Health IT Analytics and Population Health News

Geisinger, Tempus Develop AI Model to Predict Heart Disease

by

Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger health system and biotechnology research company Tempus have developed an electrocardiogram (ECG)-based artificial intelligence (AI) model that can predict...

NC Radiology Center to Deploy AI Tools for Enhanced Breast Cancer Care

by

Physician-owned radiology company US Radiology Specialists is partnering with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) software company Volpara Health to deploy AI tools at Charlotte Radiology with the...

AI Framework Cuts Time, Effort Needed to Predict Critical Care Outcomes

by

Researchers from the University of Washington’s School of Medicine and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) framework that...

AI Device May Help Diagnose Children’s Autism in Primary Care Settings

by

New research has found that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical device can assist clinicians in primary care settings accurately diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children up to 6...

NIH Awards $68M to AI Company as Part of Antiviral Drug Development Collab

by

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced that PostEra, a biotechnology company specializing in machine learning for preclinical drug discovery, has been awarded $68 million as part of the...

Machine-Learning Clinical Decision Support Tool Improves UTI Treatment

by

Researchers have found that a machine learning-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) significantly impacted treatment success and antibiotic prescription behavior for urinary tract infections...

Miami Cancer Institute to Address Care Gaps Through Analytics Partnership

by

Miami Cancer Institute has partnered with COTA to eliminate disparities by using data and analytics to examine how patient demographics such as ethnicity and area of residence affect the quality of...

AI Can Detect Race When Clinicians Cannot, Increasing Risk of Bias

by

Researchers have found that artificial intelligence (AI) models can accurately detect self-reported racial identity using medical images, but the mechanisms they use to do so are unclear to...

NY Cancer Center Develops Machine-Learning Sensor to Sniff Out Cancer

by

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have created a tool that can sniff for and identify cancer in blood samples using machine learning. Like the human nose, the tool uses...

New Center to Combine Engineering, Precision Medicine

by

Intending to combine engineering and medicine, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai formed a collaboration that will work to find treatments for...

New Framework to Evaluate Bias in COVID-19 Prediction Models

by

Researchers have developed a framework to evaluate and address unrecognized modeling bias that can be present in healthcare-related artificial intelligence (AI). According to a study published in...

Microsoft’s Nuance Launches AI Collaborative for Health System Leaders

by

Nuance, a Microsoft company specializing in conversational artificial intelligence (AI), has partnered with peer-learning company The Health Management Academy (The Academy) to launch the AI...

Mayo, CDC Leaders: Policy, Coalitions Key Barriers to Data Modernization

by

To prepare for the next pandemic, healthcare leaders believe that data modernization is key, but several challenges stand in the way, including conflicting policies, lack of interoperability, and the...

Huntsville Heart Center to Test AI-Based Cardiac Technology

by

As artificial intelligence (AI) use in healthcare grows, a new partnership between Artrya and Alabama-based Huntsville Heart Center aims to access the efficacy of Artrya Salix, an AI-based cardiac...

AI Model Uses Free-Text Data to Accurately Classify COVID-19 Symptoms

by

Researchers have developed a prediction model that can convert coronavirus-related free text information from EMRs into symptom-based data. In a study published in JMIR Medical Informatics,...

CDC to Expand Wastewater Monitoring for COVID-19 Through Analytics Collab

by

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and wastewater epidemiology company Biobot Analytics have announced a partnership to expand the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS),...

AI May Be More Prone to Errors in Image-Based Diagnoses Than Clinicians

by

Researchers have found that deep neural networks (DNNs) make mistakes in image-based medical diagnoses that humans are less likely to make, and they hypothesize that these mistakes may indicate that...

PA Health System Develops ML Model to Interpret Cancer Mutations

by

Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed a machine-learning (ML) platform to help clinicians identify cancer mutations and interpret their potential significance...

Machine-Learning Models Able to Predict Risk of Renal Function Decline

by

Research has found that machine-learning (ML) models can use standard clinical data to predict renal function decline (RFD) with similar accuracy to that of traditional prediction methods. In a new...

Mayo Clinic-Developed AI Algorithm Can Detect Weak Heart Function

by

Mayo Clinic researchers have created an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that uses single-lead Apple Watch electrocardiogram signals to detect a weak heart pump, specifically low ventricular...