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.

Reality-checking 3 assumptions about healthcare AI

AI enthusiasts have varying aims and incentives for pushing the technology into healthcare, but many parrot a common set of justifications. Do any of these sound familiar?

AI, virtual reality combine to fine-tune drug compounds for fighting COVID-19

Researchers have demonstrated a way to visually explore small-molecule inhibitors that, according to algorithmic suggestions, show potential for targeting COVID-19’s main proteins.

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Mixed results for healthcare providers pitting AI against COVID

Healthcare AI startups are asserting AI’s fitness for the fight against COVID-19. How’s that working from the perspective of healthcare providers?

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COVID lessons emerge from AI tracking of Reddit talk trends

U.S. healthcare leadership missed opportunities for optimally promoting public health fairly early on in the present pandemic.

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FDA clears AI software for early osteoporosis intervention

Notching its fifth go-ahead from the FDA, an Israel-based AI startup has received the agency’s 510(k) clearance to market software that automatically identifies signs of compression fractures in the spine.

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$20M to help machine learning map the immune system

AI startup Immunai has announced it’s working to map the entire human immune system with $20 million in seed funding to push the project along.

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AI called the ‘perfect tool’ to flag signs of serious trouble ahead for new COVID patients

An experimental set of algorithms has achieved accuracy of 70% to 80% at predicting which of 53 COVID-positive patients at two hospitals in China would get the sickest.

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6 hurdles primary care must clear to begin leveraging AI

Despite the inroads AI has made into many medical specialties, the technology has failed to find a foothold in primary care. Why is that?