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Locally Run Large Language Models May Help Preserve Patient Privacy

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Researchers from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (NIH CC) found that a locally run, privacy-preserving large language model (LLM) may be suitable for labeling radiography reports,...

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...

AI Pain Recognition Tool Detects Pain Before, During and After Surgery

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Researchers presenting at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2023 annual meeting demonstrated that an automated pain recognition system leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) may be capable of detecting pain in...

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...

“All of Us” Program Launches Center for Linkage and Acquisition of Data

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The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program awarded $30 million to the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) and its partners to establish the new Center...

Artificial Intelligence Model May Help Predict Future Viral Outbreaks

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Researchers from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the University of Oxford have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool capable of predicting how a virus could evolve to escape the immune...

Predictive Models May Negatively Impact the Performance of Future Tools

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Researchers from the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine and the University of Michigan have found that the deployment of predictive analytics tools may influence the predictive capabilities of...

AHIMA Launches Social Determinants of Health Data Initiative

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The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) announced its Data for Better Health initiative, which aims to revolutionize healthcare through the use of social determinants of health...

Generative Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Launched at HLTH 2023

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A group of over 30 founding partners launched the Vision, Alignment, Learning, Implementation, and Dissemination of Validated Generative AI in Healthcare (VALID AI) collaborative this week at HLTH to...

Risk Stratification May Reduce Unnecessary Pediatric Oophorectomies

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A consensus-based, preoperative risk stratification algorithm may help reduce unnecessary oophorectomies in pediatric and adolescent patients with benign ovarian disease, according to a study published...

Precision Medicine Tool May Accurately Predict Bariatric Surgery Outcomes

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Researchers from the University at Buffalo (UB) have demonstrated that a tool originally designed to predict a patient’s risk level for various addictions using genetic and psychosocial factors...

$2.8M NIH Grant to Support Development of Kidney Transplant AI

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Researchers at University of Florida (UF) Health have been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based clinical decision...

AI Tool May Improve Tumor Removal Accuracy During Breast Cancer Surgery

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Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Surgery, the Joint UNC-North Carolina State University (NCSU) Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the UNC Lineberger...

University of Texas Awarded Funding for Disease Relapse Prediction AI

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) have been awarded a $450,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to develop a machine learning-based model to predict...

AI Achieves High Diagnostic Accuracy in Virtual Primary Care Setting

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Diagnostic agreement between providers and an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool was high within the context of virtual primary care, according to a study published recently in Mayo Clinic...

ML Predicts Suicidal Ideation Among Sexual, Gender Minority Individuals

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Researchers demonstrated that a machine learning (ML) model could effectively predict short- and long-term suicidal ideation in sexual and gender minority individuals using ecological momentary...

CDC Awards to Establish National Infectious Disease Forecasting Network

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded roughly $262.5 million in grant funding over the next five years to 13 institutions to help establish a national infectious disease and...

ML Helps Identify Variations in Individualized Normal Temperature Ranges

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Machine learning (ML) may help define personalized temperature norms and improve the clinical utility of oral temperature measurements, according to a study published this month in JAMA Internal...

Breast Cancer Detection AI Performs On Par with Human Mammogram Readers

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The diagnostic performance of a commercially available artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm was comparable with that of human readers of mammograms, according to a study published recently in...

Machine Learning Model May Help Optimize Therapeutic Antibodies

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Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a machine learning (ML) model to help optimize therapeutic antibodies and make them less prone to binding non-target molecules, according to a...