TriHealth will invest $10 million to implement tools from IBM Watson Health's enterprise imaging portfolio, the Cincinnati-based health system confirmed April 19.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 4/20/18

Valley Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group with four facilities across Western Massachusetts, deployed a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool to automate prescription refills, according to an April 17 athenaInsight blog post.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 4/18/18

Consumers are most at ease with artificial intelligence in a healthcare setting, as opposed to other industries such as banking or retail, according to a recent SAS report.  By Julie Spitzer - 4/10/18

The Princeton (N.J.) University Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering is partnering with ODH, a data science company focused on health technology, to research artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to help healthcare providers evaluate the mental and social health factors affecting their patients.  By Julie Spitzer - 4/9/18

Apple hired Google's Chief of Search and Artificial Intelligence, John Giannandrea, to run its machine learning and AI strategy, according to The New York Times.  By Julie Spitzer - 4/4/18

Two artificial intelligence researchers outlined four reasons AI likely won't replace radiologists, despite recent technological advancements, in a March 27 op-ed published in Harvard Business Review.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 4/2/18

A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston developed an artificial intelligence technique to improve the quality of medical images, the hospital announced March 21.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 3/30/18

A recent blog post by Qventus reviews a Q&A with Dr. Stephen Traub, Chairman of a major Phoenix, Arizona Emergency Department and an advisor to Qventus, and discusses Artificial Intelligence in healthcare and some challenges facing hospitals today as they explore new technologies.  By Staff - 3/27/18

U.S. News & World Report released its ranking of best U.S. graduate schools for artificial intelligence programs March 20.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 3/23/18

Jonathan Linkous, the former CEO of the American Telemedicine Association who stepped down from the role in August 2017 after 24 years, co-founded a new trade group to push artificial intelligence and automation in healthcare, according to Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.  By Julie Spitzer - 3/22/18

Managers in healthcare are less likely to have adopted robotics or automation than those in other industries, according to a MindEdge report.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 3/16/18

Verb Surgical is working to develop a better, cheaper surgical robot that features a slew of software tools capable of recording insights from procedures — and with partners like Google and Johnson & Johnson, it may eventually change the way surgeons do their jobs, CNBC reports.  By Julie Spitzer - 3/16/18

Similar to how the bicycle revolutionized mankind's ability to get places, artificial intelligence has the potential to make healthcare workers' lives faster, easier and more efficient.  By Julie Spitzer - 3/16/18

Stanford (Calif.) University researchers are concerned about the ethical implications of using machine learning tools to make healthcare decisions for patients, according to a perspective piece published March 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine and reported by Medical Xpress.  By Julie Spitzer - 3/15/18

Microsoft has renamed its Microsoft Intelligent Network for Eyecare as part of the company's move to apply artificial intelligence across multiple medical specialties, the company announced March 8.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 3/13/18

Medial EarlySign, a developer of artificial intelligence-powered software tools, raised $30 million in a recent funding round, according to Reuters.  By Anuja Vaidya - 3/9/18

Rochester, Minn-based Mayo Clinic enrolled more patients in its breast cancer clinical trials after implementing IBM Watson Health's Watson for Clinical Trials Matching, a cognitive computing system, according to early results of use in Mayo's oncology practice.  By Julie Spitzer - 3/8/18

To really make headway with artificial intelligence, healthcare should think smaller than "headline-grabbing moonshots," and instead, make computers tackle healthcare's most mundane tasks, athenahealth President, CEO and Chairman Jonathan Bush writes in an op-ed for the Harvard Business Review.  By Julie Spitzer - 3/7/18

Nearly half (47 percent) of health consumers said they would use an artificially intelligent virtual physician provided by their health service because it is available whenever they need it, according to a survey released by Accenture.  By Megan Knowles - 3/6/18

Philips, focusing on integration, interoperability, internet of things devices and artificial intelligence, is expanding its product portfolio, according to internet of business.  By Julie Spitzer - 3/5/18