Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
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‘Huge for patients’: AI forecasts new atrial fibrillation, stroke risk

Cardiology experts utilized more than 1.5 million ECGs performed over 35 years to develop their tool.

November 15, 2021
Hypertension patients measured their blood pressure less frequently during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research published in Hypertension. In addition, when those patients did measure their blood pressure, the readings were less healthy than they had been before the pandemic.

AI model diagnoses COVID-19 in routine blood tests with impressive accuracy

“With new mutations of the virus with higher transmission rates, it is imperative to diagnose positive cases as quickly and accurately as possible,” researchers wrote. 

November 11, 2021
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Machine learning helps scientists predict patients’ response to antidepressants

Current trial-and-error approaches may force patients to suffer through severe depression for months, leading to loss of employment, marriage or life. 

November 9, 2021

AI system successfully IDs colorectal cancer in whole slide images

One specialist described the findings as "revolutionary," noting that the system could help save health systems significant money. 

November 9, 2021
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AI guides care of slow-healing wounds

Industry researchers challenged a machine learning model to predict failure to heal at four, eight and 12 weeks after initial treatment.

November 1, 2021
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AI predicts gathering disease with a deep dive into evolutionary genetics

Researchers have used unsupervised machine learning to predict disease-causing properties in more than 36 million genetic variants across more than 3,200 disease-related genes.

October 29, 2021
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Opioid overdoses more readily preventable with ensemble learning

The model’s developers suggest algorithmic prognoses could be aggregated to guide overdose prevention at the local, county and regional levels.

October 28, 2021
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AI exposes tactics, routes taken by antibiotic-resistant infections

New research shows horizontal gene transfer is predictable in bacteria by machine learning, a development that could lead to better weapons in the war against E. coli and other bacterial assailants that collaborate to conquer pharmacologic first responders.  

October 27, 2021

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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