US-based health and community care technology company WellSky has teamed up with Google Cloud to integrate generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI) technology into its solutions.
Through the collaboration, WellSky will gain access to new technologies and tools that help address current and future challenges across the care continuum.
WellSky will use Google Cloud’s secure cloud technologies, advanced data analytics tools, machine learning capabilities, and its enterprise-ready AI platform, Vertex AI.
Vertex AI provides developers and data scientists with access to generative AI models, allowing them to build and customise their generative AI applications.
WellSky aims to better anticipate client needs to enable better care for patients.
The partnership with Google Cloud would advance WellSky’s efforts over the past few years, including significant investment in modernising its IT infrastructure.
Google Cloud healthcare and life sciences managing director Ryan Terry said: “Innovative solutions that make use of AI will dramatically improve healthcare over the next decade.
“WellSky is pioneering the integration of new AI tools, including responsible generative AI, to support human expertise, amplify capabilities, and drive innovation across healthcare to impact better outcomes for providers, clinicians, and patients.”
WellSky said the AI tools embedded into its solutions would automate recurring tasks that can be done without human interaction.
The company plans to equip healthcare providers with immediate access to contextually relevant historical patient information, trends, and anomalies.
Also, WellSky is partly automating the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) evaluation used in home healthcare, allowing caregivers to spend more time with patients.
Google Cloud’s approach to governance and privacy policies is designed for its customers to retain control over how Google’s tools are used.
It allows monitoring and reviewing generative AI model outputs and the use of safety guardrails to enable responsible use in a customer’s use case and context.
WellSky CEO Bill Miller said: “AI technology can serve as a fundamental tool in making healthcare insights more accessible and meaningful for clinicians.
“As with any tool at our disposal, we will implement it in a way that is focused on helping caregivers improve patient outcomes, provide more effective services, and increase efficiency.
“We understand AI has an important role to play in healthcare innovation, but we also understand that we bear a considerable responsibility for how we implement AI in a secure and ethical way.
“WellSky is steadfastly committed to following the principles of privacy, fairness, reliability, equity, transparency, and accountability in the design, development, and deployment of our solutions.”
