Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks.

Healthcare AI today: Senate arguments, aging infrastructure, ‘elastic’ jobs, more
States’ rights or federal power? Senate Republicans are of two minds on AI regulation in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
That’s no mere hospital—it’s a ‘complex adaptive system.’ Use GenAI accordingly.
From the perspective of management science, healthcare is a complex adaptive system marked by intricate feedback loops and overlapping interdependencies. As such, the sector demands caution by those introducing large-language AI into its tangled webs.
First AI-enabled POCUS app for detecting pleural effusion and atelectasis earns FDA clearance
The apps are embedded into the Exo Iris transducer, which can be plugged directly into a smartphone, utilized anywhere and without the internet.
Startup seeking to simplify medical imaging referrals raises $101M
Tennr uses an “enterprise orchestration engine” and series of specialized language models, trained on the nuances of processing documentation against payer criteria.
AI model gets helpful heart assessments out of nongated CT scans
"Using AI for tasks like CAC detection can help shift medicine from a reactive approach to the proactive prevention of disease," one researcher said.

New $100M kid on the minimally invasive block

A Silicon Valley maker of surgical robots is launching a venture capital arm to invest in future leaders of minimally invasive care. Inaugural ante: $100 million.

What’s that you say? AI is in hearing aids—and AR isn’t far behind

A hearing aid manufacturer founded in the 1950s has introduced what it says is the first use of AI to optimize auditory assistance for the hearing impaired in real time.

'Best available test': Advanced PET boosts disease-free survival in patients with prostate cancer

The findings were presented virtually at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's Annual Meeting.

Smartphone app speeds up stroke diagnosis, triaging patients to CT scans quicker

The tool does so by analyzing a patient’s speech patterns and facial movements and can make a call with the accuracy of an ER doc, researchers claim.

New PET radiotracer moves to in-human trials after accurately detecting brain injuries

In one case, the tracer detected a cerebral abnormality that occurred three years prior to imaging, according to Massachusetts General Hospital researchers.

In Tar Heel country, electronic ‘greeters’ use AI to monitor mask wearing, social distancing

If you’re failing to keep social distance, wear a mask and wear it properly, a red X lights up as a reminder. If you’re doing things right, it’s a green check mark affirming your compliance.

Massive global effort underway using advanced imaging data for new traumatic brain injury treatments

The ENIGMA project is made up of 170 experts from 13 countries.

Radiologists who follow AI-based recommendations may be safer from malpractice liability than they think

Legal experts at Georgetown University and ETH Zurich’s Center for Law & Economics recently shared their experimental study in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Artificial Intelligence

Healthcare AI today: Senate arguments, aging infrastructure, ‘elastic’ jobs, more

That’s no mere hospital—it’s a ‘complex adaptive system.’ Use GenAI accordingly.

First AI-enabled POCUS app for detecting pleural effusion and atelectasis earns FDA clearance

Startup seeking to simplify medical imaging referrals raises $101M

AI model gets helpful heart assessments out of nongated CT scans