artificial intelligence AI in healthcare

Given the rapid proliferation of AI-equipped medical devices across U.S. healthcare, unintended effects should surprise no one. 

Artificial intelligence AI in healthcare

FDA commissioner Robert Califf recently suggested the agency may need to double its workforce. And that’s just to oversee AI. 

FDA Digital Health Advisory Committee

The FDA’s fledgling Digital Health Advisory Committee (DHAC) only held its first meeting last week, but it has already committed its thinking to writing. 

artificial intelligence AI in healthcare

An influential industry group, AdvaMed, really likes President-Elect Trump’s choice of Dr. Oz for CMS administrator. 

patient engagement satisfaction

It’s been years since AI proponents started promising big returns on healthcare providers’ investments in the technology. The results have yet to catch up with the pitches. What’s the holdup? 

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Medtronic has launched new research into AI's potential to identify patients with severe aortic stenosis and other worrying symptoms. The company hopes to overcome longstanding health disparities and reach individuals who may otherwise go untreated.

artificial intelligence AI in healthcare

Black-box outputs aren’t just a problem with AI. They’re also a problem with physicians. 

artificial intelligence AI life sciences biopharma

The pace of AI adoption is quickening in the sector, which includes biopharmaceuticals, digital health, clinical diagnostics and medical devices.

artificial intelligence AI in healthcare

Black-box outputs aren’t just a problem with AI. They’re also a problem with physicians. 

artificial intelligence AI life sciences biopharma

The pace of AI adoption is quickening in the sector, which includes biopharmaceuticals, digital health, clinical diagnostics and medical devices.

artificial intelligence AI in healthcare

Working with Medicare Advantage insurance plans is like playing poker in the Wild West. And it’s gotten a lot harder to win since the cowboys started using AI. 

AI artificial intelligence in healthcare

If you work with healthcare AI, you owe it to patients, families and communities to keep certain principles top of mind in everything you do. 

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Medtronic has launched new research into AI's potential to identify patients with severe aortic stenosis and other worrying symptoms. The company hopes to overcome longstanding health disparities and reach individuals who may otherwise go untreated.

The new technology, still under development, could help physicians screen patients for diabetes and hypertension with high-speed video recordings. 

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer.