Amazon One Medical, working with the online retail company's technology teams, developed artificial intelligence tools for its clinicians to help them save time.
Amazon worked with providers at its One Medical division to develop real-world AI solutions that simplify provider workflows while enhancing patient experiences, the company announced Tuesday at HLTH.
Amazon One Medical’s proprietary electronic health record system, 1Life, enables Amazon’s technology teams to continuously iterate, test, and refine the tools available to Amazon One Medical providers.
Amazon One Medical’s AI technology is powered by AWS generative AI services including Amazon Bedrock and AWS HealthScribe.
Clinicians at One Medical use AWS HealthScribe to help capture the context and details discussed during patient visits in real time. The provider then reviews the visit notes, updates as needed, and approves the notes before submitting them.
The AI tools also can read, label and summarize lengthy medical records received from outside of Amazon One Medical, surfacing relevant details like screening exams, results, and current and/or previous medications, according to the company in a blog post.
The company also leveraged AI to enable responsive patient communication: Care teams promptly respond to patient messages with friendly and detailed notes they can customize before sending.
“As a physician, building trusting relationships with my patients has always been the most rewarding part of my work,” said Andrew Diamond, M.D., chief medical officer, Amazon One Medical in a statement. “With the support of our AI tools, we’ve implemented into our custom electronic health record, I can sit down with a patient, make eye contact, and have an uninterrupted conversation—free from typing notes or reviewing lengthy records. By reducing these distractions, Amazon One Medical clinicians can focus on why many of us became doctors in the first place—to develop caring and personal relationships with our patients to help them get and stay healthy.”
Avandra launches out of stealth to organize global medical images
Startup Avandra developed the largest federated network for de-identified medical imaging and clinical data. The company's network aims to organize global medical images and create a data ecosystem for research and innovation.
Avandra, which announced it launched out of stealth at HLTH on Tuesday, says it uses de-identification and tokenization solutions to securely deliver aggregated, multimodal data to power the future of health.
The startup's medical image ecosystem was built as a data marketplace for biopharma companies, medical researchers and AI companies. It will supply medical images to assist with things like clinical trial design, offer diverse data sets and analyses for research, and train and validate algorithms using real patient data to enhance AI in healthcare.
In tandem with its launch, Avandra closed a collaboration with Datavant, a health data platform company.
“Imaging serves as a clinical point of truth and is central to most health care diagnoses. Yet, researchers face significant challenges in accessing and sorting through the trillions of medical images and reports to find the specific patient studies relevant to their research, even within the same medical system,” said Ryan Tarzy, founder and CEO of Avandra in a statement. “Avandra unlocks access to the valuable insights currently hidden within medical imaging. By streamlining the sharing process and prioritizing patient data protection, we aim to foster a secure, collaborative medical research ecosystem that responsibly drives forward innovation.”
Wolters Kluwer unveils new AI functions for UpToDate, hospital enterprise
UpToDate, the medical literature platform, is rolling out an AI feature so clinicians can easily find relevant passages on the trusted medical literature site.
The AI tool is integrated into the search function of UpToDate so that when a clinician searches the medical literature, they are presented with the exact sentences from the most relevant articles.
Wolters Kluwer, owner of UpToDate and Medi-Span, gave a demonstration of the new product. When a clinician queried the database, the first results to appear were highlighted excerpts from the medical literature that linked to the related article.
“The important part about it is they're getting to exactly the verbatim extract from up to date. It's not generative, it's not synthesized, it's not hallucinated,” Greg Samios, president and CEO of Wolters Kluwer’s Clinical Effectiveness business, told Fierce Healthcare.
Wolters Kluwer also announced an enterprise AI solution for hospital systems that can link clinical behaviors and outcomes.
“We're able to now show a hospital system trends in their clinical behaviors and usage patterns, and then we're able to benchmark that against other hospital systems, or within their own hospital system, to show where you might have differences in what your clinician behaviors are,” Samios said.
Comma soft launches SARA for secure period tracking post-Dobbs
Women’s health startup Comma began in 2018 when founder, Miller Morris, was a graduate student in public health. Morris studied the challenges of menstruating people living in rural Kenya, who often struggled with finding period products that met the needs of their waste management systems.
After completing her degree, and working on public health efforts to combat COVID-19 for two years, Morris devised a concept for a compostable period product using biodegradable plastic. But Morris saw an opportunity to create more than a consumer product.
Comma developed a secure cycle tracking app called SARA, named for Morris’ older sister, that could help women understand their cycles and send them compostable period products in sync with their cycles. Patients can also opt in to sharing the data with relevant healthcare providers.
“Right as we were starting the development of creating a more secure cycle tracking app looking at HIPAA … Roe v. Wade was overturned, and the consequences of commodifying period data were all of a sudden even more dire than they already had been, especially in states like Tennessee, which is where I'm from and where I live,” Morris said. “And so we knew pretty quickly that we needed to be thinking about secure software and a secure digital infrastructure as the foundation of Comma.”
SARA is currently available to a cohort of less than 100 women. Comma launched SARA as a web application to give women the ability to use a private browser to have the most secure experience possible.
SARA will be available to the general public on Nov. 1.