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Public health

Hackathon sparks digital, AI solutions to improve health care

Innovative ideas for health care challenges were developed at a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health hackathon using digital health and AI. [ more ]

Axios

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AI health care reality check: efficiency, not revolution

Even though AI may not fundamentally reshape the US healthcare system in the near future, there is consensus that it has the potential to greatly enhance care quality and reduce costs.

Resistance to change in the heavily regulated and financially lucrative healthcare system may slow down the adoption of AI, but technologies that increase revenue, boost productivity, and improve healthcare workers' quality of life are likely to be integrated into the system. [ more ]

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Nextgov.com

2 days ago

VA's AI model to prevent suicides is a 'game changer,' official says

The use of AI and predictive analytics in identifying veterans at risk of suicide has been a 'game changer' for the Department of Veterans Affairs. [ more ]

Acm

A Healthy Dose of AI

AI-powered devices are enhancing diagnostic precision and enabling predictive analytics in healthcare.

Addressing structural inequities in healthcare is crucial when implementing AI-powered devices. [ more ]

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AI-Related Technology Expected to See a Massive CAGR of 43%

AI in healthcare is projected to grow at a CAGR of 43.52% from 2024 to 2032, promising enhanced efficiency and patient outcomes.

AI leverages algorithms for tasks like analyzing medical images, predicting risks, and transforming clinical notes, improving diagnostic accuracy and patient care. [ more ]

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healthcare-technology

Kqed

3 weeks ago

Nurses Warn Patient Safety at Risk as AI Use Spreads in Health Care | KQED

Kaiser Permanente implements AI cautiously to aid healthcare processes while prioritizing patient safety and human involvement. [ more ]

www.bostonherald.com

As AI eye exams prove their worth, lessons for future tech emerge

AI-based technology improves diabetic retinopathy screening, offering quick and convenient eye exams with immediate results and significant benefits for patients and providers. [ more ]

Improving Patient Outcomes with Predictive Analytics: A Revolution in Healthcare

AI transforming healthcare with predictive analytics

Importance of AI in healthcare startups [ more ]

Alleywatch

Startup companies

Fabric Raises $60M for its AI Platform that Allows Healthcare Providers to Focus on Providing Patient Care by Streamlining Workflows

Long wait times in emergency rooms affect care quality

Fabric streamlines patient care process with AI and automation [ more ]

Nextgov.com

Lawmakers urge VA to tread carefully with AI

VA is using AI to enhance clinical experience for veterans

Lawmakers stress importance of careful adoption of emerging technologies in healthcare [ more ]

Futurism

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Regulators Alarmed by Doctors Already Using AI to Diagnose Patients

Doctors are already using unregulated AI tools for diagnosing patients, posing risks.

Regulation of AI in medical diagnosis is essential but challenging due to constant changes and lack of transparency. [ more ]

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Nature

Google AI could soon use a person's cough to diagnose disease

Machine-learning system trained on human audio clips for detecting COVID-19 and tuberculosis.

Use of massive data sets like Health Acoustic Representations (HeAR) enables AI fine-tuning for multiple health tasks. [ more ]

Stanford HAI

Peering into the Black Box of AI Medical Programs

Doctors need to trust AI to detect diseases

Understanding AI's internal reasoning is crucial [ more ]

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regulation

Business Insider

Healthcare startups are rushing to sell AI to hospital systems. But a new survey suggests many simply aren't ready for it.

Healthcare industry lacks AI regulation

Majority of health systems have no policies for AI usage [ more ]

The Economist

The AI doctor will see you...eventually

AI in healthcare can lead to better diagnoses, personalized patient support, and faster drug discovery.

The integration of AI in healthcare has been slow due to high evidentiary barriers, data fragmentation, regulation, and incentives. [ more ]

News Center

How AI improves physician and nurse collaboration

Predictive models in hospitals use AI to monitor patients' data for health declines, triggering alerts for timely interventions and improving communication among care teams. [ more ]

Nature

Data science

Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to diagnose COVID-19 from chest X-rays, but research shows that the AI may be picking up on consistent differences in the backgrounds of the images rather than clinically relevant features.

Examples of AI misclassification in medical and other fields highlight the potential consequences of relying solely on AI for important decisions.

A review of 62 studies using AI to diagnose COVID-19 from chest X-rays or computed tomography scans found that none of the AI models were clinically useful. [ more ]

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RAISE Health Symposium

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Medicine

RAISE Health Symposium

The symposium will focus on AI's transformative potential in healthcare. [ more ]

www.marinij.com

1 day ago

Medicine

Forget ringing the button for the nurse. Patients now stay connected by wearing one

The BioButton device at Houston Methodist Hospital utilizes AI to monitor patient vital signs, improving care and reducing nurses' workload. [ more ]

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Medicine

Stanford Health Care Upgrading Patient Care with AI-Powered DAX Copilot App

AI-powered DAX Copilot enhances clinical documentation process.

Ambient voice recognition technology streamlines note-taking, reducing clinician burden. [ more ]

TechCrunch

1 week ago

European startups

How Y Combinator's founder-matching service helped medical records AI startup Hona land $3M | TechCrunch

Y Combinator's online founder-matching tool is highly valuable and influential in creating successful startups. [ more ]

TNW | Future-Of-Work

2 weeks ago

AI-powered 'deep medicine' could transform healthcare in the NHS

NHS faces time constraints leading to shallow medicine practices, highlighting the need for deep medicine revolution. [ more ]

News

2 weeks ago

How artificial intelligence might help health care-or harm it

AI in healthcare has the potential to greatly benefit individuals by providing access to medical expertise and speeding up diagnoses, but caution is necessary to prevent bias and misinformation. [ more ]

Nature

AI's keen diagnostic eye

Supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the availability of iodinated contrast dyes for medical imaging in the United States. [ more ]

The Mercury News

As AI eye exams prove their worth, lessons for future tech emerge

AI-based retinal camera technology streamlines diabetic retinopathy screening, providing quick and easy exams with immediate results and significant benefits for patients and providers. [ more ]

Theregister

Bring on the AI nurses, says process automation firm founder

AI integration in healthcare is being explored to enhance patient experience and alleviate staffing issues.

Starting with low-risk areas like patient-facing chats can help introduce AI into healthcare settings. [ more ]

The Business & Financial Times

Complement or replacementThe evolving role of AI in the global health workforce

AI can complement healthcare professionals without replacing them.

AI technologies in healthcare can enhance efficiency and outcomes through diagnostic support. [ more ]

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Wellness

Is That A.I. Mammogram Worth the Cost?

AI models can enhance mammogram readings by identifying patterns that humans might miss, potentially improving cancer detection accuracy.

There are concerns about the effectiveness of AI tools in various patient populations and whether they can significantly impact breast cancer survival rates. [ more ]

TechCrunch

Venture

EarliTec Diagnostics raises $21.5M to help diagnose autism earlier | TechCrunch

One in 36 children in the U.S. has autism, and early diagnosis can significantly impact developmental outcomes.

EarliTec Diagnostics utilizes AI to diagnose autism in children as young as 16 months, with a quick 12-minute test. [ more ]

TechCrunch

Business intelligence

Century Health, now with $2M, taps AI to give pharma access to good patient data | TechCrunch

AI can uncover hidden signals in healthcare data, aiding in drug discovery.

Startups like Century Health are leveraging AI to analyze clinical data for new drug applications. [ more ]

BBC News

NHS AI test spots tiny cancers missed by doctors

AI tool Mia identified hidden breast cancer in 11 patients missed by human doctors.

Early detection of small cancerous signs by AI tool like Mia can lead to less invasive treatments and better survival rates. [ more ]

Futurism

Nvidia Announces AI-Powered "Agents" to Replace Nurses in Hospitals

Hippocratic AI partners with Nvidia to replace nurses with AI 'agents' at a cheap hourly rate below the US minimum wage.

AI agents handle low-risk, patient-facing tasks like video call interactions, claimed to outperform human counterparts in various areas. [ more ]

ScienceDaily

AI can now detect COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images

AI can detect COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images, aiding rapid diagnosis.

AI tools have the potential to develop wearables for monitoring lung conditions and other diseases. [ more ]

www.independent.co.uk

AI tool that predicts side-effect risk in breast cancer patients to be trialled

AI can predict breast cancer treatment side effects.

AI may assist in personalized care for breast cancer patients. [ more ]

MedCity News

What Are the Biggest Misconceptions in the Mental Health Space? One Exec Weighs In

Mental health misconceptions include AI replacing clinicians and the connection between mental and physical health. [ more ]

Cbsnews

What the health care sector is selling to Wall Street: The "first trillion-dollar drug company is out there"

The 2024 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference attracted over 8,000 attendees, with a focus on AI and its potential impact on healthcare

Nvidia, a company that makes silicon chips, believes that AI will revolutionize drug-making and sees the potential for a trillion-dollar drug company [ more ]

Cbsnews

Can AI detect skin cancer? FDA authorizes use of device to help doctors identify suspicious moles.

The FDA has authorized an AI-powered medical device to help detect skin cancer

The AI device analyzes spectral data to provide real-time assessments of lesions [ more ]

www.fastcompany.com

Healthcare leaders and Microsoft team up to promote responsible' integration of AI and medicine

Responsible AI practices in healthcare are crucial for quality and safety

Establishment of TRAIN can ensure reliable and ethical application of AI in healthcare [ more ]

MedCity News

Mount Sinai CEO: Hospitals Will Start Seeing ROI from Their AI Investments in a Couple Years

AI in healthcare is still in an iterative stage with limited ROI.

Mount Sinai CEO Brendan Carr uses a grid model to organize healthcare AI thoughts. [ more ]

www.fastcompany.com

Surveys show Americans don't trust AI to give medical advice. Here's why that matters

AI acceptance vs. human involvement in healthcare is a complex issue.

Balancing AI benefits with societal concerns is a challenge in healthcare. [ more ]

MedCity News

These 3 Changes Must Occur for Hospitals to See Greater ROI from Their AI Investments

AI vendors must focus on addressing health systems' pain points for better ROI.

Health systems need a clear plan for IT integration when adopting AI technologies. [ more ]

Acm

A Healthy Dose of AI

AI transforming medical devices for enhanced diagnostics

The need to address structural inequities in healthcare alongside AI implementation [ more ]

Newsweek

AI could unlock secrets of the human body within decades

AI in healthcare is poised to revolutionize diagnostics by utilizing diverse data.

Current AI models in healthcare are limited but future multi-modal deep learning can predict illnesses accurately. [ more ]

Medium

John Snow Labs Sets New Standards in Healthcare AI with Record-Breaking Growth in 2023

John Snow Labs marks 2023 as its most successful year with 82 million downloads of its Spark NLP library and expansion in NLP Lab offerings.

The open-source Spark NLP library saw a significant increase in downloads following its 5.0 release, with enhanced support for ONNX models and improved text embedding calculation. [ more ]

Bloomberg

Privacy technologies

Bloomberg

1. AI is playing a crucial role in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, helping to analyze large amounts of data and develop solutions.

2. DeepMind's AlphaFold has shown promising results in predicting protein structures, a key step in understanding diseases and developing targeted therapies. [ more ]

Bloomberg

Privacy technologies

Bloomberg

Companies are using artificial intelligence (AI) to find new drugs and treatments for diseases.

Google's DeepMind is partnering with EMBL in Germany to use AI to identify proteins that cause diseases. [ more ]

www.theguardian.com

AI doctors and chatbot nurses? Labour must show the future of the NHS isn't so dystopian | Jeni Tennison

Labour hopes to use AI to rescue the NHS, but tech-utopian visions could reshape relationships with doctors and undermine NHS principles.

Both Labour and the Tory government see potential in AI to improve healthcare, but it is not a magic bullet for the NHS crisis. [ more ]

Medium

How Will AI Impact Various Industries in 2024?

AI is making significant strides in various industries, including healthcare and retail.

AI is improving patient care and outcomes through medical imaging analysis and AI-powered chatbots. [ more ]

www.fastcompany.com

Regulation is needed as AI paves the way for precision medicine

Regulation of AI in healthcare is important for universal acceptance and adoption.

Transparency in AI systems builds trust and inspires public confidence. [ more ]

Nature

Medical AI could be 'dangerous' for poorer nations, WHO warns

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the introduction of AI-based health-care technologies could be dangerous for people in lower-income countries.

WHO emphasizes the importance of including under-resourced populations in the training of AI models to avoid biased algorithms and inequities. [ more ]

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WHO Issues Warning For AI Developments In Healthcare

WHO raises concerns over the risks of using Large Multi-modal Models (LLMs) in healthcare AI.

Misuse and harm are inevitable with the use of LLMs due to biased outcomes and potential harm to patients. [ more ]

www.fastcompany.com

Investor Vinod Khosla: Our AI future is racing toward us faster than we think

AI has low probability of killing off the human race

China and Russia may use AI to interfere with US elections [ more ]

www.dw.com

Could AI transform healthcare in Africa? DW 12/01/2023

AI is being used in Africa to aid healthcare in areas such as managing datasets, reading genomes, analyzing medical images, and tracking COVID-19.

AI has been successful in disease diagnostics, including detecting tuberculosis in a high-security jail in Mozambique.

TB is a major healthcare issue globally, and AI technology can help reduce the global TB burden. [ more ]

The Conversation

Public health

Artificial intelligence is already in our hospitals. 5 questions people want answered

Consumers generally accept the potential value of AI in healthcare, but they still have serious concerns.

Consumers expect AI to work well and be as good as a human doctor at the tasks it performs.

Consumers worry about the responsibility and accountability if AI systems make incorrect decisions. [ more ]

Forbes

Will AI Improve Healthcare? Consumers Think So, New Surveys Show

53% of consumers believe generative AI could improve access to healthcare.

46% of consumers believe generative AI could make healthcare more affordable.

A majority of respondents who reported already using AI have high hopes for AI to improve healthcare. [ more ]

Axios

6 months ago

New partnership uses AI to put research at doctors' fingertips

Elsevier is partnering with a medical startup to develop ClinicalKey AI, a tool that gives doctors access to real-time medical research using generative AI.

The adoption of AI in healthcare has the potential to improve patient care, lower costs, reduce wait times, and increase access to medical information. [ more ]

Stanford HAI

Stanford HAI at Five: Pioneering the Future of Human-Centered AI

Stanford Medicine and Stanford HAI launched RAISE-Health to address ethical and safety issues in AI for health and medicine. [ more ]

Stanford HAI

Stanford HAI at Five: Pioneering the Future of Human-Centered AI

Stanford Medicine and Stanford HAI launched RAISE-Health to address ethical and safety issues in AI for health.

RAISE-Health aims to improve clinical outcomes, expedite research, and educate stakeholders on AI in healthcare. [ more ]

Stanford HAI

Stanford HAI at Five: Pioneering the Future of Human-Centered AI

Stanford Medicine and HAI launched RAISE-Health to address ethical and safety issues in AI healthcare.

RAISE-Health aims to enhance clinical care outcomes, expedite healthcare research, and educate stakeholders on AI advancements. [ more ]

Open Data Science - Your News Source for AI, Machine Learning & more

4 months ago