AI in clinical care: 7 real deployments

Samsung is piloting an AI health coach that reads sleep, activity and vital-sign data inside the Samsung Health app while avoiding medical advice.

UC San Diego researchers used teleoperated humanoid robots to perform gallbladder surgery in a live-animal preclinical trial.

Reported: Two live-pig procedures succeeded: one paired a humanoid with a human assistant and one used two humanoids.

Gates Foundation and OpenAI committed $50M to deploy AI for triage, clinical decision support and admin reduction for frontline workers in 1,000 African primary care clinics by 2028, starting in Rwanda then rolling into Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria.

Doctronic continues phase one of its AI doctor prescribing pilot in Utah with physician review, after the state Medical Licensing Board's suspension request was denied.

Brazil's Minas Gerais state runs the Saude Mental Digital AI CBT chatbot inside its Family Health Strategy public primary care system, now evaluated with a fuzzy regression discontinuity study of its effect on anxiety and depression symptom scores.

Proprietary Orinoco AI platform coordinating care for Medicare Advantage members

India's eSanjeevani national telehealth service runs AI-assisted teleconsultations at population scale, including AI-enabled TB detection inside the National TB Elimination Programme.

Reported: 282 million AI-assisted teleconsultations processed; AI-enabled TB detection has cut adverse outcomes by 27% inside the National TB Elimination Programme