AI In Healthcare

US Providers Accelerating Spending on Health IT Software, AI

by Shania Kennedy

United States healthcare providers are accelerating their investment into IT and software technologies, with 80 percent of healthcare executives reporting that they’ve increased spending...

Artificial Intelligence Flags Knee Osteoarthritis Using Medical Images

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin’s (UT Austin) College of Natural Sciences and Dell Medical School have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of identifying...

Microsoft Collab to Build World’s Largest Pathology, Oncology Imaging AI

by Shania Kennedy

Microsoft and healthcare technology company Paige have launched a partnership to create the world’s largest image-based artificial intelligence (AI) models for digital pathology and...

Pathology Foundation Model Leverages Medical Twitter Images, Comments

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Stanford have leveraged pathology images and comments from Twitter, now known as X, to develop a large public dataset and artificial intelligence (AI) model for pathology image...

AI Voice Assistants Insufficient for Layperson CPR Instructions

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Mass General Brigham, New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Boston Children’s Hospital demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistants...

Deep Learning Model Automates Severe Heart Valve Disease Detection

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a deep learning (DL) approach that can accurately detect aortic stenosis by analyzing heart ultrasound scans, according to a study published last...

ChatGPT Achieves High Accuracy in Clinical Decision-Making Tasks

by Shania Kennedy

Mass General Brigham researchers demonstrated that ChatGPT can achieve “impressive accuracy” in clinical decision-making, with increased performance as the tool is fed more clinical...

Researchers Validate NLP Tool to Extract SDOH from Clinical Notes

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health (IU Fairbanks School) and Regenstrief Institute have validated the generalizability and portability of a natural...

Exploring Mayo Clinic’s AI Efforts to Enhance Organ Transplants

by Shania Kennedy

Organ transplants represent one of many revolutionary advancements within the field of medicine over the past century. Since the first successful human kidney transplant in 1954, the number of treatment options for once life-threatening or...

Deep Learning Method Helps Correct Motion-Corrupted Brain MRIs

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a deep learning (DL) model that can correct magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans corrupted by motion artifacts,...

Experts: Medical Community Must Help Shape Use of LLMs in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

In a special communication published this month in JAMA, researchers discussed the creation and adoption of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare, asserting that the process must be actively...

Senator Calls on Google to Ensure Ethical Deployment of Health AI

by Shania Kennedy

This week, United States Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai citing concerns about the company’s...

Duke Health, Microsoft Launch Generative Artificial Intelligence Partnership

by Shania Kennedy

Duke Health and Microsoft have announced a five-year partnership to ethically and responsibly leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology to transform healthcare. The...

Google Collab to Support Generative AI in Ambulatory Healthcare Settings

by Shania Kennedy

Google Cloud and healthcare technology company CareCloud, Inc. have announced a partnership aimed at supporting operational efficiency and digital transformation for small- and medium-sized healthcare...

Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesiology

by Shania Kennedy

In anesthesiology, as in all medical specialties, clinicians strive to support patient safety and improve outcomes. Some anesthesiology professionals are investigating how advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine...

ChatGPT Accurately Answers Ophthalmic Knowledge Assessment Questions

by Shania Kennedy

In a research letter published last week in JAMA Ophthalmology, researchers demonstrated that ChatGPT-4 provided correct responses to 84 percent of a sample of multiple-choice questions from...

ChatGPT, Provider Responses Almost Indistinguishable to Patients

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from New York University’s (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine and Tandon School of Engineering demonstrated that ChatGPT’s responses to healthcare-related queries were nearly...

Deep Learning Model Accurately Detects Cardiac Function, Disease

by Shania Kennedy

A deep learning (DL) model has been developed and validated to estimate cardiac function and valvular disease using chest radiographs, according to a study published this month in The Lancet Digital...

Discrepancies in Marketing, Clearance of AI-Enabled Medical Devices Found

by Shania Kennedy

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers found discrepancies between the marketing and 510(k) clearance of artificial intelligence (AI)- or machine learning (ML)-enabled medical...

Using AI to Support Healthcare Amid a Mental Health Provider Shortage

by Shania Kennedy

Healthcare provider shortages are nothing new, but recent shifts in care-seeking behaviors and rising demand for health services illustrate some of the unique challenges healthcare organizations face in addressing these shortages. A 2022...