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Health Care AI Solved Note-Taking. Fixing the Core Business Will Be Harder
What challenges does health care still face when implementing AI?The excitement of ambient scribes and AI chatbots has started to wear off, and health care is running out of quick wins as it looks to construct this "new world."
While AI promises efficiency, health systems will have to put in significant time to unlock its full benefits.
Beyond note-taking tools, there are "very little success stories" of clinically implemented AI, said Dr. Regina Barzilay, distinguished professor of AI & Health in the Department of Computer Science at MIT's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the AI Faculty Lead at MIT's Jameel Clinic.
She told Newsweek that there are abundant stories of new AI algorithms that show promising results but few that have actually proven themselves beyond mere promise. Learn more
AI Impact Awards 2025: How 7 Health Care Winners Measure Impact
In 2020, researchers at the Collins Lab at MIT made a landmark discovery when they used AI to identify a new class of antibiotics. Phare Bio was born from that breakthrough, and has since leveraged AI to uncover two additional novel antibiotic classes.The company's model prioritizes the superbugs identified as the most dangerous by the CDC and the WHO, and predicts drug efficacy, toxicity and pharmacokinetics with high accuracy. Phare Bio has also developed AIBiotics, a generative AI platform that designs new antibiotics.
Ultimately, the company aims to improve the efficiency of antibiotic research and development, according to Dr. Akhila Kosaraju, its president and CEO.
How does it measure that? Ultimately, by "taking better and fewer shots on goal," Kosaraju told Newsweek. It often costs between $1.3 and $1.5 billion to get a single drug over the finish line for FDA approval.
"Those numbers are so high [because they] encompass all of the failures along the way to get to that one exceptional drug," Kosaraju said. "If we can reduce the number of shots on goal substantially, we can half or quarter the cost and time to get these drugs into clinical trials, and then ultimately to be FDA-approved."
To see the full list of AI Impact winners, visit the official page for Newsweek's AI Impact Awards. Learn more
