AI healthcare solutions are coming to the Philippines
Everyone’s getting an artificial intelligence, including your doctor.
Senti AI announced it signed a memorandum of agreement with Karl Group Holdings.
Senti and Karl Group IT subsidiary Techne Systems will provide AI healthcare solutions to the Philippines under this agreement.
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AI assistants or “co-pilots” will become an essential tool for medical professionals, letting them attend to more patients.
Nowadays, many companies are developing this technology, such as MIT Alumni-founded Ambience Healthcare.
Ambience CEO Mike Ng developed the tool to help doctors focus on helping the ill.
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The company aims to change that with its AI healthcare platform that automates these activities before, during, and after patient visits.
The AI co-pilot can handle pre-charting and real-time AI scribing. It can likewise aid in navigating thousands of rules for selecting insurance billing codes.
The Ambience platform can also send after-visit summaries to patients and their families in different languages. As a result, it can update everyone regarding a person’s condition automatically.
“That’s one of the features that physicians love most, “ co-founder Nikhil Buduma told MIT News.
“We had to go back and rewrite all of our algorithms to be coding-aware. There are literally tens of thousands of coding rules that change every year and differ by specialty and contract type.”
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The MIT News website says clinicians using Ambience save two to three hours daily on documentation. It likewise reports lower levels of burnout and the formation of higher-quality relationships with patients as a result of using the platform.
CEO Mike Ng aims to increase access to the best clinical information in the US with the AI healthcare tool: “We hope to help scale the knowledge of the leading specialists in the country through an AI infrastructure layer, especially as these models become more clinically intelligent.”
The Philippines may also gain such transformative benefits as Senti AI and other local firms share similar services nationwide.
