Risk Assessment

ML Highlights Population Differences in Long COVID Risk, Symptoms

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine using machine learning (ML)-based analysis of electronic health record (EHR) data found that long COVID risk and symptoms present differently across diverse...

Machine-Learning Model Provides Predictions on Physician Turnover

by Mark Melchionna

A recent study by Yale University researchers detailed the creation of a machine-learning model that can assist researchers in determining physician turnover, enabling healthcare organizations to...

New Risk Score Tool Provides Accurate Predictions of Dementia Patterns

by Mark Melchionna

Published in JAMA Network Open, a recent study described the development and accuracy of a risk score tool that predicts individual dementia risk, providing clinical teams with guidance on timely...

AI Can Help Improve Identification of High-Cost Health Plan Members

by Mark Melchionna

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that identifying high-cost members was made easier through the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and the analysis of...

New Screening Tool Effective in Detecting Pediatric Asthma Risk

by Mark Melchionna

A study published in JAMA Network Open concluded that a newly developed symptom-based screening tool could detect asthma risk levels among pediatric patients as well as persistent wheezing symptoms and...

Penn State to Use Artificial Intelligence to Perform Health Risk Predictions

by Mark Melchionna

Following the receipt of a $599,883 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Penn State researchers plan to create artificial intelligence (AI)-based machine learning (ML) algorithms that can...

Researchers to Create AI Algorithms That Predict Patient Risk for Rare Diseases

by Mark Melchionna

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Florida College of Medicine are creating a set of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to...

New Mayo Clinic Artificial Intelligence Model Provides Labor Risk Predictions

by Mark Melchionna

To meet the varied healthcare needs of pregnant women, Mayo Clinic researchers created an artificial intelligence (AI)-based risk prediction model that uses labor characteristics to indicate potential...

Machine-Learning Models May Accurately Predict Postpartum Hemorrhage Risk

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research shows that machine-learning (ML) models can effectively predict the risk of postpartum hemorrhage using data pulled from de-identified...

AI Tool Can Identify Sepsis Within 12 Hours of Hospital Admission

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published in JAMA Network Open assesses an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can predict the likelihood of patients developing sepsis and the severity of the infection as quickly as 12...

Personalized Predictive Models for Kidney Injury Outperform Traditional Methods

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published in JAMA Network Open earlier this month showed that personalized artificial intelligence (AI) models for acute kidney injury (AKI) risk prediction, which use common EHR variables,...

Researchers Develop Risk Model to Predict Brain Injury, Stroke in Neonates

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published this week in JAMA Network Open shows that a recently developed risk prediction model can identify term neonates at risk of perinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAIS) using common...

AI Models Accurately Predict Clinical Risks in Multiple Hospitals Using Live Data

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research earlier this month showed that clinical risk prediction models for sepsis, delirium, and acute kidney injury (AKI) achieve high...

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...

Risk Models Show Vital Signs, Age Linked to COVID-19 Severity

by Mark Melchionna

While researching the correlation between COVID-19 and health outcomes, a study published in Scientific Reports used risk models to discover that vital signs, lab results, and age are factors that...

Artificial Intelligence Approach Helps Identify Type 2 Diabetes Risk

by Mark Melchionna

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that analyzed various factors relating to pancreas health and fat levels using...

Machine Learning Can Help Detect Abdominal Hernia Surgery Complications

by Mark Melchionna

Surgeons from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have developed machine-learning models that can calculate risks for hernia recurrence and other complications. A study that...

New AI System Assists in Detecting Heart Transplant Reactions

by Mark Melchionna

To help improve heart transplants, investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital created an artificial intelligence (AI) system known as the Cardiac Rejection Assessment Neural Estimator...

Audits, Diversifying Data Can Help Payers Address Machine Learning Biases

by Erin McNemar, MPA

As health insurers and providers increasingly turn to machine-learning algorithms to enhance care, there is a growing concern among experts regarding equity, fairness, and bias in how the technology is...

How Can Artificial Intelligence Change Medical Imaging?  

by Erin McNemar, MPA

Increasingly, researchers are looking for ways to implement artificial intelligence into medical imaging. There are several different cases for why a patient might need medical imaging. Whether it’s for a cardiac event, fracture,...