How AI could be the key to beating the next COVID-19 variant
While the number of possible mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein would be overwhelming for humans to analyze, machine learning may be able to offer critical insights for next-generation vaccines...
View ArticleNew AI program aims to expand biomedical and behavioral research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) program, backed by $130 million in funding, that aims to expand the use of AI in the biomedical and research...
View ArticleVIDEO: AI can help prevent clinician burnout
Julius Bogdan, vice president and general manager of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Digital Health Advisory Team for North America, discusses how artificial...
View ArticleVIDEO: Use of AI to address health equity and health consumerization
Julius Bogdan, vice president and general manager of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Digital Health Advisory Team for North America, explains the use of artificial...
View ArticleVIDEO: Understanding biases in healthcare AI
Validation and testing of all algorithms is needed to eliminate any biases in the data used to train the AI, according to Julius Bogdan, vice president and general manager of the HIMSS Digital Health...
View ArticleThe lack of clinical trials may be holding back AI adoption in healthcare
The healthcare industry has a lot of hope for machine learning solutions across patient care. However, there are many barriers to widespread adoption keeping machine learning from being implemented...
View ArticleWalgreens changes how it rates its pharmacists
Walgreens has done away with task-based metrics for its retail pharmacy staff, a move that no longer judges pharmacists on how fast they work.
View ArticleAI drug discovery company pens $1.2B research collab with Sanofi
Insilico Medicine, a clinical stage AI-drive drug discovery company, has penned a multi-year, multi-target strategic research collaboration with Sanofi in a deal valued at $1.2 billion.
View ArticleVerily lays off 15% of workers months after raising $1B
Verily, the life sciences subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is laying off 15% of its workforce just months after raising $1 billion in a funding round.
View ArticleWalgreens may sell $2B pharmacy automation business
The move comes as Walgreens is shoring up its business amid a period of big transactions in the healthcare space.
View ArticleFDA has now cleared more than 500 healthcare AI algorithms
More than 500 clinical AI algorithms have now been cleared by the FDA, with the majority just in the past couple years.
View ArticleGE HealthCare acquires AI ultrasound company
The deal will fold Caption Health into GE HealthCare’s $3 billion ultrasound business, supporting the portfolio with AI-enabled imaging.
View ArticleNew AI healthcare challenge offers cash for better outcomes
The Applied AI Healthcare Challenge is looking for diverse and practical solutions that will help federal agencies provide high-quality care.
View ArticleResearchers building ‘commonsense AI’ from baby’s mind up
The project may inform theories of human neurodevelopment as dynamically as it advances computer and data science.
View ArticleAI in healthcare? Many patients seem unimpressed
60% of U.S. adults would be uncomfortable if their healthcare provider relied on AI for their medical care.
View ArticleEmotional rescue: AI app interprets feelings of the nonverbal
A healthcare AI startup spawned from academia has launched an app to help caregivers understand the emotional state of individuals who are minimally verbal due to such conditions as autism, brain...
View ArticleHackensack Meridian teams up with AI specialists for brain tumor care
The partnership is just the latest example of AI technologies being adopted in the healthcare space.
View ArticleLarge language AI: It’s here. It’s soon to be everywhere. Get used to it.
ChatGPT and similar technologies coming down the medical pike have far to go before they’re reliable sources of accurate and appropriate health information. That doesn’t mean they’re non-factors now.
View ArticleAcademic envelope-pushers rev up biocomputing, OI and ‘intelligence in a dish’
Does the future of digital healthcare lie with biocomputers powered by engineered cultures derived from human brain cells? If so, it’s already underway in Baltimore.
View ArticleRadiological AI revisited from the consumer’s-eye view: ‘People need to stop...
By now it’s a difficult-to-dispute likelihood: AI won’t replace doctors making diagnoses, but doctors who use AI will displace doctors who don’t use AI. The hypothesis gets a fresh airing out from the...
View ArticleUlcerative colitis AI identifies activity vs. remission, predicts future...
Researchers across the pond have developed and externally validated an AI model that can predict flareups of ulcerative colitis.
View ArticleTo juice medical AI adoption, try a little Aristotelian persuasion
Wary consumers can be convinced to allow AI into their healthcare habits by communications campaigns tuned to the ancient rhetorical categories of ethos, pathos and logos.
View ArticleGoogle ups activity in 4 reaches of healthcare AI
Along with expanding research into large-language models to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPC, the search-engine king is working on AI for improving maternal care, ultrasound access and tuberculosis screening.
View ArticleToylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles...
When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly...
View ArticleProminent tech scholar: AI ‘feels like a runaway train that we’re chasing on...
Cynthia Rudin, PhD, is a highly regarded computer scientist who’s been eyeing the advance of artificial intelligence into society with equal parts enthusiasm and concern.
View ArticleVenerable medical journal spawns AI-focused offspring
The 211-year-old New England Journal of Medicine has birthed an online-only monthly journal that will take on “some of the most pressing questions in medicine through the application of AI in the clinic.”
View ArticleQuantum healthcare computing coiled for liftoff on US soil
The first quantum computer set up to support healthcare research in the United States has been delivered.
View ArticleIntermountain Health launches new biotech company
The aim of the biotech company is to “transform healthcare by providing comprehensive information on patient predisposition to disease, disease prevention and personalized intervention and treatments."
View ArticleBig bank rolls out AI claims predictor for healthcare clients
One of the 10 largest banks in the country is marketing a new AI-based system aimed at flagging upcoming medical claims that are likely to court rejection by payers.
View ArticleNearly all health leaders are investing in software this year
A whopping 94% of health leaders in the survey said they plan to invest in software this year, partly to fend off clinician burnout and a looming recession.
View ArticleToo much too soon? Elon Musk, other tech leaders pause AI development to...
Healthcare is one of the biggest areas of opportunity for AI, with more than 500 health AI algorithms cleared by the FDA over the last several years.
View ArticleLiver specialists among first to be ably aided by ChatGPT
ChatGPT isn’t capable of unilaterally guiding care for patients with cirrhosis or the liver cancer it tends to spawn, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the large-language AI tool can competently...
View ArticleThese health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios
U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.
View ArticlePhillips partners with Amazon to host EI offering, advance AI tools
According to Philips, the partnership with Amazon Web Services broadens its capabilities in enterprise informatics and many other key areas.
View ArticleFederal Trade Commission issues warning to health companies about the misuse...
The new policy statement warns that any inaccurate or misleading claims to consumers about how their data is collected and used will be considered a violation of the FTC Act.
View ArticleClinics tap GPT-4 to ease charting burden, improve patient care
The hope is that the GPT-4-based notes assistant will ease the burden of manual charting on physicians while also offering patients more personalized visit summaries, Carbon Health announced June 5.
View ArticleAmerican Medical Association to advise on the use of AI in medicine
The goal is to inform users on how to best utilize AI tools while also practicing caution, as many are still in their early stages of deployment and can pose risks.
View ArticleGPT-4, a new upgrade from the team behind ChatGPT, can help doctors with...
The new and improved AI-based language model outperformed human clinicians in a new study published in JAMA Network Open.
View ArticleAI specialists focused on discovering new drug therapies raise $200M
“AI presents a potent opportunity to revolutionize the drug discovery process," according to the company's CEO.
View ArticleEpic and Microsoft join forces to tackle some of healthcare’s biggest AI...
The two companies continue to expand their partnership, this time looking to deploy generative AI to improve care delivery.
View ArticleChatGPT’s ‘hallucinations’ make it difficult to trust for advice on cancer care
ChatGPT often gives confusing, conflicting answers about cancer treatments, according to new research out of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
View ArticleAI takes on hospital staffing to help battle burnout
Specialists with Providence Health System developed a new artificial intelligence algorithm to help make staffing schedules more flexible and predict patient volumes.
View ArticleDeloitte survey suggests time has come for the CICO—‘chief internal controls...
Almost half of U.S. executives working in or close to the C-suite, 44.7%, see AI as the emerging technology most likely to put their internal-control systems at risk over the next 12 months.
View ArticleLeveraging machine learning to rapidly create clinical AI algorithms
Phoenix Children's Hospital uses AI to rapidly develop new algorithms to help solve clinical and automation issues specifc to the hospital in as little a few hours.
View ArticleNumber of AI products in healthcare set for fivefold expansion by 2035
A study projects AI funding will continue to increase, resulting in a massive number of new products during the next decade.
View ArticleUnitedHealth faces lawsuit over AI algorithm that allegedly denied care to...
A lawsuit in federal court claims an AI algorithm used by the insurer systematically denied elderly patients’ claims for extended care.
View ArticleGoogle Health partners with iCAD in commercial AI imaging push
The deal is the first commercial partnership for Google Health to introduce its breast imaging AI into clinical practice.
View ArticleCES speakers talk about AI in health, need for trust
Keynote speakers noted the need to move at the “speed of trust” in order to reach potential for healthcare.
View ArticleECRI: Top 10 healthcare technology hazards that are avoidable (by suppliers)...
The nonprofit patient-safety organization says the list “reflects our judgment about which risks should be given attention now to help care providers, as well as device manufacturers, prioritize their...
View ArticleScope of FDA’s power over AI an ‘unsettled’—and unsettling—question
As AI is increasingly integrated into healthcare, the sheriff is conspicuously MIA.
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