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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Algorithm for managing diabetes 90% accurate at risk prediction

Machine learning can tease out which location-specific—or “area-level”—social determinants of health warrant close monitoring in people who have diabetes and are at risk of losing control over it.  

July 11, 2019
Climb

5 hills AI must take and hold to make it big in healthcare

If it’s to progress from capturing the public’s imagination to earning widespread clinical implementation, healthcare AI has a long road to travel.  

July 10, 2019
Lab Science

How MIT researchers used AI to improve drug approvals

Machine learning is being quickly adapted across the healthcare space to develop precision medicine, and it can also be leveraged to improve the development of new drug treatments and devices by improving the randomized clinical trial process, according to MIT researchers.

July 10, 2019

FDA Clears Koios DS™ Breast 2.0 to Assist Physicians with AI-Based Software

Koios Medical, Inc has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Koios DS (Decision Support) Breast 2.0, a new version of its machine learning based platform that assists physicians in the classification and diagnosis of breast cancer.

July 10, 2019
Nutrition

Machine learning identifies cancer-busting ‘hyperfoods’

Several plant-based foods readily available in supermarkets contain bioactive molecules that could not only prevent cancer but also treat it, accomplishing the latter with protective mechanisms similar to those activated by existing clinical therapies.  

July 9, 2019

Machine learning prediction model helps prevent spread of HIV

Researchers from Kaiser Permanente have developed a machine learning algorithm that could help prevent the spread of the HIV virus by finding at-risk patients and getting them on prevention medications. The researchers published the findings of their prediction model in The Lancet HIV.

 

July 8, 2019
Vaccination

Hopes high around the world for AI-designed flu vaccine

From the U.S. by way of the Land Down Under comes a “turbo-charged” flu vaccine created by AI.

July 8, 2019
Critical

AI powers early warning system for inpatients at risk of dying unexpectedly

It’s not unusual for hospitalized patients to take a sudden turn for the worse. A continuous inspection of electronic medical records by machine-learning algorithms can warn of impending trouble in real time, giving physicians a chance to proactively intervene.

July 8, 2019

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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