Amazon Web Services, an Amazon subsidiary, is launching a generative artificial intelligence tool focused on clinical documentation.
The product, AWS HealthScribe, will allow healthcare software providers to more easily build applications that use speech recognition and generative AI, the company said at its AWS Summit in New York on Wednesday.
HealthScribe will enable software vendors to use a single API to create transcripts and summaries of doctor-patient discussions—along with extracting key medical details such as terms and drug information—for entry into the electronic health record for general medicine and orthopedics, AWS said.
AWS Vice President of Database, Analytics and Machine Learning Swami Sivasubramanian said during a keynote speech Wednesday that clinicians can validate the accuracy of the summary before entering it in the EHR. Sivasubramanian said the product is in preview mode.
“We hear that one of the most common healthcare industry pain points is the amount of time it takes for clinicians to write detailed documentation for each patient visit,” Sivasubramanian said. “We wanted to make this easier to address this pain point for clinicians.”
The HIPAA-eligible technology can also allow clinicians to trace the origin of any generated text, the company said.
AWS said it had secured partnerships with 3M Health Information Systems to grow 3M’s ambient clinical documentation and virtual assistant software.
AWS also said it was working with ScribeEMR, a healthcare documentation company, and Babylon, an AI-enabled virtual diagnosis and medical appointments company that announced plans to go private in May, on similar offerings.
HealthScribe will be powered by Amazon Bedrock, a service for building generative AI applications. The company said its product will allow developers to integrate AI more easily in vendor offerings without needing to manage the underlying machine learning infrastructure or train against an organization’s own healthcare-specific large language model.
The announcement is the latest in a series of AI-related industry movement in the past week. Hippocratic AI, a generative AI company setting out to build a large language model for healthcare, announced it secured 10 partners and $15 million in new funding Tuesday.
GenHealth.ai, a generative AI company that spun off from 1upHealth in April, announced last week it secured early funding to produce its own large medical model. Venture capital firms Craft and Obvious Ventures led the round, which generated an undisclosed amount. GenHealth.ai touts its AI utility as a tool health insurance companies and providers can use for risk adjustment, care management and financial bookmarking.
