Health AI company Suki rolled out two new features to its Suki AI Assistant powered by Google Cloud.
The new patient summary and Q&A features help propel Suki's technology beyond an ambient documentation tool to a general AI assistant for providers, according to the company.
The features are powered by Google Cloud Vertex AI platform, a fully-managed AI development platform, which offers developers the latest version of Google’s Gemini model, as well as third party and open models.
Google Cloud will power the new search function within the Suki AI Assistant product to quickly pull information from the patient’s medical record and from the medical literature. Starting in 2025, providers will be able to ask questions to their Suki Assistant, like when a patient’s last mammogram was or to query if two specific drugs interact, and the clinician will receive an answer within seconds, according to the companies.
Google AI will also support a new patient summary feature that allows clinicians to review a concise overview of the patient’s medical history and recent visits before the patient comes into the office.
“A clinician can prepare for an upcoming patient appointment by viewing a concise summary of the patient’s past appointments in Suki,” Punit Soni, founder and CEO of Suki, said in an email to Fierce Healthcare. “The summary includes pertinent details from those appointments, saving clinicians time and mental energy from having to manually review individual encounter notes."
Suki says it's the first end-to-end clinical AI assistant on the market with a search and patient summary feature. The assistant also offers documentation, coding, retrieving patient chart data and dictation capabilities.
“Our goal is to make healthcare technology invisible and assistive, to give clinicians their time back to care for patients,” Soni said in a statement. “Today marks a milestone in Suki’s history: becoming one of the industry’s first end-to-end AI assistants. In partnership with Google Cloud, these latest features change the paradigm of how clinicians access and consume data that informs care decisions, giving them instant access to highly relevant, digestible insights. Suki will continue to work with a variety of best in class AI models to transform clinician administrative workflows, lifting the burden from clinicians so they are free to focus their energies on patient care.”
The patient summary feature is currently being tested among select physicians in health systems, and the product will be rolled out to other customers in 2025.
The Q&A features will be available for Suki customers beginning in 2025. Both new features will be integrated into the existing Suki AI Assistant and will be provided at no additional cost.
“Google is widely regarded as the leader in search and has very sophisticated technology to search across data sources, formats, etc,” Soni said. “As Suki started building these capabilities that required searching and summarizing large volumes of data, we naturally turned to Google to collaborate with us on these features.”
"We at Google Cloud are truly excited to be partnering with Suki," Aashima Gupta, global director of Healthcare Strategy and Solutions at Google Cloud said in a statement. "Their innovative use of our generative AI technologies is pushing the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare.