{"id":944538,"date":"2026-10-29T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944538\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:18:12","slug":"heidi-launches-ai-agents-to-take-on-clinical-admin-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944538\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidi launches AI \u2018agents\u2019 to take on clinical admin tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian AI healthcare company Heidi has launched AI \u2018agents\u2019 that it says can handle clinical administrative tasks, including preparing referrals and identifying patients due for bloods tests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company announced the new features under the name Heidi II last month \u2014 one week after it reached unicorn status with a $1.26 billion valuation, following a successful funding round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the update, doctors can ask the AI tool to complete certain tasks and it will create an agent that plans and executes the work, before returning it for approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heidi co-founder and CEO Dr Tom Kelly stressed that anything impacting patient care would have this approval step, as well as any action involving writing or deleting clinical information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian AI healthcare company Heidi has launched AI \u2018agents\u2019 that it says can handle clinical administrative tasks, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-944538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}