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Indiana University Projects to Support Precision Medicine for Alzheimer’s

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Researchers at Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine received a 5-year, $41 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to fund a study investigating the pathology of...

Cedars-Sinai AI Tool Accurately Assesses, Diagnoses Cardiac Function

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Researchers from Cedars-Sinai have shown that an artificial intelligence (AI) tool’s performance was superior to that of sonographers when assessing and diagnosing cardiac function, according to...

Artificial Intelligence Shows Potential for Diagnosing Pancreatic Cancer

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Published in JMIR, new research found that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose, predict risks of, differentiate, and segment pancreatic cancer led to high levels of accuracy,...

ML Helps Stratify Adverse Outcome Risk in Older Cancer Patients

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A study published last month in JAMA Network Open described a new machine learning (ML) tool that may assist clinicians in identifying older adults with advanced cancer who are at higher risk of...

Coalition for Health AI Releases Blueprint for Trustworthy AI in Healthcare

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The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) released its ‘Blueprint for Trustworthy AI Implementation Guidance and Assurance for Healthcare’ this week, which outlines recommendations to increase...

FDA Releases AI/ML-Enabled Medical Device Modification Guidance

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new draft guidance last week proposing an approach to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-enabled devices can be safely...

NIH Grant Aims to Enhance Artificial Intelligence Use in Healthcare

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After receiving $5.9 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), two researchers from the University of Virginia (UVA) aim to determine how artificial intelligence (AI) can support...

Wearables, ML Predict ADHD, Sleep Problems in Children

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A study published last month in JAMA Network Open describes how researchers combined data from wearable devices and machine-learning (ML) methodologies to help predict attention-deficit/hyperactivity...

Machine-Learning Model Estimates US Firearm Homicides in Near Real Time

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Researchers have developed a machine-learning (ML) model designed to use secondary data sources to accurately estimate the near real-time burden of weekly and annual firearm homicides in the US,...

Mount Sinai Opens Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine

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The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine (CEPM) hosted its grand opening last week, solidifying a partnership...

ML Model Uses Time, Location Data to Predict COVID-19 Transmission

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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a machine learning (ML) tool designed to predict COVID-19 transmission using location and time data, according to a study published this...

NC Health System Deploys AI to Predict, Diagnose Lung Cancer

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North Carolina-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist has implemented artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics tools to help clinicians predict and diagnose lung cancer to improve early...

AI Shows Potential for Automating Hip Fractures Diagnosis

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A recent study published in JAMA Network Open found that machine-learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms could use radiographs to diagnose hip fractures with comparable accuracy to...

Artificial Intelligence Aids Psoriasis Severity Assessment

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Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool for the assessment of psoriasis severity in an effort to facilitate long-term chronic disease self-management for patients,...

Data-Sharing Collaboration Aims to Advance Cancer Prevention

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The University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center and the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio launched a partnership with healthcare data privacy startup TripleBlind to study the impact of...

AI System Detects Genetic Mutations in Cancerous Brain Tumors

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New research published in Nature Medicine showed that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based diagnostic screening system known as DeepGlioma can use rapid imaging to detect genetic mutations in...

SDOH Associated with Increased Risk of Suicide Among US Veterans

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In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers found that nine social determinants of health (SDOH) extracted from structured and unstructured EHR data using natural language processing...

AI Prediction Tool Identifies Chemotherapy Drug Toxicity Risk

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Researchers from the University of Florida have created a predictive analytics tool capable of identifying acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients’ risk for complications from chemotherapy...

Apple Watch, ML Can Predict Pain in Sickle Cell Disease Patients

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In a paper published earlier this month in JMIR Formative Research, researchers explored the feasibility of using the Apple Watch to predict pain scores in hospitalized sickle cell disease patients and...

Illinois Initiative to Advance Healthcare Delivery, Research

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Illinois State University and OSF HealthCare announced a partnership aimed at driving healthcare-based advances in research, innovation, and economic development through projects in clinical and...