Suki and Google Cloud are advancing clinical support technology to include patient summaries and a question-and-answer functionality.
The collaboration focuses on Suki's flagship product, Suki Assist, a clinical support tool. The technology will use Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform for patient summaries and clinician Q&A, becoming the first end-to-end clinical assistant. Suki Assistant also helps clinicians with documentation, coding, dictation and retrieving chart data.
"We at Google Cloud are truly excited to be partnering with Suki," said Aashima Gupta, global director of healthcare strategy and solutions at Google Cloud. "Their innovative use of generative AI technologies is pushing the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare."
Suki and Google Cloud aim to reduce administrative burden on clinicians and streamline how clinicians retrieve and understand patient data. The technology supports faster clinical decision-making.
Clinicians can ask questions like: "What medications is this patient taking for diabetes?" and receive answers right away based on EHR data and other medical references. Clinicians are starting to gain access to the technology's patient summarization feature. The companies expect a broader roll-out next year.
"Our goal is to make healthcare technology invisible and assistive, to give clinicians their time back to care for patients," said Punit Soni, founder and CEO of Suki. "Today marks a milestone in Suki’s history: becoming the industry's first end-to-end AI assistant. In partnership with Google Cloud, these latest features change the paradigm of how clinicians access and consume data that informs care decisions, giving them instant access to highly relevant, digestible insights."