Vendor notebook: Developing enterprise AI agents with Google tools, and other news

Google said at a healthcare artificial intelligence roundtable it hosted Thursday that Agentspace is its fastest-growing artificial intelligence product. Launched earlier this year, the platform and its companion Vertex AI Model Garden allow enterprises to create agents that derive patient insights from multiple data sources. Girish Naganathan, chief technology officer and executive vice president at medical device developer Dexcom, said during the roundtable that the tools improve the personalization of the company's glucose monitoring devices and connect patient data to electronic health records, where primary care providers can access it. Ben Mabey, CTO of the biotech firm Recursion, added that organizations looking to use agentic AI developer tools could more quickly see a return on investment when their IT departments create agents to augment staff. "It's helping [IT] resolve tickets," he said. 

Microsoft added Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini to its Azure AI Foundry platform earlier this month. Many in the healthcare industry were skeptical of Grok AI when the startup owner, Elon Musk, suggested the LLM would play a role in healthcare and asked users on his X social media platform to upload medical images for testing. At the time, Grok was only available through the platform by subscription. While Grok received mixed reviews on accuracy, Microsoft said in its announcement that the new Grok models have deep domain expertise in healthcare, science and other sectors.

Corti, an AI infrastructure vendor, said it is joining the Coalition for Health AI, an industry-led coalition developing frameworks to further the safe adoption of health AI. The company said that through CHAI, it can help ensure safeguards that allow responsible innovation to scale across the healthcare system. "Too many applications today are adapted from general-purpose models built to serve all industries," Andreas Cleve, Corti's CEO and cofounder, said in a statement Thursday.

Ambience Healthcare said its new Coding-Aware AI scribe, powered by OpenAI AI reinforcement fine-tuning technology, is now generating medical codes with 27% greater accuracy than board-certified physicians. The company said in a statement that lost diagnosis coding and documentation errors cost the industry $19 billion. While listening to conversations during patient appointments, the AI uses RFT to identify billing codes. For the study, Ambience said it benchmarked the model against 18 experienced, board-certified physicians on ICD-10 coding accuracy.

Innovaccer announced that it is rolling out the general availability of its healthcare data interoperability platform, Gravity, to give healthcare organizations the power to unify data across clinical and operational systems with AI. Abhinav Shashank, the company's cofounder and CEO, explained in a Healthcare IT News Q&A on May 23 that the platform’s low-code/no-code developer studio and pretrained AI agents make it possible to launch the first use case in 90 days.

Nvidia and GE HealthCare announced a new collaboration to advance diagnostic imaging using Isaac, a medical device simulation platform, to develop autonomous X-ray and ultrasound applications. Nvidia said Isaac's pretrained models and physics-based simulations will help GE train, test and validate autonomous imaging system capabilities in a virtual environment before deploying them in the physical world. The goal of the partnership, according to a statement from GE Healthcare's Roland Rott, president and CEO of imaging, is to enhance the speed of development workflows and create tools that address healthcare's growing workloads and staffing shortages.

OpenAI launched a platform called HealthBench at the beginning of the month that evaluates the safety of health AI models. Trained by more than 5,000 conversations, HealthBench can simulate interactions between AI models and patients or clinicians. The company said in a statement that the product is designed to help healthcare organizations understand model behavior "in high-impact settings and help ensure progress is directed toward real-world benefit."

Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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