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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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
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Kidney stones relatively easy marks for AI-guided shockwaves

AI-aimed blasting of kidney stones from outside the body hit intended targets at a 75% clip in a proof-of-concept study, pulverizing conventional lithotripsy, which missed the mark almost half the time.

August 2, 2021
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COVID outcomes predictor suffers only slight sophomore slump

The model’s consistent overall accuracy demonstrates the reusability of existing COVID algorithms with recalibrations rather than fallbacks to square one, AI developers suggest.

July 30, 2021

Medicare improves racial healthcare inequities

Medicare is associated with reductions in racial and ethnic disparities in insurance coverage, access to care and self-reported health across the U.S., according to a new study published in JAMA.

 

July 28, 2021
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Bias-resistant AI advances personalized medicine in surgery

Researchers in Denmark and the U.S. have used deep neural networks to develop complementing models for predicting complications likely to arise in patients who’ve had surgeries of all kinds. 

July 28, 2021
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AI separates EHR wheat from weeds so clinicians can get on with patient care

When assisted by an AI tool designed to organize and display digitized patient referral records, gastroenterologists cut their time to answer relevant clinical questions by 2.3 minutes.

July 28, 2021
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Lonely older adults take more high-risk medications

Being lonely has some correlation to higher use in riskier medications among older adults, according to a new study.

 

July 26, 2021
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Scholarly futurists project healthcare AI’s trajectory across 3 time windows

Beginning around 2031, autonomous virtual assistants will deliver precision preventive medicine while networked provider orgs offer closely connected care via single, shared digital infrastructures.

July 26, 2021