Healthcare Weekly AI News
June 16 - June 24, 2025This weekly update shows how agentic AI is changing healthcare. These smart systems can work on their own to complete complex medical tasks. They help doctors, researchers, and hospitals work better and faster.
One exciting project uses agentic AI for systematic reviews. Systematic reviews are big studies that look at lots of research papers to find answers to health questions. Doing these reviews by hand takes humans a long time. Now, an AI agent can do it automatically. This means scientists can get answers faster. It will help in finding new treatments and understanding diseases.
In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) introduced Elsa. Elsa is a new AI tool that helps FDA employees do their jobs better. It uses generative AI to help with many tasks. This tool will make the FDA work more efficiently for the American people.
Another company named Huma launched Hi Scribe. This is an AI agent that writes clinical notes and handles billing. It does this by listening to doctor-patient talks and turning them into notes. This saves time for doctors so they can focus on patients. It also helps with the billing process which can be complicated.
Ambience Healthcare made a big breakthrough in medical coding. Medical coding is when doctors turn what they do into codes for billing. Their new AI system is better than human doctors at this task. It was trained using special technology from OpenAI. The AI makes 27% fewer mistakes than humans. This is important because medical coding errors cost the U.S. healthcare system about $19 billion every year. The new AI could save a lot of money.
These developments show that AI agents are becoming valuable helpers in healthcare. They can do time-consuming jobs like research reviews and paperwork. This lets doctors spend more time with patients. The technology is improving quickly and helping make healthcare more efficient. The tools from this week show promise for better patient care in the future.