Health systems continue to look to Big Tech to help with artificial intelligence and clinical documentation. Here are eight new partnerships Becker's reported on in the past month.
1. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, Amazon, and more joined the Coalition for Health AI, an organization looking to increase transparency on healthcare AI, as founding partners March 13. Leaders from Mayo Clinic, Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health and Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care became board members of the Microsoft-backed nonprofit March 4.
2. A leader from Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare said March 12 that physicians' reactions have been "generally pretty positive" to a new generative AI project with Google.
3. Stanford Health Care said March 11 it is rolling out an AI copilot from Microsoft's Nuance enterprisewide after a successful pilot with the technology.
4. Leaders from Duke Health, Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine and more formed a new consortium March 11 with Microsoft called the Trustworthy and Responsible AI Network to ensure AI is being used safely and fairly.
5. Renton, Wash.-based Providence said March 8 it is working with Microsoft and its company Nuance to accelerate AI innovation at scale.
6. Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare said March 7 it is the first U.S. health system to implement Epic on a large scale on Mac platforms.
7. Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health said March 6 it is partnering with Google Cloud to harness the power of AI in enhancing accessibility to essential medications for chronic conditions.
8. Stanford Health Care said Feb. 29 it is testing out Apple's new headset, the Vision Pro, in its surgical practice.