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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What limits AI as it continues ‘significantly altering the fundamental means of biological discovery?’

Could AI help produce a unifying concept of human disease—one that might help prevent, mitigate or cure everything from birth defects and rare cancers to immune disorders and neurological defects?

October 26, 2021
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AI scores 1 against a knee injury common among athletes

The AI development team was guided by a sports-medicine specialist dubbed “the go-to orthopedic surgeon for many of the greatest athletes on the planet.”

October 22, 2021
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Barrett’s esophagus on AI’s radar

More than one-quarter of the U.S. adult population has Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, or GERD, and the condition saddles as many as 20% of its sufferers with Barrett’s esophagus. The latter is a serious risk factor for esophageal cancer.

October 21, 2021
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AI predicts tumor metastasis from colon to lymph nodes

A convolutional neural network has proven adept at predicting the spread of colorectal cancer to the lymph nodes using automated analysis of histology slides.

October 15, 2021
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Mobile self-test can serve as early-warning system for Alzheimer’s

Harvard researchers have demonstrated a web-based program that allows cognitively normal individuals to screen themselves, unsupervised, for the type of memory decline that may signal encroaching Alzheimer’s disease.

October 8, 2021
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AI-generated ‘digital twins’ help head off silently approaching sickness

Cambridge University researchers propose using the technique to predict individuals’ health issues over time and intervene early with personalized preventive care.

October 6, 2021
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COVID-19 smartphone diagnostics so close yet so far

Is the world ready for AI-equipped smartphones that can reliably identify or rule out COVID-19 based on audio data from coughing and speaking?

October 6, 2021
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AI right at home in cancer research, but associated clinical improvements slow to show

In cancer research settings, AI has shown strong capabilities for predicting risk, recurrence and survivability over the past 10-plus years. Yet real-world cancer mortality remains largely unchanged to the present day. Why is that?

October 5, 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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