As ChatGPT makes its way into healthcare, researchers at Evanston, Ill.-based Northwestern University recently demonstrated three uses for large language models in medicine.
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Brazil's Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Israel's Sheba Medical Center and Canada's University Health Network joined Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinics data-sharing network.
Beaconcure, an artificial intelligence-powered clinical data platform developed in conjunction with Pfizer, raised $14 million in a series B financing round.
Medivis, an augmented reality medtech company, raised $20 million in a series A financing round that saw participation from Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Disney CEO Bob Iger.
Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, has been named chief of the new Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation at San Francisco-based UCSF Health.
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As artificial intelligence proliferates, many companies — including health systems — have been naming chief AI officers to oversee the new technology.
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is testing out generative artificial intelligence for patient portal messages and clinical notes and has used the technology to create a video.
Physicians are turning to ChatGPT to craft more empathetic responses to patients, The New York Times reported June 12.
Even with a rocky funding environment, some healthcare companies have been able to raise massive venture capital hauls.
ChatGPT and similar generative artificial intelligence technologies present a "bleak outlook for interoperability and fairness," a business tech professor wrote in Health Affairs.