This content was produced by Insights, the custom content arm of MIT Technology Review. It was not written by MIT Technology Review's editorial staff. How ambient AI assistants are supporting clinicians to save time, reduce burnout, and enhance treatment, restoring the doctor-patient experience. For many clinicians, administration is a whole job on its own. From examination findings to proposed treatments, test results, and patient education, clinicians must maintain accurate, clear, and timely clinical records every step of the way.

After setting out to examine digital healthcare from the inside by launching its own women's health clinic as an app last year, French startup Nabla is executing the next step in a planned pivot to b2b -- announcing today that it's opened its machine learning tech stack to other digital health businesses and healthcare providers so they can offer what it bills as "personalized medicine". Nabla's AI-powered patient communications and engagement/retention platform is designed to support clinicians to deliver a more continuous, data-driven service, whether the client is offering real-time telehealth consultations or delivering a service to patients via asynchronous, text-based messaging. Nabla's messaging and teleconsultation communication modules sit as a layer atop the customer healthcare service, ingesting and structuring patient data -- with its machine learning software supporting clinicians with real-time prompts and visualizations, as well as offering ongoing patient outreach features to extend service provision. The startup argues its approach can improve medical outcomes by supporting healthcare professionals to be able to ask relevant questions during a consultation, based on the AI's ability to aggregate patient activity and surface contextually relevant data -- and afterwards, with features like automated transcription and by suggesting updates a clinician could make to a patient's medical file. It likens the platform's capabilities to having a really attentive family doctor who knows their patient's full medical history and situation -- and has a fault-less memory for all that detail.

Facebook's Perfect, Impossible Chatbot Facebook is quietly trying to develop the most useful virtual assistant ever, in a project that illustrates the current limitations of artificial intelligence. Amazon's Alexa can summon an Uber and satisfy a four-year-old's demand for fart noises. Siri can control your Internet-connected thermostat. Each serve millions of users each day. But a lucky group of around 10,000 people, mostly in California, know that Facebook's assistant, named M, is the smartest of the bunch.

Amazon's Alexa can summon an Uber and satisfy a four-year-old's demand for fart noises. Siri can control your Internet-connected thermostat. Each serve millions of users each day. But a lucky group of around 10,000 people, mostly in California, know that Facebook's assistant, named M, is the smartest of the bunch. Recommend and reserve a romantic hotel in Morocco that's also suitable for small children?

Someone sent a Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte to my desk at work. Which was weird because I didn't ask for it. And even weirder because it came from some of the most sophisticated technology in the world: M, the artificial intelligence–driven virtual assistant Facebook is building into its Messenger app. AI, I thought, was supposed to outsmart and kill us, not send autumnal coffee beverages. So forgive me for being a little suspicious of the grande red cup at my desk. I've had M on my phone for about a month now. Before it becomes pervasive, I wanted to understand it, and ask questions of it. I've pushed it incredibly hard.