Artificial Intelligence

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...

AI Provides Personalized Treatment Strategies for Esophageal Cancer

by Shania Kennedy

A research team from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) has developed an algorithm to provide optimal personalized treatment options for esophageal cancer patients, according to a January study...

Machine Learning Identifies Drug Candidates for Cardiac Fibrosis

by Shania Kennedy

University of Virginia (UVA) researchers have developed a machine learning tool to identify factors associated with cardiac fibrosis and predict which drug candidates can help prevent the...

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...

Machine Learning Tool Predicts Heart Failure Treatment Response

by Shania Kennedy

A research team from The Texas Heart Institute recently developed a machine learning (ML) tool capable of characterizing and predicting diuretic responsiveness in individuals with acute decompensated...

Predictive Model Accurately Tracks Alzheimer’s Disease Progression

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) have developed a model to predict how a patient’s Alzheimer's will progress over time, according to a study published recently in...

What Are the Top Challenges of Clinical Decision Support Tools?

by Editorial Staff

Clinical decision support tools can help organizations manage large volumes of data while enabling them to deliver quality, value-based care. Designed to sort through large amounts of data and provide...

Data-Focused Strategy May Hinder Generative AI Deployment in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

Insights from Deloitte’s 2024 Health Care Generative AI Outlook Survey indicate that healthcare executives’ narrow focus on data could create blind spots that could prevent organizations...

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...

Artificial Intelligence Models May Enhance Immunotherapy Treatments

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic and IBM have found that artificial intelligence (AI) models can help provide insights into how antigen peptides interact with immune cells, which could be used to...

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),...