AI

Jerry Shultz, Lightbeam Health Solutions' president, says the company's AI identifies COPD patients who need personalized interventions, reducing readmissions and realizing millions of dollars in savings for clients.

Before deciding how and when to adopt AI, Nicolas Ostrowski of Future Processing advises businesses to have a technology roadmap, sound data practices and strong cybersecurity in place.

Sigsense leverages AI to help lab managers better understand how lab instruments are used and how to optimize them for efficiency.

ReviR Therapeutics secures $30 million for its drug discovery platform. RetiSpec raises $10 million for its eye-diagnostics offering. SoundHealth scores $7 million for its acoustics medical device for nasal congestion.

Scopio Labs secured $42 million in Series D funding, and robotics company NAVIGANTIS closed a $12 million Series A round.

The tech giant, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Mass General Brigham and UW Health will develop multimodal AI foundation models utilizing Azure and Nuance.

Amid the trend of healthcare companies leveraging AI, Jerry Villacres, Manifold's VP of Sales, Cloud Solutions, cautions that they must first implement a sound data strategy to make the most out of those tools.

Mark Polyak, president of global data management at IPSOS, says LLMs can "talk" to patients about administrative tasks like scheduling, but bias and model compatibility must be addressed before clinical deployments.  

Harvard research associate Brian Spisak discusses how a "leadership-first, tech-last" approach can prevent organisations from deploying ticking time bombs.  

The three companies will collaborate with Mayo Clinic nurses to create a genAI documentation workflow tool that will integrate into Epic nursing workflows.