AI In Healthcare

How Will Biden’s Executive Order on Trustworthy AI Impact Healthcare?

by Shania Kennedy

In October, President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The order establishes guardrails focused on promoting safety and security, protecting...

Large Language Models May Improve Clinician Diagnostic Performance

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) found that the large language model (LLM) ChatGPT-4 outperforms clinicians in some instances of estimating the probabilities of diagnoses...

Providers, Payers Sign Pledge for Ethical, Responsible AI in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

At the 2023 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Annual Meeting, 28 health systems and payers signed a pledge to advance the ethical and responsible use of...

AMA Survey Reveals Physicians’ Sentiments on Healthcare AI

by Shania Kennedy

A new survey published by the American Medical Association (AMA) shows that clinicians are enthusiastic but cautious about augmented intelligence — also known as artificial intelligence (AI)...

Google Launches Generative Artificial Intelligence Models for Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

Google announced the launch of MedLM, a suite of foundation models designed to help healthcare organizations meet their needs through generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to a blog post...

AI-Aided Colonoscopy May Improve Colorectal Neoplasia Detection

by Shania Kennedy

A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) published last week in eClinicalMedicine showed that artificial intelligence (AI)-aided colonoscopy may enhance the detection...

Large Language Model May Help Better Identify Postpartum Hemorrhage

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital have determined that a large language model (LLM) may be more accurate at identifying patients with postpartum hemorrhage than standard methods,...

How Can Medical Schools Educate Students on Artificial Intelligence?

by Shania Kennedy

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in healthcare as stakeholders work to assess how these tools can be used to drive improvements in areas like clinician burnout, population health, and precision medicine. As health systems begin...

New Healthcare AI Framework Incorporates Medical Knowledge, Values

by Shania Kennedy

A novel normative framework for healthcare artificial intelligence (AI), described in a recent issue of Patterns, asserts that medical knowledge, procedures, practices, and values should be considered...

AMA Establishes New Principles for AI Development, Deployment and Use

by Shania Kennedy

The American Medical Association (AMA) issued new principles to guide the development, deployment and use of augmented intelligence (AI) in healthcare, according to a press release shared with...

$31M Awards to Support Medical AI Innovation at UTHealth Houston

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston were awarded over $31 million for 16 projects aimed at driving innovations in healthcare artificial intelligence...

Consumers Believe Generative AI May Make Healthcare More Affordable

by Shania Kennedy

New data from Deloitte’s 2023 Health Care Consumer Survey indicate that health is a major driver of generative artificial intelligence (AI) use among consumers, many of whom expressed optimism at...

MD Anderson Cancer Center Launches Institute for Data Science in Oncology

by Shania Kennedy

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center recently launched its Institute for Data Science in Oncology (IDSO), which aims to transform cancer care and research through the application of...

Large Language Model Diagnoses, Triages Without Introducing Biases

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health have demonstrated that Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) can diagnose and triage various health conditions on par with...

Vanderbilt, Duke Awarded $1.25M to Improve Health Systems’ AI Oversight

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Duke University School of Medicine have been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to establish a...

Emory University Establishes Empathetic AI for Health Institute

by Shania Kennedy

Emory University will launch the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute (Emory AI.Health) later this month, which will support the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics...

Will Clinicians Become Dependent on Artificial Intelligence Tools?

by Shania Kennedy

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have garnered much attention in the healthcare industry in recent years, but the hype raises significant questions and concerns. How should these technologies be developed? For what use cases?...

Generative AI May Facilitate Improved Chest X-Ray Interpretation

by Shania Kennedy

A team of Northwestern Medicine researchers has created a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool capable of interpreting chest radiographs with accuracy on par with or above radiologists for some...

AI Tools May Detect Heart Valve Disease, Predict Cardiovascular Risk

by Shania Kennedy

Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning tools may be capable of accurately detecting heart valve disease and predicting the risk of cardiovascular disease events, according to two preliminary...

ML Model Estimates Chemotherapy Success in Bone Cancer Patients

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have developed a machine learning (ML) tool capable of estimating the percent necrosis (PN)—the percentage of a tumor that is considered “dead”...