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.

FDA hosts 2-day workshop focused on AI, medical imaging

As AI continues to make a profound impact on the medical imaging industry, the FDA is hosting a two-day public workshop to discuss the benefits and risks of this powerful technology.

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Health insurers step up appeal of clinics

Health insurance providers are increasingly stepping into the world of in-store clinics, becoming both the payer and the provider of care.

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AI platform expected to improve medical image analysis, expand ALS research

A new international partnership is focused on using AI technology to take a closer look at the human brain and advance amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research.  

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Algorithm finds promising—and heretofore hidden—superbug-buster

After poring over the chemical compositions of more than 107 million molecules used to make all sorts of drugs, a machine learning algorithm has plucked out one unexpected candidate that may be medicine’s best hope yet against dreaded superbugs.

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Watson rolls out toolset to streamline clinical study design

Healthcare AI giant IBM Watson Health has introduced software that can help medical researchers design clinical studies right the first time so as to minimize the need for tweaking and fine-tuning while their study is underway.

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Amazon Care goes live in Seattle

Amazon’s virtual care clinic offering for its Seattle-based employees has gone live.

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Advanced AI models improve data extraction from free-text pathology reports

Researchers have developed two AI-powered tools for automatically extracting key information from free-text pathology reports. The team shared its findings in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

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How AI can improve care, limit unnecessary surgeries for patients with kidney tumors

Machine learning-based CT texture analysis can help with the evaluation of solid renal masses, according to new findings published in Academic Radiology. Could this help reduce the number of patients undergoing unnecessary surgeries?