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4 Emerging Strategies to Advance Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

February 28, 2024 - While the potential for big data analytics in healthcare has been a hot topic in recent years, the possible risks of using these tools have received just as much attention. Big data analytics technologies have demonstrated their promise in enhancing multiple areas of care, from medical imaging and chronic disease management to population health and...


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Hartford HealthCare Launches Center for AI Innovation

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Hartford HealthCare has launched its Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Innovation in Healthcare, one of a handful of such centers in the United States set to pursue AI research and development in...

What Are the Benefits of Predictive Analytics in Healthcare?

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Predictive analytics in healthcare plays a major role in improving care delivery and patient outcomes. By leveraging historical data, this type of analytics allows health systems to gauge what’s...

Data-Focused Strategy May Hinder Generative AI Deployment in Healthcare

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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...

Case Western Reserve University to Develop Enhanced Medical Imaging AI

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Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have received a four-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) approach to make...

Arguing the Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

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In what seems like the blink of an eye, mentions of artificial intelligence (AI) have become ubiquitous in the healthcare industry.  From deep learning algorithms that can read computed...

Kaiser Permanente Awards Funding for Healthcare AI, ML Research

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The Kaiser Permanente Augmented Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare Initiative (AIM-HI) Coordinating Center has awarded grant funding to five projects that explore how artificial intelligence (AI)...

NYC Health Dept. Expands Work to Address Racism in Clinical Algorithms

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The Coalition to End Racism in Clinical Algorithms (CERCA), a New York City Health Department-led effort to investigate the use of race-based medical algorithms, is expanding its work to include...

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

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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...

Google Launches Generative Artificial Intelligence Models for Healthcare

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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...

NIH Funding to Advance “All of Us” Research Program Dataset Use

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $9.7 million to 26 two-year projects that will advance high-priority research by leveraging the All of Us Research Program dataset. Each project...

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

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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

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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

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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...

Emory University Establishes Empathetic AI for Health Institute

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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...

$2.3M NIH Award to Support AI-Driven Brain Imaging Research

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Researchers from Indiana University have been awarded $2.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the development of open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tools for...

Achieving Clinical AI Fairness Requires Multidisciplinary Collaboration

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In a perspective published recently in npj Digital Medicine, researchers led by a team at Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School asserted that the pursuit of fair artificial...

Washington University in St. Louis Launches AI for Health Institute

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The McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has established the AI for Health Institute, which will bring together clinical researchers and artificial intelligence experts...

Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate Announces Fourth Health Tech Cohort

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Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate has announced its fourth cohort of health tech startups to participate in the program, which is designed to support the validation and clinical readiness of each...

NIH Award to Establish Data Integration Hub for Common Fund Programs

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Researchers at the University of California San Diego and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai received an $8.5 million award to establish a data integration hub to accelerate the work of...