Apollo Hospitals Adopt AI Co-Pilots from Microsoft
As part of the recent partnership with Microsoft, Apollo Hospitals will welcome four AI co-pilots.
In a statement, the tech giant said it will support the hospital group develop and implement an artificial intelligence roadmap that will focus on expanding its Apollo remote healthcare platform globally and building recent technology solutions.
This engagement is part of a series of strategic partnerships that Microsoft has launched in the recent year in India. It recently pledged a $3 billion investment in cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence in the country over the next two years.
In addition to the Indian government, Microsoft has partnered with major industry players including public broadband service provider RailTel, conglomerate Mahindra Group, financial firm Bajaj Finance Ltd. and educational technology platform upGrad to “build a thriving AI ecosystem in India.”
The telehealth system of National Taiwan University Hospital uses artificial intelligence
National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) has integrated speech-to-text artificial intelligence into its telehealth platform.
The bright voice system on NTUH’s fourth-generation telehealth platform is based on voice recognition technology provided by Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest telecommunications service provider. Chunghwa’s healthcare-optimized technology was trained on voice data collected by the NTUH Telehealth Center.
The AI-based voice recognition feature can convert various languages used by the speaker, such as Mandarin, English, Taiwanese and accented Chinese, as well as medical terms and bilingual drug names.
This recent feature also integrates NTUH’s emergency prediction technology to predict possible emergency events within two weeks with almost 90% accuracy.
NEC Announces Novel Partnership in Artificial Intelligence in Pathology
The Japanese corporation NEC has established cooperation with a local artificial intelligence company developing solutions in the field of digital pathology.
In a statement, NEC said it will work with Biomy to enhance the latter’s cloud-based automated digital analysis platform DeepPathFinder to discover recent pathology biomarkers.
They will later offer the enhanced digital pathology platform to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and academic institutions.