MIT Spin-Out Applies AI to Chart Opinions of Unstructured Information

Layer Well being, an organization spun out of MIT, says its first product, Distill, makes use of synthetic intelligence to rapidly carry out any scientific, administrative, or analysis activity that requires chart evaluation from unstructured knowledge. Use instances embrace registry submissions, high quality measurement, curation of real-world proof, scientific doc enchancment, and income cycle administration. 

The startup is backed by $4 million in funding from GV (Google Ventures), Normal Catalyst, and Inception Well being, and amongst its beta prospects is Froedtert & the Medical School of Wisconsin well being community, which is utilizing Distill to assist high quality enchancment efforts. The platform is being utilized by the group’s nurse abstraction workforce throughout chart evaluation, serving to them extra successfully discover and submit knowledge to scientific registries. 

Layer Well being says that Distill integrates into present merchandise and workflows, ingesting scientific notes and analyzing them at scale. “Behind the scenes, Layer Well being’s machine studying (ML) algorithms leverage the ability of enormous language fashions (LLMs) to ship correct outcomes with out the necessity for labeled knowledge, decreasing improvement time from months to as little as a day. Distill additionally learns and adapts from buyer interactions, creating extremely environment friendly customer-specific fashions fine-tuned for particular use instances,” the corporate says. 

One other consumer the corporate cites is xCures, a well being expertise firm that’s utilizing Distill to prepare and construction well being knowledge for extra exact most cancers remedy suggestions and environment friendly scientific trial matching. Utilizing Layer’s language fashions skilled and validated on xCures’ distinctive knowledge, the corporate can extra precisely extract intricate and nuanced particulars from affected person medical information.

Layer Well being’s CEO is David Sontag, Ph.D., an MIT professor with greater than 100 revealed papers in AI and machine studying.