Tools & Strategies News

Deep-Learning Tool May Facilitate Monkeypox, Skin Disease Identification

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A study published this month in the Journal of Medical Systems shows that a deep learning (DL)-based mobile application can accurately identify monkeypox infection using images of skin lesions. On...

New AI Model Can Predict Unplanned Hospitalization During Cancer Therapy

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US-based researchers have created a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that uses data from consumer wearables, like daily step counts, to determine health outcomes during cancer therapy and predict...

Digitally Mature Providers Glean More Value from Analytics, AI Adoption

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A new report by Frost & Sullivan, commissioned by Innovaccer, has found links between US health system digital maturity and performance across several digital transformation metrics, including the...

New Patient Outcome Prediction Tool May Improve Clinical Decision-Making

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A new study published last week in PLOS Digital Health shows that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based predictive analytics tool can accurately forecast patient risk for deterioration and other...

Artificial Intelligence Model Can Support Rare Disease Diagnoses, Treatment

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Investigators from the Mahmood Lab at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that an artificial intelligence (AI) model, known as Self-Supervised Image Search for Histology...

New Screening Tool Effective in Detecting Pediatric Asthma Risk

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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...

ML Tools Facilitate Early Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder

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A new study published in BMJ Health & Care Informatics shows that machine-learning (ML) models can accurately predict autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk in children 18 to 30 months old using...

Researchers Outline AI-Related Clinical Competencies for Health Professionals

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A research report published in Academic Medicine outlines artificial intelligence (AI)-related clinical competencies for healthcare professionals in an effort to address practical and ethical concerns...

Blood Test Uses AI, Biomarkers to Identify Infant Heart Defects Before Birth

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A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology shows that a blood test, which leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and genetic biomarkers, can prenatally identify fetal...

Penn State to Use Artificial Intelligence to Perform Health Risk Predictions

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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...

AI Tool Can Detect Signs of Mental Health Decline in Text Messages

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A study published last month in Psychiatric Services shows that an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm can detect and classify cognitive distortions, or “red-flag language,” in text...

Clinical Trials Assessing ML Methods Lack Transparent Reporting, Inclusivity

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A study published in JAMA Network Open found that researchers must improve the randomized clinical trials (RCTs) to test machine-learning (ML) algorithms by making the trials more inclusive and...

ML-Based Automated Screening Tool Can Determine Pulmonary Fibrosis Risk

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Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, the University of Chicago, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Mayo Clinic have created a machine learning (ML)-based screening tool...

AI Model Predicts Hospitalization Outcomes Among Dementia Patients

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Researchers from Houston Methodist created an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can successfully predict hospitalization outcomes among dementia patients, leading to improved timeliness of care,...

Hackensack Meridian Health to Leverage Google’s New Medical Imaging Tool

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New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health is set to implement Google Cloud’s newly released Medical Imaging Suite to de-identify petabytes of images to enhance the health system’s...

Penn State Health Implements AI-Driven Virtual ICU to Lessen Physician Burnout

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Aiming to address the problems resulting from clinician shortages and capacity issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, Penn State Health has partnered with CLEW Medical to launch a virtual intensive care...

OH Health System Leverages AI to Bolster Colon Cancer Screenings, Health Equity

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University Hospitals (UH) Cleveland Medical Center has been awarded artificial intelligence (AI)-based endoscopy tools by the Medtronic Health Equity Assistance Program, which will be used to support...

Machine Learning Finds New Patterns of Decline in ALS, Alzheimer’s

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Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a machine-learning (ML) tool capable of identifying new patterns of health decline in neurodegenerative diseases such as...

Mayo Clinic Study Shows AI Can Help Detect Atrial Fibrillation

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Aiming to lower the prevalence of undiagnosed atrial fibrillation and stroke, researchers from Mayo Clinic tested an artificial intelligence (AI)-based screening strategy designed to determine new...

New Machine-Learning Tool Identifies Injection Drug Use Using EHR Data

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Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Health have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool that can identify people who inject drugs using EHR data faster and more...