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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5 ways AI stands to advance the state of burn care

AI has “remarkable potential” to improve diagnostic accuracy, care efficiency and workflow optimization in the surgical subspecialty of burn care.

August 25, 2021
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AI innovators lauded for sharing data, questioned for making it open-access

Along with a curated and annotated image dataset, the share includes code, network architecture and trained model weights.

August 20, 2021
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AI nudges clinicians at triage decisionmaking

Going head-to-head against a small group of clinicians in 50 care episodes, an AI-based smartphone app has equaled or bested the humans at triaging patients to the most appropriate site of care.

August 18, 2021
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Google Health, military collaborators set AI’s sights on breast cancer biomarkers

Researchers have used deep learning to assess three key biomarkers of existing breast cancers on routinely acquired histology slides. In the process, the team has advanced AI-based biomarker analysis for managing a range of cancers.

August 13, 2021
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Deep learning picks out sickened faces with 100% sensitivity

Researchers have piloted a deep learning algorithm that can recognize visual cues of sickness, also known as “clinical gestalt,” in facial photos.

August 12, 2021
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Healthcare AI may rise or fall on mitigation of opaque algorithms, semantic black boxes

When a black-box algorithm guides a physician’s diagnostic or therapeutic judgments, its intrinsic opaqueness can confound subsequent steps toward clinical safety and efficacy—and that’s just for starters. 

August 12, 2021
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AI saves pediatricians time, provides ‘more actionable guidance’ for asthma care

An AI tool for managing pediatric asthma shaved 7.8 minutes from the time pediatricians spent dealing with electronic health records in a randomized clinical trial conducted at the Mayo Clinic. 

August 3, 2021
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Patients draw pictures, AI classifies dementia

Deep learning can accurately distinguish dementia from mild cognitive impairment by looking at pictures of analog clocks as drawn by individuals thought to be affected.

August 2, 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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