AI in Healthcare: HealthBench vs GPT-4o, Reddit Overdose Signals, MS Chatbot, DRAGON NLP, DeltaStem Cell Therapy, Breast Cancer Biomarkers, SDoH Extraction, Maternal RPM, Oncology Genomics — and more
Explore this week’s top breakthroughs in medical AI—from social media-based overdose prediction and AI-powered caregiver support to new cancer biomarkers and next-gen clinical benchmarks. Get concise, research-backed updates driving the future of healthcare.
📌 Key Highlights:
🩺 OpenAI’s HealthBench scores 5,000 clinical chats on 48k+ physician-rated points; GPT-4.1 nano beats GPT-4o at 1/25th cost.
🔍 OpenAI CTO Jakub Pachocki says LLMs now generate insights autonomously—a step toward economic AGI.
🐉 The DRAGON benchmark from Dutch academic centers tests 28 clinical NLP tasks; domain-tuned models score 0.77.
🌍 LLaMA (Meta AI) outperforms ClinicalBERT on social determinants of health across 4 institutions.
💥 Reddit data (1.7B comments) predicts fentanyl overdoses, correlating r = 0.89 with CDC stats.
📱 Various DHTs reviewed in IBD show reduced clinic visits and better adherence but no remission gain.
🧑⚕️ American College of Physicians (ACP) launches MSCarePartnerConnection, a 24/7 ChatGPT-powered caregiver bot.
🧬 Somite AI raises $47M (led by Khosla Ventures) to train DeltaStem on massive cell-signaling data.
🔬 Boehringer Ingelheim partners with Tempus AI, gaining access to its clinico-genomic platform.
🌬️ Huma acquires Aluna, integrating FDA-cleared spirometers and 150 U.S. clinics into its cloud.
🏭 DARPA, HHS, and ASPR fund 4 U.S. teams (e.g., Battelle, BrightPath, Rutgers, Cost Plus Drugs) to reshore generics.
🤰 Google and Drive Health pilot “Nurse Avery” in Cook County, equipping 56k at-risk pregnant women.
🧪 AI researchers scan 9,000 pathology slides and detect stromal patterns tied to poor ER+ breast cancer survival.
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