Top 10 AI Prompts and Use Cases and in the Healthcare Industry in Philadelphia
Last Updated: August 24th 2025

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Philadelphia health systems use AI prompts for triage, real‑time visit transcription, radiology augmentation, genomics, and prior‑auth automation. Local pilots report ~2.8 clinician hours saved/day, >15,000 care gaps flagged in 4 months (100k population), and ~30% fraudulent‑claim reduction in 6 months.
Philadelphia's health systems are already at the forefront of a quiet revolution: AI prompts and smart assistants are being used to speed triage, generate clinical notes, and even surface promising drug leads - tools that demand fresh prompt-writing skills as much as cautious oversight.
Local reporting shows Clarivate's Philly team using AI to predict which research could turn into new therapies (Clarivate's AI drug development efforts in Philadelphia), while Penn Medicine pilots “ambient listening” smartphones that transcribe visits in real time to reduce after-hours chartwork (Penn Medicine ambient listening pilot for clinical documentation).
Academic voices stress the promise - and the paradox: AI can find “needle-in-a-haystack” diagnostic clues and speed population-health outreach, yet documentation tools still show only moderate accuracy in trials (PCOM's exploration of AI in medicine: promise and paradox).
For Philadelphia clinicians and administrators, learning practical prompt techniques - as taught in Nucamp's 15‑week AI Essentials for Work course - can turn these systems from risky curiosities into reliable workflow partners (Nucamp AI Essentials for Work: 15-week course registration).
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AI Essentials for Work | 15 Weeks | $3,582 | Register for Nucamp AI Essentials for Work (15 Weeks) |
“AI holds immense promise in transforming health care, but its potential will only be fully realized if its challenges are effectively managed.”
Table of Contents
- Methodology: How We Selected the Top 10 Prompts and Use Cases
- Diagnostic Augmentation - AI-Rad Companion
- Real-time Triage and Prioritization - Enlitic
- Clinical Decision Support & Precision Medicine - SOPHiA GENETICS
- Patient-facing Conversational AI - Sully.ai
- Population Health & Care-gap Closure - OneDash
- Administrative Automation & Prior Auths - Clair (CaryHealth)
- Medication Safety & Prescription Auditing - CaryHealth Clair Pharmacy
- Drug Discovery & R&D Acceleration - Insilico Medicine
- Robotic and Assistive Devices - LUCAS 3
- Fraud Detection & Compliance Monitoring - Markovate
- Conclusion: Best Practices, Risks, and Next Steps for Philadelphia Health Systems
- Frequently Asked Questions
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Methodology: How We Selected the Top 10 Prompts and Use Cases
(Up)To pick the top 10 AI prompts and use cases for Philadelphia's health systems, selection followed a practical, safety-first rubric grounded in recent best practices: prioritize highly specific, well‑structured prompts that name the task, define the response format, and include role and constraint parameters (as recommended in HealthTech Magazine's prompt‑engineering guide Prompt engineering best practices for healthcare - HealthTech Magazine), test prompts iteratively with clinician feedback, and validate feasibility before deployment using a lightweight feasibility lens.
Emphasis was placed on clinical applicability (decision support, triage, documentation), auditability (traceable instructions and output formats from Google's Vertex AI prompt design overview Vertex AI prompt design strategies - Google Cloud), and risk controls (context limits, guardrails, and clear examples).
Each candidate prompt was evaluated for how easily it could be role‑assigned, parameterized, and refined in a real workflow - because in practice a prompt often needs the same iterative tuning as a new diagnostic device to become reliably useful at the bedside.
Selection Criterion | Why It Mattered |
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Specificity & Format | Reduces irrelevant or unsafe outputs by telling the model the desired output type |
Context & Role | Improves relevance when prompts include patient context and an assigned persona |
Iterative Testing | Clinical feedback loop catches edge cases before deployment |
Feasibility & Auditability | Ensures practical integration and traceable decisions |
“The more specific we can be, the less we leave the LLM to infer what to do in a way that might be surprising for the end user.”
Diagnostic Augmentation - AI-Rad Companion
(Up)AI‑Rad Companion brings deep‑learning post‑processing into routine radiology so imaging teams in Pennsylvania can shave hours off repetitive measurements and surface subtle findings faster: Siemens' family of cloud‑based tools automatically highlights abnormalities, segments anatomies, and computes volumes for lung nodules, coronary calcium, aortic diameters and even color‑coded vertebral height abnormalities that jump off the screen for rapid review (AI‑Rad Companion - Siemens Healthineers automated radiology post-processing).
The Chest X‑ray extension annotates suspected pneumothorax, consolidation, pleural effusion and more, returning image overlays and DICOM SR/GSPS outputs with AI confidence scores to PACS in minutes (AI‑Rad Companion Chest X‑ray - Health AI Register chest X‑ray analysis).
Designed to integrate via the Teamplay platform and push structured results into reporting workflows, AI‑Rad can free technologists and radiologists for higher‑value tasks - while regulators and vendor notes remind users that some modules may have country‑specific licensing or research‑only statuses.
As Philadelphia imaging centers explore AI‑assisted radiology breakthroughs, this kind of diagnostic augmentation can translate into faster triage, more consistent longitudinal measurements, and clearer handoffs to referring clinicians (AI‑assisted radiology breakthroughs in Philadelphia - complete guide to using AI in healthcare in Philadelphia).
Capability | What it delivers |
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Automated segmentation & quantification | Lung nodule volumes, tumor burden, aortic diameters, brain volumes |
Chest X‑ray analysis | Annotated findings, confidence scores, DICOM SR/GSPS outputs (processing ~1–10 min) |
Workflow integration | Teamplay platform and PACS export for structured reporting |
Regulatory note | Some extensions limited by country licensing and device approvals |
Real-time Triage and Prioritization - Enlitic
(Up)For Philadelphia health systems seeking faster, safer triage at the point of imaging, Enlitic's suite refocuses radiology on priority cases by standardizing labels, automating study routing, and surfacing only the most relevant worklist items for on‑call readers; the company's ENDEX/ENCOG tools correct mistyped studies (the notorious “CT BRIAN” example) and append critical routing metadata so an ER case spotted at 4:30 a.m.
lands with the right credentialed radiologist instead of getting lost in a messy worklist (Enlitic radiology AI solutions for radiologists).
Hospital IT teams in Pennsylvania can fold this into PACS and enterprise imaging projects to reclaim technologist time, reduce manual hanging‑protocol fixes, and accelerate time‑to‑diagnosis by making triage decisions data‑driven rather than happenstance (ENDEX radiology workflow solutions).
As systems migrate to cloud PACS and enterprise imaging, Enlitic's Curie platform promises to turn previously unusable archives into a consistently labeled, actionable stream that supports near‑real‑time prioritization and downstream AI orchestration (Enlitic Curie AI data governance release).
“Enlitic Curie 1.3 is the evolution of our product platform towards our ultimate goal of developing a real-world database. The benefits customers realize on this journey give them an return on investment now, and a vision of the future. They don't need to wait for the entire portfolio to be in place before they start to realize the benefits of a sound data governance plan and data protection.”
Clinical Decision Support & Precision Medicine - SOPHiA GENETICS
(Up)For Pennsylvania health systems aiming to bring precision medicine into routine care, SOPHiA GENETICS' SOPHiA DDM™ offers a cloud‑native, IVDR‑certified platform that harmonizes genomics, imaging and clinical data so clinicians can turn complex inputs into actionable, auditable insights; built‑in features like CUMIN™ molecular barcoding enable sensitive MRD detection at very low allele fractions (<0.01% VAF), while SOPHiA CarePath® supports multimodal visualization and cohorting to speed hypothesis testing and treatment decisions - backed by a global footprint that has analyzed over two million genomic profiles, a kind of library of cancer fingerprints that helps surface similar cases and outcomes quickly (SOPHiA DDM platform overview).
The platform emphasizes in‑house data control, HIPAA/GDPR compliance, and scalable GPU processing so Philadelphia hospitals can shorten turnaround times, standardize variant interpretation, and pair radiomic signals with genomic calls for clearer clinical decision support; explore multimodal use cases and community‑driven analytics to accelerate trials and precision oncology workflows (SOPHiA DDM™ for Multimodal).
Capability | What it delivers |
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Genomics | Variant calling, annotation, ML‑driven pre‑classification |
Radiomics | Automated 3D segmentation and feature extraction |
Multimodal | Integrated clinico‑genomic imaging cohorts and predictive models |
CUMIN™ barcoding | Sensitive detection down to <0.01% VAF for MRD |
Compliance & Scale | HIPAA/GDPR, ISO certifications, 800+ institutions, 2M+ profiles |
“Through this collaboration, we aim to enable the widespread application of precision medicine in oncology across Africa, and thus contributing to the improvement of patient outcomes across the African continent. We believe our scientific expertise, combined with AI-enabled technologies and data-driven solutions enabled by SOPHiA GENETICS, presents a unique opportunity to fundamentally transform the journey of cancer patients through non-invasive cancer analysis, predictive genomic testing, and effective precision medicine.” Abasi Ene-Obong, PhD. Founder, Syndicate Bio
Patient-facing Conversational AI - Sully.ai
(Up)Patient-facing conversational AI from Sully.ai stitches the front door to the aftercare loop - a modular team of agents that can act as an AI receptionist, scribe, interpreter and nurse to streamline intake, scheduling, insurance checks and 24/7 symptom triage while keeping data inside the EMR and compliant with HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II controls; see Sully.ai's overview of end-to-end patient journey automation for details (Sully.ai healthcare AI agents end-to-end patient journey automation overview).
For Pennsylvania clinics and Philadelphia practices that struggle with no-shows and follow-up, Sully's conversational workflows send personalized medication reminders that “ping” patients if a dose is missed and prompt symptom logging, automate pre-visit chart review, generate real-time transcriptions during the visit, and deliver frictionless post-visit summaries to close the care loop (Sully.ai clinician support and post-visit summaries for clinicians).
The payoff is tangible in pilot results and case studies: clinicians reclaim hours per day, triage is more consistent, and patient engagement rises - a practical way to reduce front-desk bottlenecks and keep chronic-care cohorts on track with automated, multilingual outreach.
Metric | Result |
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Clinician time saved | ~2.8 hours per day |
Decrease in operations per patient | 50% |
Reported reduction in burnout | 80% |
“Sully.ai stopped me from feeling burned out, and I'm happy seeing patients again!”
Population Health & Care-gap Closure - OneDash
(Up)Population health teams in Philadelphia chasing HEDIS and STARS gains should look closely at OneDash's AI-driven clinical automation platform, which uses clinical sequencing funnels to find at-risk cohorts, escalate unresolved steps, and automate layered interventions so pharmacists and caseworkers focus only on the highest‑impact patients; see the OneDash AI‑driven clinical automation platform overview for how it identifies and closes care gaps via configurable rules and real‑time analytics (OneDash AI‑driven clinical automation platform overview).
Built for rapid, scalable deployment and bidirectional EHR connections, OneDash can launch intervention suites in weeks, run AI calling and texting to engage patients, and push actions back into the chart - practical features for Philadelphia systems that need point‑of‑care visibility and measurable ROI. The platform's results are vivid: for a 100,000‑member population it automatically flagged >15,000 care gaps in four months, achieved a >60% automated closure rate on Star medications, saved >900 pharmacist hours across two quarters, and contributed to multi‑million dollar medical cost avoidance in transition‑of‑care pilots - concrete outcomes that translate quality metrics into lower costs and fewer missed opportunities for patients.
Metric | Result |
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Overall adherence | 75% |
Care gaps identified (population 100,000) | >15,000 in 4 months |
Automated Star medication closure | >60% success rate |
Pharmacist time saved | >900 hours over two quarters |
Cost avoidance | >$5M medical cost avoidance (6‑month TOC program) |
Administrative Automation & Prior Auths - Clair (CaryHealth)
(Up)Prior‑authorization paperwork is one of the clearest places AI can deliver immediate ROI for Philadelphia health systems: CaryHealth's Clair coPilot combines a clinically curated knowledge base - trained on hundreds of millions of studies and FDA inserts - with semantic search to surface evidence and speed decision prep, while CaryHealth's Rx Fulfillment & Hub and CaryConnect tools tie benefits investigation, real‑time status updates and PA support into a single workflow so prescriptions and prescribed digital therapeutics clear payer gates faster (CaryHealth launches Clair clinical AI CoPilot announcement; CaryHealth Rx Fulfillment & Hub prior authorization support services).
Practical automation - NLP extraction of chart data, payer‑rule matching, and automated submission - reduces back‑and‑forth and improves time‑to‑fill, which matters in Pennsylvania where delayed approvals can cascade into missed appointments and worse outcomes; the CaryHealth playbook bundles these automation layers with APIs and EHR integrations so administrative teams can reclaim hours and clinicians can keep care moving.
Metric | Result |
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New Fill Rate | 90% |
Adherence Rate on New Starts | 92% |
Same‑day ship after PA approval | 16% |
% shipped within a week | 85% |
Year‑over‑year recovery rate | 99% |
“At CaryHealth, we are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of innovation to empower healthcare organizations with transformative AI solutions.” - Areo Nazari, CEO
Medication Safety & Prescription Auditing - CaryHealth Clair Pharmacy
(Up)Medication‑safety teams in Philadelphia can treat CaryHealth's Clair Pharmacy playbook as a practical extension of well‑established safety science: automated prescription auditing and semantic checks should map to the “five rights” and reconciliation workflows that pharmacies and verification nurses already use, turning manual, error‑prone steps into auditable, repeatable checks (see the pharmacist's Medication Safety Checklist for Pharmacists for practical protocols); verification‑style workflows - confirming doses, routes, and interactions - mirror the work verification nurses do to prevent ADEs and near‑misses (The impact of verification nurses on medication safety), and pairing those human checks with CPOE, barcode eMAR and decision‑support mirrors the safe administration steps described in clinical guides (Safe Medication Administration clinical guide).
The result for Pennsylvania clinics and hospitals can feel like a dependable second pair of eyes - an auditable safety net that flags interactions, enforces reconciliation at transitions of care, and routes questionable orders for human review so clinicians aren't left to spot every near miss on a busy shift.
“While pharmacists' contribution to medication safety has been historically focused on dispensing, pharmacists' roles have expanded as medication therapy has increased in complexity, and many patients - even those with serious illness - can now receive care in the home and in community settings.” - Patient Safety Network
Drug Discovery & R&D Acceleration - Insilico Medicine
(Up)Insilico Medicine's Pharma.AI suite - pairing PandaOmics target ID with the Chemistry42 generative‑chemistry engine - shows how generative AI can compress what used to take years into months: published work recounts a first “hit” found in 30 days using AlphaFold structures, and Insilico has taken candidates from target to preclinical nomination in roughly 18 months, while one program, Rentosertib, was recently named by USAN as the first drug whose target and compound were both discovered with generative AI (Insilico Medicine Pharma.AI & Chemistry42 platform; Rentosertib - first AI‑designed drug named by USAN).
Operational wins matter to makers and funders in Pennsylvania: an AWS case study reports >16x faster model iteration and an 83% reduction in deployment time after migrating to SageMaker, a practical boost for Philly‑area translational projects aiming to shorten lead discovery, lower costs, and accelerate IND‑ready candidates without losing scientific rigor; imagine a local lab turning a validated target idea into a testable molecule in a single academic year, not several.
Metric | Value / Example |
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Time to first hit (example) | ~30 days (CDK20 case) |
Target → preclinical candidate | ~18 months |
Model iteration acceleration (AWS) | >16× faster |
Deployment time reduction (AWS) | 83% |
Notable program | Rentosertib (AI‑discovered, progressed to Phase IIa) |
“Rentosertib is the first drug whose target and design were discovered by modern generative AI and now it has achieved an official name on the path to patients.” - Alex Zhavoronkov, Founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine
Robotic and Assistive Devices - LUCAS 3
(Up)When every second counts in a Philly emergency, the LUCAS 3 mechanical CPR system offers a dependable, hands‑free way to keep high‑quality compressions going from the street to the cath lab: it delivers guideline‑consistent compressions at a depth of 5.3 cm (2.1 in) and about 102 compressions per minute, boosts cerebral blood flow by roughly 60% compared with manual CPR, and lets teams focus on advanced care such as ECMO or PCI while reducing caregiver strain and x‑ray exposure during transport (Stryker LUCAS 3 chest compression system product page).
Lightweight and portable with a typical 45‑minute battery life and configurability for rate, depth, and alerts, LUCAS 3 has more than 50,000 devices in the global market and >99% operational reliability - features that make it practical for Philadelphia EMS, hospital code teams, and cath lab workflows where maintaining continuous compressions (median transition interruption ~7 seconds) can be the difference between a good neurological outcome and a poor one (Physio‑Control LUCAS v3.1 product listing and specifications).
Specification | Value |
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Compression depth | 5.3 cm (2.1 in) |
Compression rate | 102 ± 2 per minute |
Device weight | 17.7 lb (with battery) |
Battery life | ~45 minutes (typical) |
Global units in market | |
Operational reliability | >99% |
Median transition interruption | ~7 seconds |
Fraud Detection & Compliance Monitoring - Markovate
(Up)Fraud detection and compliance monitoring are becoming practical levers for Pennsylvania health systems that need to protect margins and patient trust: Markovate's AI-driven fraud detection & security solutions use anomaly detection and predictive ML to flag suspicious claims in near‑real time, and a published example with a national insurer showed a 30% reduction in fraudulent claims in six months, a 25% improvement in data security, and 40% faster claims processing (Markovate fraud detection & security solutions); pairing those capabilities with proven anomaly techniques - like the statistical and ML approaches described in Mindbridge's guide to anomaly detection - helps teams turn noisy billing feeds into prioritized investigations (Anomaly detection techniques for uncovering risks).
For Philadelphia hospitals and payers, that means catching billed irregularities before payments clear - flagging thousands of anomalous lines instead of leaving auditors to trawl claims manually - and builds an auditable, HIPAA‑aware workflow that scales as volumes grow (AI‑powered fraud detection in Philadelphia).
Metric | Result |
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Fraudulent claims reduction | 30% (6 months) |
Data security improvement | 25% |
Faster claims processing | 40% faster |
Conclusion: Best Practices, Risks, and Next Steps for Philadelphia Health Systems
(Up)Philadelphia health systems ready to move from pilots to production must treat AI like any high‑stakes clinical tool: build a formal governance framework, staff a cross‑disciplinary AI governance committee, and pair tight policies with role‑based training, continuous auditing, and incident‑response plans so algorithms improve care without introducing new harms - advice mirrored in the AMA STEPS Forward governance toolkit and ECRI's patient‑safety warning about insufficient AI oversight (AMA STEPS Forward: governance for augmented intelligence in clinical practice; ECRI: ensuring safe AI use in healthcare - governance imperatives and recommendations).
Start small with a prioritized use case (triage, prior auth automation, or radiology augmentation), document data lineage and bias checks, run clinician‑in‑the‑loop pilots, and iterate - because, without these guardrails, a confident AI suggestion can be as risky as a misfiled chart at 4:30 a.m.
Workforce readiness matters: pragmatic, short courses on prompt writing and operational AI skills help staff apply controls safely; see Nucamp's 15‑week AI Essentials for Work for role‑tailored prompt and workflow training (Nucamp AI Essentials for Work - 15‑week practical course on AI for the workplace), a concrete next step for organizations aiming to scale responsibly while protecting patients and margins.
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AI Essentials for Work | 15 Weeks | $3,582 | Register for Nucamp AI Essentials for Work - 15 Weeks |
“As a foundational issue, trust is required for the effective application of AI technologies. In the clinical health care context, this may involve how patients perceive AI technologies.”
Frequently Asked Questions
(Up)What are the top AI use cases being adopted in Philadelphia's healthcare systems?
Philadelphia health systems are adopting AI across diagnostics (AI‑Rad Companion for automated segmentation and chest x‑ray annotation), real‑time triage and prioritization (Enlitic), precision medicine and clinical decision support (SOPHiA GENETICS), patient‑facing conversational agents (Sully.ai), population health and care‑gap closure (OneDash), administrative automation and prior authorization (Clair/CaryHealth), medication safety and prescription auditing (Clair Pharmacy), drug discovery acceleration (Insilico Medicine), robotic/assistive devices for resuscitation (LUCAS 3), and fraud detection/compliance monitoring (Markovate).
How were the top 10 prompts and use cases selected and evaluated?
Selection used a safety‑first, practical rubric emphasizing prompt specificity and output format, role and context assignment, iterative clinician testing, feasibility validation, auditability, and risk controls. Each candidate was evaluated for clinical applicability (triage, documentation, decision support), ease of role/parameterization, traceability of outputs, and readiness for workflow integration before being recommended for pilots or deployment.
What measurable benefits have pilots and deployments shown in Philadelphia or analogous settings?
Reported and vendor/case‑study metrics include clinician time savings (~2.8 hours/day with Sully.ai), reductions in operations per patient (50%), high closure rates on automated medication interventions (>60% for OneDash on Star meds), pharmacist time saved (>900 hours in two quarters), improved prior‑auth/new‑fill rates (90% new fill, 92% adherence for CaryHealth), faster imaging processing (~1–10 minutes for chest x‑ray overlays), fraud reductions (~30% in six months with Markovate), and accelerated R&D timelines (first hit in ~30 days, target→preclinical ~18 months with Insilico).
What risks and governance steps should Philadelphia health systems take before scaling AI?
Treat AI as a clinical tool: establish formal governance (cross‑disciplinary AI committee), role‑based training, continuous auditing, incident‑response plans, documented data lineage and bias checks, clinician‑in‑the‑loop pilots, and staged rollouts. Prioritize use cases with clear ROI and safety controls (triage, prior‑auth automation, radiology augmentation) and ensure HIPAA/GDPR/compliance alignment and vendor licensing/device approvals where applicable.
How can clinical staff gain the practical prompt‑writing and operational AI skills needed to implement these use cases?
Practical training should focus on writing specific, structured prompts that define task, role, constraints, and response format; iterative testing with clinician feedback; and operational integration best practices. Short, role‑tailored courses - such as Nucamp's 15‑week AI Essentials for Work - teach prompt techniques, governance concepts, and workflow embedding to help staff apply AI safely and consistently.
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