Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
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Kidney stones relatively easy marks for AI-guided shockwaves

AI-aimed blasting of kidney stones from outside the body hit intended targets at a 75% clip in a proof-of-concept study, pulverizing conventional lithotripsy, which missed the mark almost half the time.

August 2, 2021
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COVID outcomes predictor suffers only slight sophomore slump

The model’s consistent overall accuracy demonstrates the reusability of existing COVID algorithms with recalibrations rather than fallbacks to square one, AI developers suggest.

July 30, 2021
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Bias-resistant AI advances personalized medicine in surgery

Researchers in Denmark and the U.S. have used deep neural networks to develop complementing models for predicting complications likely to arise in patients who’ve had surgeries of all kinds. 

July 28, 2021
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AI separates EHR wheat from weeds so clinicians can get on with patient care

When assisted by an AI tool designed to organize and display digitized patient referral records, gastroenterologists cut their time to answer relevant clinical questions by 2.3 minutes.

July 28, 2021
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Scholarly futurists project healthcare AI’s trajectory across 3 time windows

Beginning around 2031, autonomous virtual assistants will deliver precision preventive medicine while networked provider orgs offer closely connected care via single, shared digital infrastructures.

July 26, 2021
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AI biopsy dilemma: Wolf or husky, equity or bias?

Early on in the development of digital image recognition, the technology showed a penchant for taking logical but potentially problematic shortcuts: It would look to image artifacts and incidental “asides” such as background features to distinguish between two visually similar subjects.

July 22, 2021
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AI casts wide net to predict functional decline in the elderly

Psychology researchers have used machine learning to wring useful two-year dementia trajectory predictions from more than 500 potentially contributing risk factors.

July 21, 2021
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Colonoscopy AI passed meaningful milestones but has miles to go before it sweeps

Before colonoscopy AI can progress from lab to clinic on a broad scale—and win regulatory approvals along the way—it has to show its diagnostic mettle in numerous large clinical trials conducted at multiple facilities.

July 20, 2021

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.

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