AI In Healthcare

AHIMA Launches Resource Hub for Non-Clinical AI Use in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has launched its AI Resource Hub to provide healthcare and health information (HI) stakeholders with knowledge around the use of...

Researchers Call for Outcome-Centric Approach to Health AI Regulation

by Shania Kennedy

In a recent viewpoint published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) argued that the White House Executive Order on...

Data Augmentation May Improve LLM Generalization on Clinical Notes

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University have developed a technique to improve the performance of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models for medical note...

UC San Diego Risk Stratification AI Predicts Sepsis, Reduces Mortality

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of California (UC) San Diego School of Medicine have found that an artificial intelligence (AI) model deployed in emergency departments to forecast patients’...

ML Model Predicts Complications Following Cardiovascular Interventions

by Shania Kennedy

A research team from the University of Michigan has developed a machine learning tool capable of accurately predicting death, major bleeding events, and the need for blood transfusion in patients...

Precision Medicine Tool May Enhance Pancreatic Cancer Outcome Prediction

by Shania Kennedy

The use of a precision medicine tool designed by Cedars-Sinai researchers has led to the development of a blood test that outperforms the only United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved...

UCLA Releases Public-Access Surgical Outcomes Database for AI Training

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have developed a repository of surgical outcomes data to help the medical research...

WHO Releases Governance Guidelines for Generative Artificial Intelligence

by Shania Kennedy

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidance on the governance of large multi-modal models (LMMs) – a type of generative artificial intelligence (AI) – in healthcare. The...

Predictive Models for Personalized Medicine Have Limited Generalizability

by Shania Kennedy

Yale researchers have found that the predictive algorithms used to forecast treatment efficacy and guide personalized medicine efforts have limited effectiveness when generalized to patient cohorts...

AI-Driven Eye Exams May Increase Screening Rates Among Diabetic Youth

by Shania Kennedy

A research team from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center has found that an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) tool to screen youth populations for diabetic eye disease (DED) can also increase...

Deep Learning Tool May Help Detect Pediatric Rheumatic Heart Disease

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Children’s National Hospital have developed a deep learning (DL) to detect latent rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in children, which may improve case identification and treatment...

University of Massachusetts DL Model to Predict Alzheimer’s Onset

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst have received a two-year, $278,118 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build deep learning models for the early...

Exploring the National Academy of Medicine’s AI Code of Conduct

by Shania Kennedy

The question of how the healthcare industry can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) ethically and responsibly has become a hot topic in recent years. Throughout 2022 and 2023, industry professionals, policymakers, and regulatory...

Generative AI May Help Flag Social Determinants of Health in EHR Data

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Mass General Brigham have found that specialized large language models (LLMs) can identify under-documented social determinants of health (SDOH) in electronic health records (EHRs),...

AI-Driven ECG Analysis Accurately Predicts Right-Side Heart Issues

by Shania Kennedy

A research team from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help predict which cardiovascular patients are at increased risk for poor right...

Healthcare Stakeholders Plan to Prioritize AI, Analytics This Year

by Shania Kennedy

As the new year begins, health systems are gearing up for new opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. For many, top priorities from last year — such as establishing analytics infrastructure, deploying predictive analytics,...

Case Western Reserve University to Develop Enhanced Medical Imaging AI

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have received a four-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) approach to make...

Framework to Address Algorithmic Bias in Healthcare AI Models

by Shania Kennedy

A panel of experts convened by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) to address the issue of algorithmic...

Arguing the Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

by Editorial Staff

In what seems like the blink of an eye, mentions of artificial intelligence (AI) have become ubiquitous in the healthcare industry.  From deep learning algorithms that can read computed...

Kaiser Permanente Awards Funding for Healthcare AI, ML Research

by Shania Kennedy

The Kaiser Permanente Augmented Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare Initiative (AIM-HI) Coordinating Center has awarded grant funding to five projects that explore how artificial intelligence (AI)...