Google Cloud deepens collaboration with Suki to enhance clinical technology assistance.

• Suki, a health-care AI startup, announced a partnership with Google Cloud on Wednesday to expand beyond clinical documentation.
• Suki Assistant, the flagship product of Suki, enables doctors to document patient visits and convert them into clinical notes effortlessly.
• Suki is developing patient summary and Q&A features with the help of Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform through a partnership.

Suki, a health-care artificial intelligence startup, announced a new collaboration on Wednesday as part of its efforts to expand beyond clinical documentation.

Suki is developing patient summary and Q&A features with the help of Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, which enables developers to train, adjust, and deploy various AI models and applications.

Suki Assistant, the flagship product of Suki, enables doctors to document their patient visits and convert them into clinical notes, thereby relieving physicians from the burden of manually writing down all the information.

Google Cloud's new features will enable Suki to enhance the assistive technology clinicians use to care for patients, according to the startup.

It is the next frontier for the seven-year-old company.

"Punit Soni, CEO of Suki, revealed to CNBC that the company's clinical documentation tool was never just a tool, but rather an assistant designed to assist with documentation and potentially perform other tasks."

Soni stated that doctors can utilize Suki's platform to quickly ask questions and access a patient's medical history information.

With a single click, clinicians can access a comprehensive summary of a patient's biographical information, visit history, and reason for coming in, including details such as age, chronic conditions, past prescriptions, and other issues, such as "low back pain," using Suki's new feature.

Soni stated that automatically gathering all the data could save doctors 15 to 30 minutes they spend searching for it themselves.

Patients can receive more specific answers to their clinicians' questions by clicking Suki's Q&A button and submitting prompts such as "Show me his A1C over the last three months as a graph," "What vaccines did the patient take?" or "When was his last electrocardiogram?"

Starting Wednesday, a select group of clinicians will have access to Suki's patient summarization feature, with general availability coming early next year. Additionally, the new Q&A feature will also be generally available early next year.

Suki's Q&A feature will initially use individual patient data to answer questions, but the company plans to expand its scope in the future. Additionally, Suki's summarization and Q&A features will not require any additional cost to its customers.

According to Soni, the current trend in health care is a result of the AI-ification of the industry.

Suki's technology is utilized by 350 health systems and clinics in the U.S., and the company has tripled its client base this year, according to the company. The new offerings from Suki could help it differentiate itself in a highly competitive market.

Nearly 28 hours a week on administrative tasks, including almost nine hours on documentation, are a major cause of burnout for health-care workers across the U.S., prompting executives in the industry to seek solutions.

This year, the popularity of documentation tools that help reduce workloads, such as Suki's, has surged, and investors are taking notice.

In October, Suki raised $70 million in funding, while Abridge announced a $150 million funding round in February. Nuance Communications, a Microsoft subsidiary acquired for $16 billion in 2021, provides a popular AI documentation tool for doctors.

As the internet came into being, so too is AI emerging, according to Soni.

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