Clinical AI Assistants: What’s Available Now
Clinical Case Management
As of May 2025 the FDA has not approved any medical generative AI-based systems for general patient care. But more and more AI co-pilots that aim to assist clinicians are emerging:
Prof. Valmed (Validated Medical Information GmbH) – diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations [6]
Stage: Commercial launch in 2025
Regulatory: А first LLM clinical decision support system аpproved in EU – CE Class IIb medical device, not FDA-cleared
AMIE (Google DeepMind) – diagnostic reasoning and conversations, integrates textual and visual information, such as medical images
Stage: Research
Regulatory: Evaluations in simulated environments
Med-PaLM 2 (DeepMind) – answers clinicians’ questions with expert-level medical knowledge
Stage: Early research, piloted at Mayo Clinic [1]
Regulatory: No formal clearance [2]
Glass Health AI (Glass Health) [3] – generates potential diagnoses and treatment options, drafts clinical reasoning summaries
Stage: Beta/early commercial (by 2023 attracted 59,000+ users) [4]
Regulatory: No formal clearance
MedArena (Stanford/NEJM AI) – a platform for clinicians to compare multiple medical LLMs. Doctors submit questions and choose the better response from two different anonymized models [5]
Stage: Research (academic/preview platform for evaluation)
Regulatory: Not for direct patient care
Documentation and Administrative
AI assistants to reduce paperwork – generate clinical documentation – notes, reports, letters, patient instructions, insurance correspondence
Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Copilot (Microsoft) – “listens” to doctor-patient visits, generates summary and clinical notes [7]
Stage: Commercial, integrated into Epic EHR
Regulatory: No formal clearance required, HIPAA-compliant, used under physician oversight
Abridge AI – transcribes and summarizes clinical conversations into notes, drafts documentation, captures billing codes from doctor-patient dialogues [8]
Stage: Commercial. Deployed in major health systems
Regulatory: No formal clearance, needs provider validation
Suki Assistant – produces clinical documentation, retrieves information, assists with coding. Adopted by 350+ clinics in the US [9]
Stage: Commercial. Partnering with EHR and tech providers
Regulatory: No formal clearance. HIPAA-compliant
Doximity DocsGPT – drafts clinical paperwork and communications, auto-generates referral letters, insurance pre-authorization appeals, patient instructions, etc.
Stage: Beta. Available to verified clinicians [10]
Regulatory: No formal clearance, HIPAA-compliant
Hippocratic AI – automated patient outreach and calls [11]
Stage: Early deployment with hospitals, insurers, etc.
Regulatory: No clinical clearance
