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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AI primed to play crucial role in the war on opioid addiction

Three machine learning algorithms have identified patients likely to suffer extreme pain following surgery with about 80% accuracy each.

October 6, 2020

AI appears headed for the endoscopy suite

Nearly 90% of U.S. gastroenterologists are open to using AI for help performing high quality colonoscopies. And of these, 85% believe that computer-assisted polyp detection (CADe) stands to improve their endoscopic performance.

October 6, 2020
COVID Nightmare

AI links COVID-19 to poor sleep, bad dreams

The COVID-19 pandemic is a bad dream in the truest sense of the word—and AI helps to prove it, a team of researchers assert in a study published online Oct. 1 in Frontiers in Psychology.

October 1, 2020
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AI could correct male bias in drug trials

Researchers at Columbia University have developed a machine learning algorithm that identifies and predicts gender-based differences in adverse reactions to drugs. 

October 1, 2020

FDA clears AI lung diagnostics

A supplier of healthcare software in the respiratory care space has received the FDA’s blessing to market deep learning elements newly added to an existing product.

September 24, 2020
Regina Barzilay

AI pioneer wins $1M prize for work in breast imaging, drug discovery

The work of Regina Barzilay, PhD, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, has focused on breast imaging, the development of new antibiotics and much more. 

September 24, 2020
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Online database of FDA-approved AI debuts

A small but mighty research outfit based in Hungary has compiled a user-friendly database of medical technologies anchored in AI and approved by the FDA.

September 22, 2020
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Sleep apnea trackable by smartphone with AI assistance

The novel AI-aided app can run on both Apple and Android operating systems and only needs to be placed near the would-be sleeper—a familiar nightstand, shelf or end table will do—at bedtime.

September 18, 2020

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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