Understood as a virtual army in the war against COVID-19, AI has vast stockpiles of potential weaponry with which to wage many a battle. That’s the good news.

Despite the inroads AI has made into many medical specialties, the technology has failed to find a foothold in primary care. Why is that?

AI, blockchain and the internet of things are among the digital tributaries poised to feed the flow of the field’s collective input.

A free web tool known as “Chester the AI Radiology Assistant” can assess a person’s chest X-rays online within seconds, ensuring patients’ private medical data remains secure while predicting their likelihood of having 14 diseases.

Clinicians equipped with machine learning can, in theory, apply what works for one patient to the care of another—and another, and another—and so on.

COVID-19 isn’t only keeping patients home when they should be seeing their doctors. It’s also keeping clinical investigators from moving ahead with their research.

The lab’s leaders are pledging to support innovators in various industries—including healthcare—who will have a hand in the rise of 5G technology.

U.S. healthcare leadership missed opportunities for optimally promoting public health fairly early on in the present pandemic.