Health IT Analytics and Population Health News

AI Tool Can Identify Sepsis Within 12 Hours of Hospital Admission

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A new study published in JAMA Network Open assesses an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can predict the likelihood of patients developing sepsis and the severity of the infection as quickly as 12...

AI Collaboration Launches to Support Cystic Fibrosis, Respiratory Research

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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has announced a partnership with research intelligence company Epistemic AI and the Boomer Esiason Foundation (BEF), which will enable the Cincinnati...

Mayo Clinic, Lisa Health Leverage AI to Create Personalized Menopause App

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In collaboration with Mayo Clinic, digital health company Lisa Health launched Midday, a personalized solution that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and digital therapeutics to provide menopause...

Mayo Clinic ML Can Predict Pancreatic Cancer Earlier Than Usual Methods

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A Mayo Clinic-led study published in Gastroenterology shows that radiomics-based machine-learning (ML) models may help diagnose pancreatic cancer at an earlier, more treatable stage than standard...

Deep Learning Effective at Predicting Cerebral Palsy in Infants

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In a prognostic study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers described the development of a deep-learning (DL) model that can effectively predict cerebral palsy based on infants’ spontaneous...

ML Analysis of Handgun Purchases Can Forecast Suicide Risk

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A new study published in JAMA Network Open indicates that machine-learning (ML) models designed to analyze handgun transaction data can accurately forecast firearm suicide risk, resulting in insights...

$15M Collaboration Aims to Advance Cardiovascular Care with Analytics, AI

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NewYork-Presbyterian, with physicians from its affiliated medical schools, Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University VP&S), is...

Public, Population Health Informatics Program Nabs $2.5M to Expand Training

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The Indiana Training Program in Public and Population Health Informatics, a collaboration between Indiana University (IU) and the Regenstrief Institute, has been awarded a five-year continuation of...

Google, Northwell Health Partner to Boost Patient Care, Clinician Experience

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Google Cloud and New York-based Northwell Health announced a collaboration to accelerate the health system’s digital transformation using cloud technology and artificial intelligence (AI), with...

Cedars-Sinai Develops Predictive Models for Post-Surgery Pain Management

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A team of researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has developed artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms to predict which patients are most likely to successfully manage...

Defense Health Agency to Utilize AI, Data Analytics to Enhance PTSD Treatment

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The US Defense Health Agency (DHA) has announced that its PTSD Drug Treatment (PTSD-DT) Program will utilize New York-based artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics company AiCure’s...

Medical School Launches New Department to Enhance Patient Care Through AI

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The University of Colorado (CU) School of Medicine has announced the launch of its new Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), which will focus on addressing health disparities and improving...

Limited Racial Data Curbs Diagnosis, Treatment of Genetic Conditions

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Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Hereditary Hemorrhagic (HHT) Center concluded that limited racial and ethnic data likely contributes to inaccurate diagnoses and treatment of rare genetic...

NY Health Consortium Receives $8M to Expand Patient Data Network

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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has awarded nearly $8 million to expand the INSIGHT Clinical Research Network, a Weill Cornell-led database containing EHR and clinical trial...

Ohio Health System to Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve Stroke Care

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Ohio-based Mercy Health – Springfield Regional Medical Center announced a collaboration with San Francisco-based software company Viz.ai to implement artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to...

SDOH Improves Performance of Heart Failure Mortality Predictive Model

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A new study published in JAMA Cardiology shows how machine learning (ML)–based models that incorporate social determinants of health (SDOH) data improve the prediction of in-hospital mortality...

Artificial Intelligence App Outperforms Patient-Reported Stool Assessments

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Researchers have determined that an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm can determine stool characteristics with high accuracy using smartphone images, outperforming patient self-reporting,...

Machine-Learning Models Can Predict Sepsis-Related Mortality

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A new study published in BMC Medical Research Methodology highlights how researchers developed and trained machine-learning (ML) models that can accurately predict 30-day mortality in patients with...

Personalized Predictive Models for Kidney Injury Outperform Traditional Methods

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A new study published in JAMA Network Open earlier this month showed that personalized artificial intelligence (AI) models for acute kidney injury (AKI) risk prediction, which use common EHR variables,...

Mayo Clinic ML Models Can Help Diagnose Hepatitis, Bacterial Infections

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A study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings shows that machine-learning (ML) models can assist healthcare workers with differentiating between alcohol-associated hepatitis and acute cholangitis using...