GoodLabs / Confluent

GoodLabs, in collaboration with Confluent, offers AI-powered solutions primarily focused on enhancing medical education and clinical skill development, as well as real-time data streaming for various healthcare operations.

• What it does: GoodLabs provides a virtual medical training platform that utilizes AI patients for clinical skill refinement. These AI patients have validated medical histories and can engage in live interactions, including synchronous avatars linked to speech generators. Additionally, GoodLabs Swift is an extensible medical AI pipeline that uses a conversation-trained large language model to extract symptoms from patient-physician dialogues, which are then used to classify syndromes. This pipeline can also automate SOAP note creation and billing, and assist with test ordering and diagnosis. Confluent’s underlying data streaming platform facilitates the real-time processing and governance of healthcare data, including HL7 and FHIR formats.
• Who it is for: The virtual training platform is designed for institutions involved in training and employing medical professionals, such as universities, hospitals, healthcare clinics, and urgent care centers. Confluent’s data streaming capabilities are applicable to a broader range of healthcare entities, including health insurance companies for claims processing, telemedicine providers, and organizations aiming for a single patient view.
• How it fits a clinical or practice workflow: For medical education, the virtual AI patient platform allows learners to practice clinical skills and prepare for exams. In clinical settings, it can be used for the orientation of new medical staff and ongoing training. GoodLabs Swift aims to reduce administrative tasks for physicians by automating documentation and billing, and to enhance diagnostic accuracy through AI-assisted test ordering and diagnosis. Confluent’s data streaming platform integrates and processes large volumes of healthcare data in real time, supporting applications like real-time claims management, predictive analytics, and seamless patient admission, discharge, and transfer processes.
• Notable capabilities: Key capabilities include interactive AI patient avatars for clinical training, real-time symptom extraction and syndrome classification from patient-physician conversations, and automation of administrative tasks like SOAP note creation. The Confluent platform provides a HIPAA-ready, cloud-native data streaming service that can handle complex data from multiple sources, enabling real-time data integration and insights for various healthcare use cases.

Reviewed by Pouyan Golshani, MD — Interventional Radiologist