AI In Healthcare

AI Approach Offers Higher Rate of Diabetes Remission Than Standard Care

by Shania Kennedy

Use of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool has shown the highest reported rate of type 2 diabetes remission to date, according to research presented at the 82nd Scientific Sessions of the American...

New Collaboration to Leverage Engineering, AI to Improve Nursing Education

by Shania Kennedy

The Ohio State University Colleges of Nursing and Engineering are working together to launch a new project called ‘Disrupting Nursing Education with XR, AI and ML,’ which aims to better...

New Initiative Combines Nursing Expertise, AI to Create Prediction Model

by Shania Kennedy

Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) is leading a multi-hospital effort known as the CONCERN (COmmunicating Narrative Concerns Entered by RNs) Initiative, which aims to utilize...

Researchers Call for ‘Distributed Approach’ to Clinical AI Regulation

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers argue that the national, centralized regulation of clinical artificial intelligence (AI) is not sufficient and instead propose a hybrid model of centralized and decentralized...

In-Person Screening, Machine Learning Can Help Predict Suicide Risk

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers found that suicide risk predictions for adult patients significantly improve when using an approach that combines in-person screening with an EHR-based machine-learning (ML) model. The...

Geisinger Deploys AI Imaging Model to Diagnose Coronary Artery Disease

by Shania Kennedy

Clinicians at Pennsylvania-based Geisinger health system have deployed an artificial intelligence (AI) medical imaging model that uses computed tomography (CT) scans to create 3D models of a...

Stakeholders Urge White House’s AI Office to Include Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

In a letter to the chair and vice-chair of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office (NAIIO), healthcare and technology stakeholders asked that healthcare be included in the scope of its...

Geisinger, Tempus Develop AI Model to Predict Heart Disease

by Shania Kennedy

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 Shania Kennedy

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 Shania Kennedy

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 Shania Kennedy

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 Shania Kennedy

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...

New Framework to Evaluate Bias in COVID-19 Prediction Models

by Shania Kennedy

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 Shania Kennedy

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...

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

by Shania Kennedy

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...

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

by Shania Kennedy

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...

AI Model Can Accurately Detect Multiple Retinal Diseases in Real Time

by Shania Kennedy

New research has found that a deep-learning (DL) algorithm can detect multiple retinal diseases simultaneously in a clinical setting. In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers developed...

Machine-Learning Models Outperform Clinicians in Predicting Cancer Growth

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have developed lymph node metastasis (LNM) prediction models based on natural language processing (NLP) and machine-learning (ML) algorithms. In a study published in JMIR Medical...

New Machine-Learning Models Can Predict 6-Month Cancer Mortality

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers have validated and developed machine-learning (ML) models that can predict six-month mortality for patients with advanced solid tumors who are considering a new line of therapy (LoT). A...

UPMC, Pitt Develop Machine Learning Model to Predict Brain Injury Outcomes

by Shania Kennedy

According to researchers from UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, advanced machine learning can be used to predict outcomes in patients with severe traumatic brain injuries...