enabled conversational AI provider Hyro to launch Artera Care Assist, an AI-powered virtual assistant that can be embedded into health providers' websites to answer common patient questions.
Artera offers a two-way communication hub for patients and healthcare organizations to connect. The platform...
Hyro, maker of a GPT-enabled conversational AI provider for healthcare, announced it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Macquarie Capital, bringing the company's total funding to $35 million.
Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures and Black Opal Ventures, alongside existing and new investors, also participated in the round.
Dan Philips, executive director at Macquarie Capital, will join...
