Synthetic intelligence startup Atmosphere Healthcare stated Tuesday it raised $70 million in a Collection B funding spherical to “give each healthcare employee AI superpowers.”
Present buyers Kleiner Perkins and the OpenAI Startup Fund led the San Francisco startup’s new funding spherical, with participation from Andreesen Horowitz and Optum Ventures. The spherical was pre-emptive, Atmosphere Healthcare CEO Mike Ng instructed Reuters.
Atmosphere Healthcare offers a set of software program instruments for hospitals and different healthcare organizations, powered by massive language fashions, the identical underlying expertise behind Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s hit ChatGPT chatbot.
ChatGPT, which was launched in late 2022, made generative AI a sensation with its capacity to pen sonnets and write emails, however many imagine its actual financial worth lies in enterprise functions like healthcare, finance and regulation. As an example, Google has launched generative AI fashions devoted to healthcare.
Atmosphere Healthcare’s flagship product, AutoScribe, is a real-time AI medical scribe used to generate medical notes. Different merchandise help in creating after-visit summaries, referrals to specialists and making certain medical data correspond to billing codes.
The corporate’s cofounders declined to provide specifics on what massive language mannequin supplier they’re utilizing to energy their answer. They did say they’ve custom-made, or “fine-tuned” their AI by medical specialty, so the product can cowl a variety of specialties and subspecialties.
Atmosphere Healthcare is at present deployed at organizations like College of California, San Francisco, John Muir Well being and Memorial Hermann Well being System, the corporate stated.
