Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

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Student-athletes outfitted with wearables to help study COVID

A major collegiate athletic conference is teaming with a top-tier academic healthcare system and a popular fitness technology company to study the utility of wearables for preventing or monitoring infectious diseases in student-athletes.

IoT outpacing AI and other emerging technologies in infection-conscious nursing

Of five emerging technologies used by nurses to help control infectious diseases, the Internet of Things is the most promising, researchers have concluded. 

Medical AI can’t do much without info-sharing patients—and younger generations aren’t thrilled to be asked

The demand for tailored PHI consent for research is strongest among adults 49 and younger, pressing the need to speed the evolution of policies conducive to AI development.

Large survey shows radiologists need AI education to keep job concerns at bay

The less radiologists know about AI, the more likely they are to believe it may displace them from their clinical pursuits.

Pain impressively modulated by—and better understood with—immersive VR

Virtual reality can help quell perceptions of pain as well as dampening the prickling sensations that patients with nerve damage sometimes experience upon being touched.

AI may help liberate parenting from ‘technoference’

A new survey of around 300 youngish parents has found almost two-thirds worried they’re spending so much time distracted by electronic devices that their children’s development may be at risk.

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Robots almost as good as clinicians at pleasing patients in the ER

Emergency-room patients are happy to receive care from a physician interacting remotely over a tablet computer mounted on a dog-like robot.

AI identifies FDA-approved drugs warranting novel testing against Alzheimer’s

Harvard researchers have used machine learning to find molecular features in existing drugs that may be effective in warding off or treating Alzheimer’s disease.

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