Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Oracle Health's Millennium Electronic Records System Gets AI Digital Assistant
Modern Healthcare: Oracle Health To Add Generative AI To Millennium EHR System
Oracle Health is adding generative artificial intelligence features to its Millennium electronic health record system. At its user conference Monday in Las Vegas, the company formerly known as Cerner highlighted the addition of a voice-enabled generative AI clinical digital assistant. ... Patients will be able to use the company's voice-enabled generative AI technology through the patient portal to schedule appointments, review labs and ask clinical questions. (Perna, 9/19)
Reuters: GE HealthCare Gets $44M Grant To Develop AI-Assisted Ultrasound Tech
GE HealthCare Technologies Inc has received a grant of more than $44 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop AI-assisted ultrasound technology, the company said on Monday. The grant will facilitate development of AI-assisted ultrasound imaging auto-assessment applications and tools to help address maternal and fetal health and respiratory diseases. (9/18)
Stat: Artificial Intelligence In Dentistry? AI Spots Cavities, Bone Loss Faster
Open wide, AI wants a look inside your mouth. A new wave of software is promising to supercharge dentists’ ability to spot decay and bone loss — and propose treatments earlier in the disease process. (Ross, 9/20)
Axios San Antonio: First Degree In AI, Medicine Comes To San Antonio
The first known dual degree in the U.S. to combine medicine and artificial intelligence is available in San Antonio. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and UTSA are teaming up to offer a combined doctor of medicine and master of science in artificial intelligence to form a five-year program. (Stringer, 9/19)
Axios: New Tool From Google's AI Lab Hunts For Genetic Disease Causes
A new program from Google's artificial intelligence lab DeepMind aims to tackle one of the toughest problems in genetics: sifting through the millions of variations in the human genome to predict those that ultimately cause disease. (Reed, 9/20)
MedPage Today: AI Has An Image Problem In Healthcare, Expert Says
Artificial intelligence (AI) has an image problem when it comes to healthcare, but it actually represents a big opportunity to improve things, Tom Lawry said at the Population Health Colloquium here. "When you think about everything that you've been reading, whether it's lay journals or clinical journals, there's a lot of talk about the [AI] threat, that we should go slower," Lawry, managing director at Second Century Technology in Seattle, said. The speed of change is hard to keep up with and many things still need to be figured out, "and we will -- we'll find the guardrails," he added. "But we should also be talking about what I call the 'existential opportunity'" of AI. (Frieden, 9/19)
