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. 

AI’s ‘radical potential’ to personalize medicine using population data

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.

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Healthcare AI players advised to see explainability as ‘tailored interpretability’

When applying AI to help answer clinical questions, developers, researchers and clinicians should all remain mindful of the difference between interpretability and explainability.

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Students design new face mask that monitors vital signs

A group of students at Cornell University has developed a new face mask design that monitors the wearer’s vital signs.

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University announces healthcare AI ‘cluster hires’

“Artificial intelligence in precision medical imaging and diagnostics” is among several areas of concentration for which the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be making cluster hires over a period of at least two years.

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Babylon launches AI-powered healthcare app to help New Yorkers

Babylon is partnering with Mount Sinai Health Partners to bring its AI-powered digital healthcare solution to New York. 

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Mayo Clinic lines up AI innovation partner to help fight COVID-19

A supplier of remote patient monitoring technology is working with the Mayo Clinic to speed up diagnosis of COVID-19 and predict its course in stricken patients using AI.

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Virtual training, simulated care exercises temporarily free for clinical learners

The educational technology company Ascend Learning is offering clinical simulations and virtual training modules free of charge through May 15.

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UPS to deliver CVS prescriptions by drone during pandemic, maybe longer

Residents of Florida’s largest retirement community are soon to receive their meds by unmanned aerial vehicles.

Around the web

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.

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 humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.