Maverick's Update

On April 27, 2022, the HHS Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) celebrated its 18th birthday. ONC shares its birthday with Eric Schmidt, who knows quite a bit about information technology (he had a 19-year long tenure at Google and Alphabet, among other things), but Mr. Schmidt is older than 18 years old. Maybe because Mr. Schmidt had a head start on ONC, he is much farther along in applying artificial intelligence (“AI”) to the healthcare system. In the One Thoughtful Paragraph below, we explore how people who are much older than 18 may soon discover AI in their lives.

Other healthcare AI news (that is intelligent but not artificial) this week:

• A new AI model used by Boston Children’s Hospital can predict when you are going to blow off your kid’s doctor appointment.

• Getting more health care at home just got more possible. Biofourmis, an AI-enabled remote monitoring and digital therapeutics company, raised $300 million, bringing its valuation to $1.3 billion. Read more here.

• Your health care story just got easier to tell, so your doctor has less guessing to do. Mendel, a startup that uses AI to read unstructured data in medical records, raised $40 million. The idea is to accelerate a new product called Resolve, which can make sense of and consolidate clinical information stored in many formats and different systems, to create a longitudinal health record of a patient. Read more here.

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