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Audits, Diversifying Data Can Help Payers Address Machine Learning Biases

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As health insurers and providers increasingly turn to machine-learning algorithms to enhance care, there is a growing concern among experts regarding equity, fairness, and bias in how the technology is...

Ohio Cancer Center Joins Precision Oncology Alliance

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The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center –Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James) have joined Caris Life Science's Precision...

Data Analytics Points to Cardiovascular Risk After COVID-19

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Data analytics indicated that individuals who have had COVID-19 are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular complications, from the first month to a year after the infection, according to...

Artificial Intelligence Can Help Free Up Anesthesiologists’ Time in OR

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Artificial intelligence systems may be able to assist anesthesiologists in the operating room, according to MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers. In a special edition of Artificial...

Health System to Employ AI, Analytics to Improve Mental Health Access

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UCHealth, based in Aurora, Colorado, is partnering with HealthRhythms, a digital mental health startup, to offer an artificial intelligence-based digital platform to millions of mental health...

UNC Researchers To Lead NIH Precision Nutrition Centers

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 The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill will play an important role in the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) new study on precision nutrition. UNC received two of 14 awards...

UCI Health Aims to Improve Remote Patient Monitoring Via AI Partnership

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To support continuous artificial intelligence-powered remote monitoring of acute and post-acute care, UCI Health has announced a multi-year agreement with Biofourmis, a Boston-based global lead in...

Industry Applauds as Biden Reboots Cancer Moonshot

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Almost six years to the day after the Cancer Moonshot Task Force met for the first time, President Joe Biden announced the reignition of the initiative, aiming to reduce the cancer death rate by 50...

NIH Researchers Develop Personalized Breast Cancer Therapy Approach

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National Cancer Institute researchers have revealed an experimental form of immunotherapy that uses a patient’s tumor-fighting immune cells to treat those with metastatic breast cancer, advancing...

New Collab to Give Rare Disease Project Access to Data Analysis Tech

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Komodo Health announced it will provide rare disease patient advocacy organizations in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s (CZI) Rare as One Network with analytics to improve earlier diagnosis,...

NC Health System Enters AI Partnership To Improve Care Coordination 

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Cone Health, a nonprofit healthcare network serving patients in North Carolina, and Rad AI, a radiologist-led artificial intelligence company, announced the finalization of their partnership to...

AI Collaboration to Create Personalized Healthcare  

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Health at Scale and Walmart are joining forces to produce personalized provider recommendations for Walmart associates and their families using artificial intelligence.  Health at Scale is a...

Viewpoint: Pandemic Promise of Machine Learning Falls Short  

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With the recent advances in machine learning algorithms, healthcare professionals had high expectations for the technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, according to an analysis published by...

Newly Developed Artificial Intelligence Method Evaluates Vision Loss 

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National Eye Institute researchers created and validated an artificial intelligence-based method to evaluate patients with Stargardt, an eye disease that can lead to childhood vision loss. The AI...

Can Artificial Intelligence Boost Mental Healthcare Accessibility? 

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According to MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers, artificial intelligence could improve the accessibility of mental healthcare. The investigation was led by MIT Professor of Media Arts...

Blood Biomarkers Can Help Determine Post-Pregnancy Depression 

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Michigan-based researchers found that signs of inflammation in blood could predict and identify severe depression during and after pregnancy, promoting precision medicine efforts. By...

Machine Learning Tool Provides ED Clinical Decision Support 

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University of Minnesota Medical School researchers evaluated the real-time performance of a machine learning tool that supported clinical decision-making for emergency department discharges at M...

Data Analysis Reveals Genes Linked to Rare Respiratory Disease

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According to a large data analysis by the Indiana University School of Medicine, the rare respiratory disease called primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is more common than previously thought. The data...

AI Partnership to Reduce Emergency Department Length of Stay 

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Novant Health, a health network of over 1,800 physicians with 15 medical centers across three states, and Aidoc, the leading provider of enterprise-grade artificial intelligence solutions for medical...

Using Machine Learning For Personalized Breast Cancer Screenings 

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Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning and Health studied the use of machine learning to...