Health IT Analytics and Population Health News

Generative AI may enhance healthcare-associated infection surveillance

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Researchers from Saint Louis University and the University of Louisville School of Medicine have found that generative artificial intelligence (AI) could improve healthcare-associated infection (HAI)...

Generative AI may bolster digital healthcare software development

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A research team from NYU Langone Health demonstrated that the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) could accelerate the development of digital health software, according to a study published...

Predictive tool use has little effect on knee surgery decision-making

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Researchers demonstrated that the use of a tool to predict total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in patients with knee osteoarthritis had little impact on patient-reported willingness to undergo the procedure,...

Deep learning tool predicts brain metastasis in lung cancer patients

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A research team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has developed a deep learning (DL)-based approach to help predict which patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are...

Mayo Clinic develops novel AI class to advance cancer research, care

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Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new class of artificial intelligence (AI) – known as hypothesis-driven AI – to advance oncology research, according to a study published recently in...

Machine learning enables prediction of pediatric urinary condition

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Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital have developed a machine learning model to predict risk of dilating vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in infants with hydronephrosis – a condition in...

Mount Sinai to develop sleep apnea outcome risk prediction models

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Researchers from Mount Sinai have been awarded a four-year, $3 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop artificial...

Deep learning tool targets ‘black box’ AI problem in medical imaging

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A research team from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology has developed a deep learning-based medical imaging approach designed to...

Artificial Intelligence Method Enables Data Mining from Pathology Reports

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Cedars-Sinai researchers successfully utilized artificial intelligence (AI) to make pathology reports machine-readable, which could improve cancer patient recruitment in clinical trials. The research...

Top 10 Challenges of Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

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Big data analytics is a major undertaking for the healthcare industry.  Providers who have barely come to grips with putting data into their electronic health records (EHRs) are now tasked with...

Machine Learning Predicts Cancer Risk in Liver Disease Patients

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A research team from UC Davis Health developed a machine learning (ML) tool to identify which patients are at increased risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a common type of liver...

AI Smartphone Tool Accurately Diagnoses Pediatric Ear Infections

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Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and UPMC have developed a smartphone application that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose ear infections, specifically acute otitis...

Epic Risk Model Moderately Successful at Predicting Acute Kidney Injury

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Researchers from Mass General Brigham Digital demonstrated that the commercially available, machine learning-based Epic Risk of hospital-acquired acute kidney injury (HA-AKI) model is moderately...

AHA Issues Statement on the Use of AI in Cardiovascular Care

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The American Heart Association (AHA) released a scientific statement in Circulation this week detailing the current state of artificial intelligence (AI) use in the diagnosis and treatment of...

Machine Learning Models Predict Mortality Among Dementia Patients

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Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed machine learning (ML) models to identify mortality predictors in dementia patients, according to a study published this week in...

4 Emerging Strategies to Advance Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

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While the potential for big data analytics in healthcare has been a hot topic in recent years, the possible risks of using these tools have received just as much attention. Big data analytics...

AMA Report Outlines Considerations for AI Integration in Healthcare

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A report published this week by the American Medical Association (AMA) and Manatt Health outlines the transformational potential and associated risks of augmented intelligence, also known as artificial...

NLP Framework Could Improve Medical Summarization Tools

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Researchers from Pennsylvania State University (PSU) have developed a natural language processing (NLP) framework to improve the efficiency and reliability of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven...

Epic Sepsis Model Predictions May Have Limited Clinical Utility

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Researchers from the University of Michigan have demonstrated that the Epic Sepsis Model’s risk stratification accuracy was significantly impacted by whether its predictions were restricted to...

GPT-4 Matches Ophthalmologists in Glaucoma, Retina Management

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Researchers from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) demonstrated that OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Training–Model 4 (GPT-4) can match, or in some cases outperform,...