MedCity News January 14, 2025
In a sit-down interview at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference, Allen talked about a tool built by a company backed by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz.
Like many health system leaders, Intermountain Health’s Rob Allen is experimenting with and implementing artificial intelligence tools in his 34-hospital system, which also includes 400 clinics. The Salt Lake City, Utah-based health system has deployed clinical documentation and ambient AI technologies that help to automatically generate the patient note.
But in an interview during the J.P. Morgan Conference in San Francisco on Monday, Allen marveled at a technology that he hasn’t deployed yet: an AI nurse that communicates with patients. In other words, an AI tool that can build a relationship with a...