Healthcare AI foundation model company Corti AI announced an integration with UpToDate by Wolters Kluwer, the point-of-care medical resource.
UpToDate will now be available as a feature of the Corti application programming interface, which healthcare companies can use to build AI applications. The integration will allow providers that use an AI application, like an ambient scribe, at the point of care to interact with UpToDate medical information.
UpToDate is accessible to clinicians in electronic health records and on mobile. UpToDate produces peer-reviewed content generated by over 7,400 clinicians, editors and reviewers about recent clinical, drug, patient and member information.
Corti’s AI is a foundation model, similar to ChatGPT or OpenAI. However, the model was built using exclusively healthcare data, which makes healthcare AI products more accurate than if they were built with a general-purpose foundation model.
Corti can be built into EHRs, healthcare apps, and even medical devices with more accuracy and fewer hallucinations than general products, according to the company.
Providers will now be able to query the UpToDate database through a chat function. The conversation is also a two-way street: Corti’s AI Assistant can surface relevant information according to the context of the patient visit.
“We will start looking up the parts of [UpToDate] that's relevant for your specialty and serve it real time inside in the interface, so you have your live second opinion assistant using Wolters Kluwer’s database of section and verified content, so you get this extra opinion backup service that's always there for you,” Andreas Cleve, CEO of Corti, said in an interview with Fierce Healthcare. “And obviously that, in turn, helps us ensure that the clinical documentation we'll do afterwards is even better.”
Like an ambient scribe, the Corti Assistant can record the conversation between provider and patient, takes notes and provides ICD-10 codes for billing. Additionally, the Corti Assistant does quality assurance of the visit, cross-checks practice guidelines, can chat with the provider during and after the visit and continuously adapts to provider preferences.
“Our founding thesis was very much like, if you could build an AI that could reason over healthcare so well that you could lower the access hurdle of getting access to medical expertise to build it into anything, and the entire world would then have access,” Cleve said.
Corti plans to continue working with Wolters Kluwer to expand clinicians' access to trusted medical information.
“We believe collaboration is a powerful force for transformation in healthcare, enabling us to unlock new opportunities to enhance patient outcomes and streamline care delivery,” Greg Samios, CEO of clinical effectiveness for Wolters Kluwer Health, said in a statement. "Working with innovative companies like Corti to integrate UpToDate into their ambient solution enables us to achieve our goal of breaking down silos in healthcare, and providing actionable solutions that directly improve the patient-provider interaction.“
Cleve said: “What we're trying to do is just to bring UpToDate into more and more eye contact with practitioners and people in residence who need to use UpToDate to ensure that they're doing the absolute best … for patients."