AI In Healthcare

Thermo Fisher Machine Learning Deal to Boost Clinical Trials

February 8, 2022 - Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced a partnership with a life science artificial intelligence company, Medidata Acorn AI, that aims to enhance clinical trials for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The collaboration between the PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher and Medidata was to develop PPD TrueCast. This enterprise...

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Partners to Furnish Health IT Infrastructure for AI Alliance

by Fred Donovan

Partners HealthCare will contribute its health IT infrastructure, data, and clinical expertise to a partnership with Fujifilm SonoSite to develop AI-powered portable ultrasound devices for emergency...

PHDA Employs AWS Cloud Computing to Enable Healthcare AI Research

by Fred Donovan

The Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) is teaming with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use its cloud computing services to improve patient care by enabling healthcare AI research.   The PHDA...

St. Luke’s Develops AI-Powered X-Ray System to Detect Collapsed Lung

by Fred Donovan

St. Luke's University Health Network radiologist Karl Yaeger, MD, and his colleagues have developed the industry’s first x-ray system with an embedded AI algorithm to quickly detect a...

NIH Awards SBIR Grant for Algorithm to Fight Hospital Infections

by Fred Donovan

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for development of an algorithm to automate the process of detecting hospital infection...

Providence St. Joseph Health to Deploy Cloud-Based Health IT with AI

by Fred Donovan

Providence St. Joseph Health is developing and deploying cloud-based health IT that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the clinical and care environment at the Renton, WA-based health...

Just One in Five Consumers Trust AI-Generated Healthcare Advice

by Fred Donovan

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...

MassChallenge Awards $220K To Five Digital Health Startups

by Fred Donovan

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,...

Four Institutions Join Free Healthcare AI Pilot for Radiologists

by Fred Donovan

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...

White House Wants Transparency in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence

by Fred Donovan

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...

Healthcare Technology Adoption Is a Top Concern of Leaders

by Fred Donovan

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...

Facial Recognition Helps Predict When ICU Patients Are At Risk

by Fred Donovan

Japanese researchers have successfully incorporated facial recognition technology into an automated system that can predict when intensive care unit (ICU) patients are at high risk of unsafe behavior,...

Boston Children’s Develops AI System to Enhance Medical Imaging

by Fred Donovan

Boston Children’s Hospital is developing an AI system to analyze medical imaging for pediatric patients, the Boston Business Journal (BBJ) reported. The hospital is partnering with GE Healthcare...

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