Ubie’s Generative AI: Empowering Healthcare Professionals | The Check Up with Google ’25
- Introduction to Ubie [00:13]: Ubie is a health tech startup founded seven years ago in Japan, with the mission of developing a healthcare guide for everyone.
- Addressing Healthcare Challenges [00:28]: The founder, a neurologist, experienced being overwhelmed by clinical duties and endless paperwork. Ubie leverages AI to transform patient experiences and streamline healthcare operations. This is particularly crucial in Japan due to an aging population and shrinking workforce, especially in rural areas, putting strain on hospitals.
- Ubie’s Solutions [00:54]:
- Consumer-facing service: Offers intuitive AI-driven questionnaires to guide individuals to the right healthcare providers at no cost. It has 12 million monthly active users across Japan and a growing presence in the US.
- Business solution: Built on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform, trusted by over 1,800 medical institutions to enhance operational efficiency.
- Empowering Healthcare Professionals [01:24]: Ubie aims to help healthcare professionals focus on patients by making administrative tasks like inputting medical records and writing referrals easier.
- Real-World Implementation [02:22]: Ubie focuses on real-world implementation in clinical settings, prioritizing on-the-ground issues and refining user-friendly interfaces designed with a team of physicians.
- Leveraging Generative AI [02:37]: Ubie uses generative AI, including Google’s Gemini models, to create products that simplify administrative tasks. These tasks are not only text-based but also extend to multimodal inputs such as audio and images. A mobile interface enables direct use of generative AI, with outputs seamlessly linked to EHR systems.
- Impactful Case Studies:
- Kju General Hospital: AI-powered discharge summary tools reduced the time nurses spent on these tasks by 42.5% [03:19]. This also decreased their psychological burden by 27.2%, potentially reducing burnout risk.
- Yokuruda Hospital: Voice transcription and summarization features improved the efficiency of documenting patient explanations by 33% [04:07].
- Kyushu University Hospital: Summarizing and standardizing referral letters with Ubie’s generative AI led to a 54% increase in efficiency for doctors writing admission summaries [04:16].
- Conclusion [04:46]: Ubie acts as a catalyst for change in healthcare by empowering healthcare professionals and ultimately improving patient care through generative AI.