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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Physician/AI aficionado dissects Medicare’s first agreement to pay for use of AI

Early this month CMS agreed to reimburse hospitals for using the first AI software to qualify for Medicare’s NTAP mechanism. Healthcare AI watchers have been unpacking the intricacies of the development ever since.

FDA’s new digital-health ‘center of excellence’ shows the shape it will take

The FDA has an eye trained on healthcare AI as it establishes a major operation to help advance the state of the art across digital health.

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Drones deliver AEDs in times of need

In some instances, the drone helped get an AED on the scene nearly three minutes faster than normal. 

Stanford researchers: AmI offers an ‘extraordinary opportunity to illuminate the dark spaces of healthcare’

Crossing machine learning with low-cost infrared sensors, AI developers are pushing the envelope on ambient intelligence, or AmI, for use in healthcare.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink has healthcare AI on the brain

Musk has his eye on medical applications to get the fledgling company rolling—and he sees AI playing a major supporting role from its outset.

AI–spectroscopy combo rats out fentanyl and its illicit kin

Researchers have developed an AI algorithm that can identify illegally cooked-up fentanyl, teaching itself to spot dangerous new impostors as it goes.

4 ways AI may change plastic surgery

It has a ways to go in the field, but AI promises to modernize plastic surgery along both its main branches, cosmetic and reconstructive.

Photo-fed AI can tell your dietician what’s on your plate

If it pans out at real-world dinner tables, a freshly cooked-up AI system will soon be counting calories and sniffing out macronutrients just by gobbling up images of meals.

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