AI in Healthcare May 22, 2020
After seeing telehealth visits skyrocket 3,700% in April over March—most of them COVID-related—the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is touting its use of AI to help patients retain and apply doctors’ guidance offered during virtual visits.
The 40-hospital health system is using technology developed by Abridge, a local AI startup of which a UPMC cardiologist is a co-founder and in which UPMC is an early investor.
The software works by recording calls, automatically transcribing relevant spoken segments and sending summaries to patients via an app, according to a UPMC announcement.
The UPMC cardiologist and company co-founder, Shiv Rao, MD, says the idea partly grew out of his own family’s experience...