Artificial Intelligence

Cincinnati Children’s Tests AI-Based Clinical Trials Screening Tool

by Fred Donovan

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center successfully tested the integration of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered clinical trials screening system into the clinical workflow at a busy...

VA Needs Healthcare IT Infrastructure to Utilize Health Data

by Fred Donovan

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) needs to build healthcare IT infrastructure that can utilize increasingly large amounts of health data on veterans, observed Gil Alterovitz, who was recently...

Hospital Boards Lack Healthcare IT Expertise, Rely on Consultants

by Fred Donovan

A disturbing 91 percent of hospital boards rely entirely on consultants for healthcare IT strategy and advice, rather than on the healthcare tech expertise of trustees, a poll of 494 C-suite hospital...

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...

Investors Pay $4.2B for Digital Health Startups in 2019 First Half

by Fred Donovan

Investments in digital health startups totaled $4.2 billion across 180 deals in the first half of 2019, putting the market on track to reach $8.4 billion this year, according to the latest data from...

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...

Rensselaer Researchers Use Blockchain to Boost Medical Image Sharing

by Fred Donovan

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...

Machine Learning Could Boost Low-Dose CT Scan Performance

by Fred Donovan

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...

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...

Healthcare Execs Say Cloud Computing, Other Tech Speeding Innovation

by Fred Donovan

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...

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,...

UCLA Deploys Cloud Computing for Medical Research, Precision Medicine

by Fred Donovan

UCLA Health is deploying cloud computing to better harness healthcare data for medical research and enable precision medicine. The academic medical center is using Microsoft Azure cloud services to...

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...

Google Selects 6 Health AI Projects for Its Impact Challenge

by Fred Donovan

Google has selected 20 winners for its AI Impact Challenge, including six health AI projects. Winners receive funding from a $25 million pool as well as coaching from Google AI experts and consulting...

Information Explosion Makes Data Tracking in Healthcare Essential

by Fred Donovan

Data tracking has become increasingly important with the explosion of information in the healthcare environment. The benefits of tracking data are synchronizing large data sets generated by...