Google launched new artificial intelligence tools for healthcare providers to search through medical documentation on Nov. 10, according to a Google Cloud blog post. Healthcare professionals can now preview Google's Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare, tools designed to streamline medical documentation review and analysis. The tools aim to reduce burnout and increase back-office and clinical practice productivity. Healthcare Natural Language Processing combs through documents to identify medical insights and extracts information about procedures, medications, vital signs and conditions. Companies can also use the tool to interpret unstructured digital text, such as identifying relevant information from a transcript of telehealth visits.

You may have heard about GPT-3 this summer, the new cool kid on the AI block. GPT-3 came out of OpenAI, one of the top AI research labs in the world which was founded in late 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others and later backed with a $1B investment from Microsoft. You've probably also heard about the ongoing AI revolution in healthcare, thanks to promising results in areas such as automated diagnosis, medical documentation and drug discovery, to name a few. Some have claimed that algorithms now outperform doctors on certain tasks and others have even announced that robots will soon receive medical degrees of their own! This can all sound far-fetched... but could this robot actually be GPT-3?

Emergency response data: RapidSOS, a startup whose software platform automatically transmits data from 911 callers to emergency responders, secured $25 million in new funding, led by the investment firm Energy Impact Partners in its Series B funding round. The company closed the round with $55 million in funding including $30 million collected last year. The funding accelerates RapidSOS's work partnering with thousands of public safety agencies, most major public safety software providers, and connected device companies to transform emergency response and disaster management Remote medical documentation: Tech-enabled remote documentation company Augmedix uses natural-language-processing technology and remote medical documentation experts to help reduce the burden of medical documentation for physicians. The San Francisco-based company landed $19 million in Series B funding that included investments from Redmile Group, McKesson Ventures, DCM Ventures, Wanxiang Healthcare Investments, and others. Augmedix provides clinicians with hardware, smartphones or Google Glass, to stream the clinic visit to a cloud-based platform.