Health IT Analytics and Population Health News

Researchers Develop Health Equity Data Dashboard for Medicare Plans

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Research recently published in The American Journal of Managed Care describes the design and evaluation of a dashboard that presents health equity performance data to Medicare Advantage (MA)...

AI for Psychiatric Diagnosis Presents Bias, Clinical Applicability Issues

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A systematic review published last week in JAMA Network Open evaluating potential risks of translating neuroimaging-based artificial intelligence (AI) models into direct clinical applications, such as...

AI Model Enables Alzheimer’s Disease Detection from Brain MRIs

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Published in PLOS ONE, a recent study described how a team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) developed and validated an artificial intelligence (AI) model, specifically a...

AI Could Safely Automate Some X-ray Interpretation

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In a study published this week in Radiology, researchers sought to investigate the clinical impact of autonomous radiograph reporting using a commercially available artificial intelligence (AI) tool...

AI Shows Promise in Improving Orthopedic Surgery Documentation

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Research presented at the 2023 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting evaluated multiple clinical documentation modalities to determine the overall quality and how long each...

New Artificial Intelligence-Based App Detects Mpox Rashes

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Researchers from Stanford University and other institutions have created an artificial intelligence (AI)-based app, called PoxApp, that can capture photos of skin lesions and provide insight as to...

AI Model Provides Insights into Long-Term Traumatic Brain Injury Risk

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Stanford University researchers are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to help identify which computational models perform best at modeling mechanical stress on the brain, which may help drive...

AI Offers Personalized Care Recommendations to Curb Heart Disease Risk

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Researchers have validated a causal artificial intelligence model designed to identify a patient’s inherited risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and provide personalized recommendations for...

Predictive Analytics Deployment to Forecast Infectious Disease, Care Needs

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Pennsylvania-based Highmark Health will deploy an artificial intelligence (AI)-based early warning system from insights solutions company Kinsa to help predict healthcare utilization, staffing needs,...

KS Health System Unveils Generative AI Partnership

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The University of Kansas Health System announced a partnership with health technology company Abridge to deploy generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology across over 140 provider...

University of Houston AI Project Aims to Improve Lung Cancer Diagnostics

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Researchers at the University of Houston have received a $933,812 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop a computational framework to support collaboration between radiology teams...

AI Tools Can Support Early Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis

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Recent research from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, described how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could be used to examine genes within DNA, information that can...

Hospital Initiative to Combat Chronic Kidney Disease Disparities

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Phoenix, Arizona-based Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center launched a new initiative this week to address the use of race-based algorithms in the early diagnosis of chronic...

Majority of Americans Would Not Rely on AI-Based Healthcare

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A recent survey from Pew Research Center found that although there are certain areas where patients see the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) use in healthcare, the majority are skeptical due to...

NJ Health System Leverages AI, Robotics for Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis

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New Jersey-based AtlantiCare is deploying pre-operative artificial intelligence (AI) assessment tools and robotic bronchoscopy techniques to support early lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. The...

AI Partnership to Advance Brain Tumor Research, Treatment

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Hackensack Meridian Health and medical technology company Neosoma, Inc. launched a partnership to use artificial intelligence (AI) to advance brain cancer research and treatment. According to the...

AI Tools Predict Alzheimer’s Up to 5 Years Before Diagnosis

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A study published last week in Alzheimer's & Dementia details how researchers from the University of Florida (UF) Health and UF College of Medicine developed artificial intelligence (AI) tools...

AI, Remote Data Capture Partnership to Advance Type 2 Diabetes Research

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UW Medicine and Delve Health have announced a collaboration aimed at using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and remote data capture to bolster endemic type 2 diabetes research. The...

Johns Hopkins Machine-Learning Model Predicts COVID-19 Resistance

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A research team from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins University has developed a machine-learning (ML) tool capable of predicting who has the highest probability of being naturally resistant to...

GA Health System to Deploy AI-Based Alzheimer’s Detection Tool

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With the goal of improving the detection and treatment of dementia-related diseases, the Goizueta Institute at Emory Brain Health and Emory Healthcare began a collaboration with Linus Health to...