Only 20 percent of consumers would trust AI-generated advice for healthcare, according to survey 2,048 U.S. adults by The Harris Poll on behalf of Invoca.
There is a generation gap when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare. Twenty-two percent of 18- to 34-year-olds would trust AI-generated advice for healthcare, compared...
Human-machine interface (HMI) technology, healthcare robotics, and brain stimulation are being used by Swiss researchers to help rehabilitate stroke patients.
When used together and personalized for the individual patient, these technologies can improve severe chronic stroke recovery, according to a paper recently published in the journal...
MassChallenge, a network of zero-equity startup accelerators, has awarded $220,000 in cash to five digital health startups as part of its HealthTech accelerator program.
To select the winners, MassChallenge consulted with healthcare industry experts to evaluate the startups based on their ability to demonstrate traction, growth, and impact. The...
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Emory University, the University of Washington, and the University of California San Francisco have joined a pilot study of a free healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) software platform for radiologists.
The platform, called ACR AI-LAB, is designed to help American College of Radiology (ACR) members and...
Under legislation signed June 24 by President Trump, HHS is directed to work with other public health officials and private sector entities to identify the critical healthcare infrastructure needed to be maintained through an emergency or disaster.
The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2019, among other...
The White House is calling for more transparency and “explainability” in healthcare artificial intelligence.
Currently many algorithms are opaque to users, which creates problems for doctors, who need transparency to justify their diagnoses or treatment of patients.
This is one argument made by the National Artificial Intelligence...
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are developing a blockchain-based information system for medical image sharing using IBM Hyperledger.
The blockchain technology will enable a data library of medical images for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) applications to improve image processing, analysis, reconstruction, and...
The Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub, set up last year to improve patient care and provider experience by using cutting-edge health technology, has added four major healthcare industry partners to its efforts.
Konica Minolta Healthcare, Novo Nordisk, Philips, and Stryker have joined the hub’s stable of strategic partners. Areas of focus for...
Close to two-thirds of hospitals and health systems said they plan to increase investment in health IT capabilities to enhance their payer collaboration and support increasing levels of risk.
Fifty-seven percent of 170 hospitals and health system senior finance executives surveyed by the Healthcare Financial Management Association said that they...
Nine health IT programs implemented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) were recognized during the FedHealthIT Innovation Awards held June 12 in Washington, DC.
The nine VA health IT programs are:
Solor uses off-the-shelf software to convert complex language into user-friendly terminologies. This represents a shift in how software...
A majority of C-suite executives identified healthcare innovation as the best response to industry disruption, according to the annual healthcare CEO survey by the Advisory Board.
The interest in innovation shows that health organizations are seeing intensifying pressures and competition from new entrants into the healthcare market, particularly...
A bipartisan Senate bill introduced this week would invest $100 million per year in modernizing the public health IT infrastructure in the United States.
The Saving Lives Through Better Data Act, introduced by Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and Angus King (I-ME), would expand public health data sharing among agencies and boost...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory took a look at the underlying health IT infrastructure when the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was having trouble with thousands of automatic cancellations of diagnostic test orders at VA hospitals.
As reported by USA Today, patients were showing up for diagnostic tests and finding out that the test...
Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that electronic inhaler monitoring combined with a disease management program resulted in fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients.
Between October 2016 and May 2017, 39 patients who had COPD and had at least one hospitalization or emergency...
Machine learning could significantly improve low-dose computed tomography (CT) scanning by reducing patient exposure and improving image quality, according to research by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School.
Low-dose CT imaging techniques have been used recently to help alleviate patient...
Arizona Care Network (ACN) patients with type 2 diabetes will be able to use a healthcare blockchain network to manage their diabetes and optimize care with their physicians and families.
The Diabetes Care Administration Network, being launched by the end of this year, will use healthcare blockchain to improve care for 25,000 ACN diabetes...
Healthcare technology implementation and adoption is a top concern of 100 healthcare leaders surveyed by Rabin Research Company on behalf of international law firm Proskauer.
Healthcare technology implementation and adoption only ranked behind cutting operating costs, protecting patient privacy and data, and recruiting and retaining top talent as...
The health IT infrastructure needs to be fully mapped and tested to ensure it can support the new electronic health record (EHR) system the Department of Defense (DoD) is implementing, testified Jon Scholl, president of Leidos Health Group.
Leidos is the contractor overseeing the DoD’s $5.5 billion EHR modernization known as MHS GENESIS,...
Almost all the healthcare executives surveyed by Accenture said that the pace of innovation in their organization has accelerated over the past three years due to emerging technologies, such cloud computing, data analytics, social media, and mobility.
A full 80 percent of respondents agreed that these technologies have moved beyond adoption silos...
While not scheduled for full implementation until 2023, the Department of Defense's (DoD) new Cerner electronic health record, MHS GENESIS, is already improving the sharing of medical images between military treatment facilities.
Two military medical facilities that implemented MHS GENESIS in the first phase are Naval Hospital...
