AFib patients undergoing cardiac surgery may benefit from concomitant LAAO, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Deficiencies in healthcare systems are emerging in states with some of the fastest growing populations.

Healthcare AI has potential not only for neutralizing its inherent algorithmic bias but also for personalizing its outputs to help humans address health inequities.

This issue “has the potential to inhibit lifesaving therapies,” according to a new analysis in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Black-box AI should be barred from reading medical images in clinical settings because machine learning, like human thinking, tends to take diagnostic shortcuts. 

When the network interpreted complete videos from 42 consecutive patients, it boosted detection rates by as much as 50% over physician-alone reads.

Upon examining a skin lesion they suspected of being malignant, few dermatologists—only 8%—would hold back from performing a biopsy if an AI tool disagreed, classifying it as benign.

Mayo Clinic Health System is permanently closing five locations in Minnesota and Iowa.