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NCI Grant to Support AI Use to Improve Breast Cancer Treatment

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After receiving a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Albany Medical College aim to determine the capabilities of...

CDC Funding Opportunity to Bolster Analytics-Driven Outbreak Response

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) via the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) aimed at enhancing...

Patient Trust in AI Impacted by Demographics, Clinician Involvement

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Researchers from the University of Arizona (UArizona) Health Sciences found that patients are almost evenly split about whether they would prefer a human clinician or an artificial intelligence...

Researchers Identify Barriers to AI Integration into Clinical Practice

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Researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, and technology innovation firm Covered By Group have identified barriers that early-stage digital health...

Head-Worn Device Leverages ML, MEG, Distinguishes Between Hand Gestures

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Research from the University of California San Diego described a head-worn wearable device that leverages machine learning and a noninvasive brain imaging technique called magnetoencephalography (MEG)...

Potential Racial Bias Found in Type 2 Diabetes Risk Prediction Models

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Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms used to screen for and predict type 2 diabetes may be racially biased, which could perpetuate health disparities, according to a study published last week in...

WHO Launches Global Infectious Disease Surveillance Network

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The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN), a public health network to prevent and detect infectious disease threats before they become...

Kaiser Permanente Launches Grant Program for AI, ML in Healthcare

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The Permanente Medical Group launched the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research (KP-DOR) Augmented Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare Initiative (AIM-HI) Coordinating Center,...

Optimized AI Assists Senior Radiologists in Thyroid Nodule Diagnostics

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A study published in JAMA Network Open found that in the process of thyroid nodule management, an optimized artificial intelligence (AI) strategy assisted senior radiologists while a traditional AI...

Artificial Intelligence May Be ‘Threat’ to Human Health, Experts Warn

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In a recent analysis published in BMJ Global Health, an international group of researchers and public health experts have argued that artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial general intelligence...

Tampa General Hospital Uses AI System to Assist Clinicians

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In pursuit of improved care and outcomes, Tampa General Hospital (TGH) began using an artificial intelligence (AI) system from Navina as a tool for handling patient data, according to a press release...

ACO Leverages Cloud Platform to Tackle Health Equity, SDOH Barriers

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New Jersey-based accountable care organization Shore Quality Partners will incorporate Spatially Health’s cloud-based health equity platform to flag and tackle social determinants of health...

AI Partnership to Reduce Hospital Nurses’ Documentation Burden

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BayCare Health System and healthPrecision announced a strategic partnership to co-develop the company’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based Medical Brain platform, a clinical decision support...

NIH Launches “All of Us” Precision Nutrition Research Initiative

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched its Nutrition for Precision Health, powered by the All of Us Research Program (NPH), a national initiative to learn how biological differences influence...

Google Cloud Launches AI Solutions for Drug Discovery, Precision Medicine

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Google Cloud announced the launch of two new artificial intelligence (AI)-based life sciences solutions to accelerate drug discovery and precision medicine for pharmaceutical firms, biotech companies,...

Predictive Analytics Model Forecasts Diabetic Kidney Disease

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Researchers from Sanford Burnham Prebys and the Chinese University of Hong Kong validated a predictive analytics approach to forecast whether type 2 diabetes patients will develop kidney disease,...

Machine Learning-Aided Biomarker Analysis Predicts Parkinson’s Onset

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Researchers from Boston University and Australia-based University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) developed a machine learning (ML) tool that predict Parkinson’s disease onset years before...

Johns Hopkins Machine Learning Tool Can Identify Tumor Cell Interactions

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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Convergence Institute and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a machine learning (ML) model capable of identifying molecular interactions among the...

AI Tool Assists in Predicting the Likelihood of Pancreatic Cancer

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Published in Nature Medicine, new research led by investigators from Harvard Medical School and the University of Copenhagen describes an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool that aims to enhance...

Cedars-Sinai Launches Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education

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The Cedars-Sinai Department of Computational Biomedicine established the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education (CAIRE) this week to drive innovation in artificial intelligence (AI),...