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.
Chatbot

VA deploys chatbot to guide vets through the pandemic 24/7

Working with a software consultancy that operates in 14 countries, the Department of Veterans Affairs has launched an interactive digital assistant to take U.S. veterans’ questions on COVID-19 and related concerns.

June 23, 2020
DNA puzzle

AI to combine with imaging and genomics in precision medicine project

A Canadian healthcare AI company is partnering with a DNA analytics outfit in California to explore how genomics can help advance the science of precision medicine.

June 22, 2020
Senior Smartphone

App detects worsening heart failure for personalized case management

Researchers have demonstrated a smartphone application that monitors known heart failure by listening to patients’ voices for 30 seconds a day.

June 22, 2020
Covid Lung

Startup’s AI product set for wide distribution via major imaging vendor

One of the biggest imaging OEMs is offering healthcare providers using its radiography systems a third party’s AI toolset for detecting lung abnormalities.

June 19, 2020
Pattern Recognition

Machine learning sees diseases obscured by info overload

Harvard researchers have demonstrated a way to cut through tangles of irrelevant information in electronic health records (EHRs) while applying machine learning to spot patterns indicative of specific disease markers.

June 19, 2020
Children in Africa

Portable AI-enabled device brings blood testing to underserved areas

The device can also test for malaria and already has CE Mark approval as well as regulatory greenlights in India and Ghana.

June 18, 2020
Lecture

Med student: Train us in AI now or watch quality suffer later

A medical student in the U.K. is cautioning proponents of AI in healthcare to beware the technology’s possible adverse effects on medical education.

June 18, 2020
Patient

Emergency-use authorization granted for AI-based COVID management

The FDA has cleared an AI startup based in Israel to market its predictive-analytics product to ICUs during the present pandemic.

June 17, 2020