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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...

Enterprise Imaging, Informatics Strategy Needed for Digital Transformation

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A recent white paper published by Frost & Sullivan and Canon Medical Informatics indicates that scalable, enterprise-level solutions and strategies for imaging and informatics are needed to drive...

Cleveland Clinic to Leverage Digital Twins for Health Disparity Research

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded researchers from Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth a $3.14 million grant to use digital twins to better understand and address health...

Partnership Aims to Improve Early Cognitive Decline Detection with NLP

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Brigham and Women's Hospital has partnered with artificial intelligence (AI) software company Melax Tech to build and validate a clinical decision support system (CDS) for early cognitive decline...

Cancer Symptom Algorithm Assists Doctors in Foreseeing ED Visits

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A study published in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (JNCCN) described how a cancer symptom algorithm provided insight into which patients may be at high risk for unplanned...

Survey Finds Most Healthcare Orgs Struggle to Collect, Use SDOH Data

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A white paper published last week by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) shows that a majority of surveyed healthcare organizations are collecting social determinants of...

ML Model Predicts Prematurity Complications in Newborns Using EMR Data

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In a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine, researchers from the Stanford School of Medicine revealed that a machine-learning (ML) algorithm could predict prematurity...

Johns Hopkins Receives $20M for AI in Aging Research

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The Johns Hopkins Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Aging Research (JH AITC) announced that 14 pilot projects were awarded funding through a $20 million grant from the National...

University of Utah AI, Machine Learning Projects Receive Research Funding

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Seven research projects from the University of Utah received grants from One Utah Data Science Hub to advance efforts surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in...

Researchers to Propose Framework to Address Federated Learning Challenges

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A research team from the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering is proposing a novel architecture to address challenges that frequently arise when federated learning (FL)...

Johns Hopkins AI Collab to Boost Patient Enrollment in Brain Injury Trial

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The BIOS Clinical Trials Coordinating Center (BIOS CTTC) at Johns Hopkins University is partnering with intelligent care coordination software company Viz.ai to boost patient enrollment for the...

Federal AI Challenge Aims to Improve Patient Health Outcomes

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Launched by the US General Services Administration (GSA), an artificial intelligence (AI) challenge aims to improve mental health, addiction care, health equity, healthcare supply chain and safety, and...

ChatGPT Passes US Medical Licensing Exam Without Clinician Input

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Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and AnsibleHealth, a technology-enabled medical practice providing care to medically complex chronic respiratory disease patients, found in a...

Researchers Identify Social Predictors of Premature Death Risk for Seniors

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Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of California, San Francisco have identified eight social characteristics that can help to predict an older adult’s risk of...

Four-Year Data Generation Project Aims to Use AI for Critical Care

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After receiving a large grant from the National Institutes of Health's Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (AI), also known as Bridge2AI, researchers from the University of Florida (UF) aim to test...

WHO: AI Models in Mental Health Services, Research Require Evaluation

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Although there are potential benefits associated with using artificial intelligence (AI) to treat mental health conditions, many models require a review for bias, inaccuracies, over-optimism, and more,...

Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Predict Suicide Risk

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Researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and Harvard Medical School-affiliated McLean Hospital in Belmont conducted a study assessing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to predict...

Machine-Learning Approach Aims to Optimize Rare Disease Diagnosis

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A recent study from Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI) described the creation of a machine-learning framework, known as POPDx, that aims to enhance the rare...

KLAS: ClosedLoop Wins Top Spot in Healthcare AI Category

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According to the 2023 KLAS software and services report, healthcare IT provider ClosedLoop gained recognition for being the best in the Healthcare Artificial Intelligence: Data Science Solutions...

Machine-Learning Intervention Leads to Safer Cardiac Catheterization

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As reported in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, a randomized trial conducted by Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, and the...