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STAT reports a leadership exodus at Epic, highlighted by Sumit Rana’s departure and other executive exits, fueling questions about the company’s direction amid health-tech talent churn; the issue also covers LifeMD’s GLP-1 telehealth controversy, Nabla naming a new CEO as AI competition intensifies, notable hires across Aledade and TytoCare, and a broader health-tech funding and policy roundup.
Epic Systems filed a federal lawsuit against Health Gorilla and several clients, alleging fraud and breach of contract after nearly 300,000 Epic-managed patient records were accessed by individuals posing as healthcare providers and used for financial gain rather than treatment, highlighting ongoing data-security concerns in health information networks.
Epic Systems, a $4.6 billion health records giant, is developing a suite of 60 generative AI tools, including a prototype coding assistant powered by GPT-4, to streamline medical coding processes in hospitals. While the AI tool can suggest codes, it still requires human oversight and calibration due to potential inaccuracies. Epic aims to alleviate the burden on clinicians and address staffing shortages in healthcare through generative AI applications, but human touch remains crucial for complex cases. The company's incumbent advantage and partnerships with Microsoft and startup Abridge position it as a key player in the evolving landscape of AI in healthcare.
Microsoft and Epic Systems are bringing OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model into healthcare for use in drafting message responses from healthcare workers to patients and for analyzing medical records while looking for trends. GPT-4 will allow doctors and healthcare workers to automatically draft message responses to patients and bring natural language queries and "data analysis" to SlicerDicer, which is Epic's data-exploration tool that allows searches across large numbers of patients to identify trends that could be useful for making new discoveries or for financial reasons.