AI Healthcare Startups
Organizations
Health AI Partnership in association with the Duke School of Medicine. HAIP received initial funding in 2022 from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to establish this community resource.
Hippocratic.ai is backed with $50M to build a specialized LLM for healthcare. (See Techcrunch May 2023 “Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare”)
Hippocratic AI is the new state of the art (SOTA) model, outperforming GPT-4 on 105 of 114 healthcare exams and certifications.
Corti.AI an AI assistant for healthcare clinicians, raised $60m.
With an AI trained on +16 million patients and +550,000 hours of unique consultation audio, Corti’s predictive capabilities can enhance the experience of both healthcare professionals and their patients
Generative AI in Healthcare
Synthpop supports patient-centered care with fine-tuned GPT language models to streamline and enhance your clinical workflows. Raised $2M in August 2023. See explanation post by Elad Farber
AI Checkup substack authors Justin Norden, Jon Wang, and Ambar Bhattacharyya write Where Generative AI Meets Healthcare: Updating The Healthcare AI Landscape a detailed breakdown of interesting generative AI startups
Healthcare Companies Already Using AI
Medical Futurist Companies to Watch
The well-written newsletter The Medical Futurist regularly produces interesting and helpful summaries on the state of digital health and AI. Director Dr. Bertalan Meskó has assembled a team that tracks the developments and writes useful takeaways.
CBInsights100 Most Promising AI Startups
related to healthcare, such as Atomic AI, Atropos Health, Generate Biomedicines, Navina, Subtle Medical, Turbine, XtalPi, Aqemia.
Companies and Apps
A few weeks ago, I saw a live demo of Nabla with a real doctor and a fake patient pretending that they had back pains. When a physician starts a consultation, they hit the start button in Nabla’s interface and forget about their computer.
In addition to the physical examination part, a consultation also includes a long discussion with a bunch of questions about what brings you here and your medical history. At the end of the consultation, there might also be recommendations and prescriptions.
see MedAssistant at https://doc.intelligahealth.com
MedAssistant, we grant physicians free beta access, enabling them to harness the power of GPT-4. The model can assist physicians in analyzing medical records, generating reports, answering patients’ queries, and much more, thereby enhancing healthcare delivery.
via a comment at Bertalan Mesko
Physician-grade AI: OpenEvidence has read and analyzed every medical study ever published and gives you the answers you need, grounded in high quality peer-reviewed sources.
Founded in 2021 by former finance AI Kensho founder Daniel Nadler to compete with UpToDate, which is powered by 7,000 human experts (full text in Pocket)
https://mlformds.com/
ML for MDs
Photon Health https://www.photon.health/
HIPAA-compliant ChatGPT $1300/month for a service that encrypts your queries before sending them.
We offer API endpoints that are equivalent to OpenAI’s. When you use our endpoints, any PHI in your messages is automatically substituted with tokens prior to being sent to OpenAI. Upon receiving a response, these tokens are replaced with the original data to construct the complete response. Neither your messages nor your PHI are stored on our systems.
Medical transcription company ABridge founded in 2019 by Shiv Rao, a practicing cardiologist, raised more then $850M for an AI-powered medical scribe. It’s not clear what their long-term advantage is over other the general purpose LLMs
Big Pharma
Pharma AI Readiness Index: Who’s best-positioned for the AI boom?