Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Artificial intelligence in healthcare incorporates algorithms, machine learning, natural language processing and emerging AI technology to analyze complex medical data. Healthcare AI assists in diagnostic pathology, treatment planning and patient care management by facilitating greater efficiency and accuracy in clinical decisions, medical research and personalized medicine.
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11 Apr 2025
How AI EHR tools are helping support practice independence
AI EHR tools for fax automation and clinical documentation are helping one Maine doctor maintain practice independence and improve patient-centered care. Continue Reading
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11 Apr 2025
10 top AI tools in healthcare for 2025
AI tools are transforming healthcare by enhancing efficiency and care quality through predictive analytics and tailored diagnostics. Explore some of the major tools on the market. Continue Reading
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11 Apr 2025
Navigating healthcare AI innovation and data privacy laws
As healthcare AI adoption grows, stakeholders must balance the intersection of patient data privacy and innovation, navigating evolving regulations along the way. Continue Reading
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09 Apr 2025
Why health AI needs an environmental impact framework
With health AI usage rising, healthcare stakeholders must recognize its adverse environmental effects and strategize ways to balance AI benefits with the consequences. Continue Reading
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08 Apr 2025
10 benefits of AI in healthcare
Healthcare was one of the first and more notable industries to achieve tangible AI benefits, including image analysis, accurate diagnoses, earlier treatments and patient privacy. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2025
10 AI healthcare trends to watch in 2025 and beyond
AI is redefining the healthcare sector, with hospitals, health systems and large medical practices incorporating AI technologies into clinical and administrative workflows. Continue Reading
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04 Apr 2025
Survey: Gen AI in healthcare gains momentum across sectors
New survey data show that gen AI in healthcare continues to gain traction across sectors as leaders prioritize administrative efficiency. Continue Reading
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02 Apr 2025
How Epic is finding the “sweet spot” for EHR AI integration
As digital health transformation progresses, thoughtfully implementing EHR AI tools will require balancing efficiency, provider trust and scalable adoption. Continue Reading
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31 Mar 2025
Arguing the pros and cons of AI in healthcare
Clinical diagnostics, workload reduction and predictive analytics are among AI's advantages in healthcare, but concerns persist about patient privacy, ethics and medical errors. Continue Reading
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28 Mar 2025
Ambient AI scribes reduce burnout, but cost impact uncertain
Ambient AI scribes reduce clinician burnout and improve patient experience, but their ROI and cost-effectiveness are unclear, a new PHTI report shows. Continue Reading
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27 Mar 2025
Attitudes toward AI in healthcare improve, but concerns remain
New survey results show that physicians are increasingly using AI for clinical documentation, but many indicate concerns about the use of AI in healthcare for diagnoses. Continue Reading
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26 Mar 2025
How predictive analytics could improve SDOH screening
As healthcare organizations seek to improve health equity, predictive analytics using robust EHR data could help flag patients likely to have future health-related social needs. Continue Reading
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21 Mar 2025
How can quantum computers be used in healthcare?
Commercial products are few, and wide availability is probably a few years away, but lab research and prototypes show progress in drug design, medical imaging and genetic modeling. Continue Reading
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13 Mar 2025
Study: ML mortality prediction misses 66% of severe injuries
When given test cases with different injury levels, ML mortality prediction models gave inconsistent risk scores, overestimating moderate injuries and underestimating severe ones. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2025
HIMSS25: Navigating the cost-benefit dilemma of health AI
At HIMSS 2025, healthcare leaders discussed how they approach cost-benefit analyses of AI tools, focusing on the need for defining benefits and improving physician well-being. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2025
KLAS: ClosedLoop leads health AI vendors in client satisfaction
In a KLAS report, ClosedLoop clients reported the highest levels of satisfaction across four measured health AI vendors, noting strong partnership. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2025
RPA to Gen AI: How AI in revenue cycle management is evolving
AI in revenue cycle management is at an inflection point, with providers adopting automation, NLP and generative AI to streamline processes and reduce burdens. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2025
What is Google AI?
Google AI, formerly known as Google Research, is Google's artificial intelligence (AI) research and development (R&D) branch for its AI applications. Continue Reading
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26 Feb 2025
How health systems are building clinician trust in AI
Mayo Clinic, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Duke Health leaders highlighted strategies to foster trust in AI tools and support successful implementation efforts. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2025
PCPs seek additional training to fully trust healthcare AI
New survey data show that while using healthcare AI is common in primary care, clinicians desire additional training to fully trust AI tools. Continue Reading
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20 Feb 2025
Ambient scribing reduces cognitive burden of documentation
While ambient scribing shows promise for clinical documentation efficiency, the technology may be more suitable for certain specialties or workflows than others. Continue Reading
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19 Feb 2025
What to expect at HIMSS25: AI, cybersecurity and more
The HIMSS25 conference will feature new perspectives on artificial intelligence, health equity, cybersecurity and more, with preconference forums and a pavilion for new vendors. Continue Reading
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19 Feb 2025
Most patients do not trust health systems to use AI responsibly
Trust in health systems to use AI responsibility and protect them from AI harm is low among patients, indicating the need to improve health system trustworthiness. Continue Reading
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12 Feb 2025
Physician enthusiasm for healthcare AI rises, concerns linger
While 68% of physicians report advantages to healthcare AI, many physicians have lingering concerns regarding privacy risks, EHR integration and a lack of oversight. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2025
What is brain-computer interface (BCI)?
Brain-computer interface (BCI) is a device that translates signals in the brain to control some external activity. Continue Reading
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06 Feb 2025
2025 Best in KLAS highlights ClosedLoop for healthcare AI
The 2025 'Best in KLAS: Software and Services' report ranked health IT vendor ClosedLoop first for overall performance in the Healthcare AI: Data Science Solutions category. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2025
Clinician adoption of ambient speech tools quickly rising
As adoption of ambient speech tools continues to grow, a KLAS report highlights vendor performance, clinician satisfaction and integration capabilities. Continue Reading
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30 Jan 2025
How ambient AI is cutting burnout, upping patient experience
Clinicians at the University of Iowa Health Care reported a 26% decrease in clinician burnout after a five-week pilot of an ambient AI documentation tool. Continue Reading
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30 Jan 2025
Generative AI tool shows promise in nephrology triage
A generative AI tool determined the need for nephrology care and triaged patients appropriately in most cases, but there are potential gaps and concerns with the tool's use. Continue Reading
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Podcast
28 Jan 2025
2025 predictions: GLP-1s, telehealth, AI, employer health plans
Healthcare leaders seeking to establish 2025 healthcare predictions must face many unknowns in policy, digital health, drug utilization and costs, telehealth utilization and more. Continue Reading
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23 Jan 2025
AI approach pinpoints long COVID care needs among kids
Research describes a machine learning approach to identify the diverse healthcare needs of pediatric long COVID patients, enabling personalized care. Continue Reading
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14 Jan 2025
HHS releases AI strategic plan, roadmap for AI in healthcare
HHS' AI strategic plan is a roadmap for how the department will tackle AI opportunities and risks in healthcare. Continue Reading
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06 Jan 2025
Understanding de-identified patient data, how to use it
Healthcare data de-identification provides significant opportunities to bolster medical research and patient care, but the process is not without its pitfalls. Continue Reading
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02 Jan 2025
Predicting 2025's top analytics, AI trends in healthcare
Identifying the value proposition of analytics technologies and establishing AI governance frameworks will be key for healthcare organizations in 2025. Continue Reading
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18 Dec 2024
Supporting GLP-1 prescribing with digital twin technology
GLP-1s have exploded in popularity, but are not suitable for every patient. A digital twin could provide decision support for clinicians without access to expert second opinions. Continue Reading
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17 Dec 2024
AI in medical diagnostics and decision-making
AI technologies enable doctors to improve diagnostic accuracy, personalize treatment plans and streamline clinical workflows. However, they also pose challenges worth considering. Continue Reading
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09 Dec 2024
Investigating how GenAI can support clinical decision-making
With the rapid expansion of medical knowledge, clinicians must spend significant time and effort to stay abreast of advances in their field. Can AI help? Continue Reading
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06 Dec 2024
What is a collaborative robot (cobot)?
A collaborative robot, also known as a cobot, is an industrial robot that can safely operate alongside humans in a shared workspace. Continue Reading
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04 Dec 2024
FDA finalizes AI-enabled medical device guidance
New FDA guidelines streamline the process for approving modifications to medical device software that incorporates artificial intelligence and machine learning. Continue Reading
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20 Nov 2024
What is speech recognition?
Speech recognition, or speech-to-text, is the ability of a machine or program to identify words spoken aloud and convert them into readable text. Continue Reading
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20 Nov 2024
Study reveals cost-efficiency strategy for LLM deployment
Efficient deployment of large language models at scale in healthcare settings could streamline clinical workflows and reduce costs up to 17-fold without sacrificing reliability. Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2024
Exploring 3 types of healthcare natural language processing
Natural language processing, understanding and generation might help healthcare stakeholders make better use of their wealth of unstructured, text-based data. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2024
Exploring ACR's AI quality assurance program for radiology
The American College of Radiology's national quality assurance program seeks to help providers safely and effectively implement medical imaging AI. Continue Reading
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07 Nov 2024
Medical testing inequities contribute to racial bias in AI
Inequitable lab testing to diagnose severe disease can create racial biases in the data used to train healthcare AI, potentially perpetuating care disparities. Continue Reading
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06 Nov 2024
LLMs might not significantly augment diagnostic reasoning
The use of GPT-4 did not necessarily enhance clinicians' diagnostic reasoning performance compared to those relying solely on conventional clinical resources. Continue Reading
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04 Nov 2024
How generative AI in healthcare is helping cut admin burden
Over 90% of healthcare workers feel optimistic about the promise of generative AI in healthcare to alleviate administrative burdens, according to a new survey. Continue Reading
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31 Oct 2024
AI-enabled wearable helps detect medication errors
A wearable, deep learning-driven camera could help healthcare providers proactively identify potential errors prior to medication delivery with 99% accuracy. Continue Reading
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28 Oct 2024
Can AI-driven care coordination software improve workflows?
By integrating an AI platform across dozens of hospitals and outpatient settings, University Hospitals aims to streamline care coordination and improve outcomes. Continue Reading
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23 Oct 2024
LLMs show potential for hospital quality measure reporting
Large language models can process Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Management Bundle quality measures in agreement with manual reporting in 90% of cases. Continue Reading
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17 Oct 2024
Google: Providers see GenAI's potential for administrative tasks
A new report from Google Cloud and The Harris Poll revealed that 89% of providers and 98% of payers have a positive view of GenAI use to streamline administrative tasks. Continue Reading
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15 Oct 2024
Building a generative AI-ready healthcare workforce
Generative AI is taking various U.S. industries by storm, but how can healthcare organizations ensure that their workers are properly prepared for the technology's proliferation? Continue Reading
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11 Oct 2024
Microsoft expands healthcare AI, analytics capabilities
New Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare offerings will focus on multimodal foundation models, data integration, healthcare agent services and nursing workflow improvements. Continue Reading
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07 Oct 2024
5 pitfalls to avoid when using GenAI for patient engagement
Issues like algorithmic bias and deepening the digital divide are potential pitfalls to using GenAI for patient engagement. Continue Reading
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03 Oct 2024
Deep learning predicts disease risk from 3D medical images
The SLice Integration by Vision Transformer model accurately predicts disease risk factors by analyzing scans across various volumetric medical imaging modalities. Continue Reading
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02 Oct 2024
Patients see potential benefits of AI in mental healthcare
Just under half of a U.S. survey cohort reported seeing AI as beneficial for mental healthcare, but incorrect diagnoses and lack of interaction with providers are major concerns. Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2024
What is a decision tree in machine learning?
A decision tree is a flow chart created by a computer algorithm to make decisions or numeric predictions based on information in a digital data set. Continue Reading
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20 Sep 2024
Bringing artificial intelligence into prior authorization processes
Artificial intelligence could play a major role in reducing providers' documentation and substantiation burdens during the prior authorization process. Continue Reading
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18 Sep 2024
LEAP in Health IT awards focus on AI and behavioral health
HHS has awarded $2 million in LEAP in Health IT grants to Columbia University and OHSU to advance the accuracy of AI algorithms and behavioral health IT adoption. Continue Reading
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16 Sep 2024
GenAI displays no racial, sex bias in opioid treatment plans
Large language models demonstrated no race- or sex-based differences in opioid treatment recommendations, which could help reduce bias and improve health equity. Continue Reading
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12 Sep 2024
Deep learning tool could improve brain pressure monitoring
A deep learning tool that uses routinely collected data could provide a noninvasive method for clinicians to monitor intracranial hypertension in intensive care patients. Continue Reading
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11 Sep 2024
AI foundation model predicts cancer diagnosis, prognosis
A ChatGPT-like AI model could inform precision medicine efforts across 19 cancer subtypes by analyzing histopathology images and predicting the molecular profile of tumors. Continue Reading
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09 Sep 2024
Half of clinicians report positive ambient AI experience
About half of clinicians using an ambient AI documentation tool in a clinical trial reported positive outcomes, but some found no time-saving benefits or improved EHR experience. Continue Reading
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09 Sep 2024
How healthcare organizations can prioritize AI governance
As artificial intelligence continues to gain traction in healthcare, health systems and other stakeholders must work on building effective AI governance programs. Continue Reading
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09 Sep 2024
What is machine learning bias (AI bias)?
Machine learning bias, also known as 'algorithm bias' or 'AI bias,' is a phenomenon that occurs when an algorithm produces results that are systemically prejudiced due to erroneous assumptions in the machine learning (ML) process. Continue Reading
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06 Sep 2024
8 jobs that AI can't replace and why
AI is sparking concerns of job displacement among workers. While some roles might be at risk of automation, jobs requiring human empathy are unlikely to be replaced by AI. Continue Reading
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05 Sep 2024
Report: AI could provide 'competitive edge' in healthcare
New report reveals that 96% of healthcare technology leaders see AI as providing a potential competitive advantage, but implementation challenges remain. Continue Reading
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03 Sep 2024
How can AI help predict, automate hospital discharge?
When planning discharge, care teams must use their best judgment and available data to inform decision-making. Can artificial intelligence tools streamline this process? Continue Reading
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29 Aug 2024
Ultrasound AI allows non-experts to estimate gestational age
A low-cost, AI-enabled ultrasound device has shown promise in helping healthcare workers estimate gestational age on par with expert sonographers. Continue Reading
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27 Aug 2024
Exploring Mayo Clinic's digital health innovation platform
Mayo Clinic Platform_Solutions Studio uses a federated 'data behind glass' approach to help developers and health systems build robust, secure digital health solutions. Continue Reading
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26 Aug 2024
What is unsupervised learning?
Unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning (ML) technique that uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to identify patterns in data sets that are neither classified nor labeled. Continue Reading
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26 Aug 2024
Survey: AI most exciting emerging technology in healthcare
Artificial intelligence has been named one of the most exciting emerging technologies by health system leaders, who see its potential to improve care and administration. Continue Reading
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23 Aug 2024
How ambient AI can improve the patient-provider relationship
Ambient AI technology is helping Ochsner Health improve patient-provider relationships by allowing clinicians to spend consultation time looking at their patients rather than a computer screen. Continue Reading
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22 Aug 2024
Americans see value in healthcare AI, but concerns remain
A national survey revealed that while many Americans are comfortable with artificial intelligence in healthcare, some have reservations about data privacy and security. Continue Reading
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20 Aug 2024
Public still leery of AI chatbots in healthcare, misinformation
Although more than half of patients don't trust AI chatbots in healthcare, just under a fifth use the tools regularly. Continue Reading
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14 Aug 2024
Anatomy-aware GenAI shows promise in medical imaging
An anatomy-aware generative AI tool could improve the synthesis of high-quality computed tomography images for research and clinical applications. Continue Reading
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09 Aug 2024
The promise and perils of GenAI in clinical documentation
Generative AI in clinical documentation can ease EHR burdens and enhance patient communication, but issues with accuracy necessitate careful provider review. Continue Reading
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07 Aug 2024
Framework to help detect healthcare AI hallucinations
New research demonstrates the potential of an approach to address faithfulness hallucinations in artificial intelligence-generated medical summaries. Continue Reading
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05 Aug 2024
How AI in nursing could alleviate documentation burden
As nurses face increasing levels of burnout, researchers are exploring how large language models could streamline clinical documentation and care planning. Continue Reading
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01 Aug 2024
ChatGPT shows potential for clinical knowledge review
ChatGPT could help clinicians more effectively review medical literature by prioritizing and summarizing research abstracts from journals related to their specialties. Continue Reading
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30 Jul 2024
Paid medical chatbots better at health literacy than free ones
Both paid and free medical chatbots offer middling health literacy, but asking for a lower reading level might help. Continue Reading
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29 Jul 2024
NIH study reveals pitfalls of AI in clinical decision-making
GPT-4V scored highly on the 'New England Journal of Medicine's' Image Challenge, but made mistakes when tasked with explaining its reasoning and describing medical images. Continue Reading
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25 Jul 2024
HHS reorganizes for coordination across health data policy
The HHS reorganization aims to improve coordination for strategy and policy across health data, cybersecurity, AI and technology as digital health transformation progresses. Continue Reading
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24 Jul 2024
Will AI hinder digital transformation in healthcare?
Healthcare digitalization requires integrating new technologies and processes to meet patients' evolving needs, but the process is rife with challenges. Continue Reading
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22 Jul 2024
ChatGPT demonstrates promise for digital pathology
A private, domain-specific version of ChatGPT can accurately respond to digital pathology questions and help clinicians utilize complex histopathology software. Continue Reading
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18 Jul 2024
Machine learning flags nAMD drug-related eye inflammation
A machine learning tool could bolster early detection of vision-threatening inflammation associated with drugs used to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Continue Reading
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15 Jul 2024
Fostering health AI development with confidential computing
Can confidential computing streamline clinical algorithm development by providing a secure collaborative environment for data stewards and AI developers? Continue Reading
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24 Jun 2024
Deep learning links lung shape differences and COVID-19 severity
A 3D residual convolutional network analysis revealed that COVID-19 patients experienced significant deformities to the mediastinal and basal surfaces of the lungs. Continue Reading
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17 Jun 2024
Investigating electronic phenotyping’s role in clinical analytics
Electronic phenotyping has significant potential to drive EHR-based data mining and clinical research, but patient privacy remains a major concern. Continue Reading
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13 Jun 2024
Machine learning tool accurately predicts spine surgery outcomes
A machine learning approach using wearable data, EHRs and ecological momentary assessment information outperformed existing spine surgery outcome prediction tools. Continue Reading
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12 Jun 2024
Synthetic tumor data enhances training for cancer detection AI
An artificial intelligence model trained solely on synthetic liver tumor data performed on par with models trained using images of real tumors. Continue Reading
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11 Jun 2024
Interpretable machine learning helps clinicians classify EEG anomalies
An interpretable machine learning model improved clinicians’ performance in reading electroencephalography charts, boosting accuracy from 47% to 71%. Continue Reading
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07 Jun 2024
NIH funds validation of graft-versus-host disease assessment AI
A $4.2 million grant will support the validation of an artificial intelligence tool to measure skin changes in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease. Continue Reading
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06 Jun 2024
Deloitte: healthcare consumers’ trust in generative AI has room to grow
Deloitte’s 2024 consumer healthcare survey found that adoption of GenAI for health reasons has progressed little in the last year due to consumers’ distrust. Continue Reading
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05 Jun 2024
Weighing the pros and cons of synthetic healthcare data use
Synthetic data is touted as a privacy-preserving alternative to the use of real-world patient information in healthcare analytics. Continue Reading
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03 Jun 2024
Chatbots show promise in simplifying pathology reports for patients
Bard and GPT-4 enhanced the readability of pathology reports while maintaining high medical accuracy, which could help explain findings to patients. Continue Reading
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31 May 2024
MRI-based machine learning approach predicts breast cancer metastasis
A convolutional neural network successfully flagged 95% of breast cancer patients with axillary metastasis, demonstrating potential to reduce unnecessary biopsies. Continue Reading
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30 May 2024
Generative AI predicts hospital admissions from ED visits
GPT-4 outperformed traditional machine learning models when tasked with forecasting which emergency room patients may need to be admitted to the hospital. Continue Reading
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28 May 2024
AASM highlights opportunities, weaknesses of AI in sleep medicine
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recently examined the potential and challenges of integrating artificial intelligence in clinical care. Continue Reading
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28 May 2024
Overcoming struggles to define algorithmic fairness in healthcare
Medical ethicists posit that there is no one-size-fits-all definition of fairness for healthcare AI, necessitating a more nuanced, collaborative approach. Continue Reading
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23 May 2024
Machine learning predicts risk of OUD treatment discontinuation
New machine learning framework reveals that almost 15% of opioid use disorder patients discontinued recommended buprenorphine treatment prematurely. Continue Reading
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22 May 2024
Exploring generative artificial intelligence in healthcare
As the hype around generative AI continues, healthcare stakeholders must balance the technology’s promise and pitfalls. Continue Reading
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20 May 2024
Using large language models to protect pediatric health information
Generative AI, such as large language models, may help tackle privacy and security concerns that can lead to pediatric data disclosures. Continue Reading