Artificial Intelligence

Philips launches AI incubator with 19 startups

Royal Philips has launched a global incubator for artificial intelligence startups working in the healthcare industry. By Jessica Kim Cohen - 10/19/18
MIT to open college for AI: 5 things to know

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge plans to open a college for artificial intelligence backed by a planned investment of $1 billion, The New York Times reports. By Jessica Kim Cohen - 10/17/18
AI-driven health tech firm Gauss Surgical raises $20M; 8 health systems are investors in funding round

Artificial intelligence-focused healthcare technology company Gauss Surgical raised $20 million in Series C funding. Eight of the 10 investors in the round were health systems. By Anuja Vaidya - 10/17/18

Google creates AI to detect when breast cancer spreads

Google's new artificial intelligence algorithm, dubbed LYNA, accurately detects the spread of breast cancer — but the company is taking pains to highlight that the tool is meant to assist, not replace, human pathologists. By Jessica Kim Cohen - 10/17/18
4 tech leaders share key applications and considerations for AI

Artificial intelligence advancements are poised to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered. However, numerous privacy precautions and user considerations must be weighed when creating such technologies. By Mackenzie Bean - 9/27/18
Optum, VC firms invest $33M in AI company IDx

IDx, a developer of artificial intelligence-based diagnostic tools, secured $33 million in its most recent financing round. By Jessica Kim Cohen - 9/27/18
NYU uses Google's AI to identify lung cancer

Researchers at New York University in New York City trained an artificial intelligence algorithm developed by Google to distinguish between two common types of lung cancer, Wired reports. By Jessica Kim Cohen - 9/27/18

Mayo Clinic, Mass General, Nvidia researchers use AI to create 'synthetic MRIs'

A team of researchers from Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Clinical Data Science — both in Boston — and technology vendor Nvidia developed an artificial intelligence model to generate "synthetic MRIs," according to a Nvidia blog post. By Jessica Kim Cohen - 9/24/18
How China is using AI to push back against its physician shortage

With less than 12 million health workers for a population of 1.4 billion, China is facing an unprecedented physician shortage, — but it may have found a solution in technology, France 24 reports. By Julie Spitzer - 9/21/18
IBM says its new services 'open the black box of AI'

IBM launched a new service to give businesses transparency into how artificial intelligence makes decisions, in a move the company says is a "major step in breaking open the black box of AI." By Jessica Kim Cohen - 9/19/18
AI to save healthcare $150B by 2025: 5 report insights

Artificial intelligence and cognitive computing will generate more than $150 billion in savings for the healthcare industry by 2025, according to a report by the market research firm Frost & Sullivan. By Jessica Kim Cohen - 9/17/18

GE Healthcare expands Oregon hospital's mission control center to address sepsis care

GE Healthcare and Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University are expanding their partnership to develop a software application that will make care recommendations for patients at high risk for developing sepsis. By Julie Spitzer - 9/17/18
Google Cloud taps Carnegie Mellon professor to lead AI

Andrew Moore, PhD, dean of the school of computer science at Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University, will leave his role at the university to head up Google Cloud's artificial intelligence efforts full-time at the end of 2018. By Jessica Kim Cohen - 9/11/18
How AI is transforming organ donation: 7 things to know

Artificial intelligence algorithms are saving lives by changing the way patients are matched with kidney donors, Quartz reports. By Julie Spitzer - 9/11/18
Global healthcare AI market to reach $35B+ by 2025

The total global revenue opportunity for the healthcare artificial intelligence market will exceed $34 billion by 2025, according to a report from Tractica. By Anuja Vaidya - 9/11/18
Elon Musk suggests he's only months from 'merging' the human brain with AI

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, is only months away from revealing a product developed by his neurotechnology company Neuralink, according to claims he made during a Sept. 6 interview on "The Joe Rogan Experience." By Jessica Kim Cohen - 9/11/18
Hospitals use robotic ducks to comfort kids

Two children's cancer centers in the U.S. plan to use robotic ducks designed by Aflac to comfort kids while they receive treatment, Engadget reports. By Julie Spitzer - 9/7/18
Vanderbilt researchers think this AI solution will help hospitals flag suicide risk

Data scientists from Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center created a machine-learning algorithm to identify which patients may be at risk of suicide, according to Quartz. By Morgan Haefner - 9/5/18
AI and the revenue cycle: Why automation should be your next core competency

Effectively managing a hospital's revenue cycle requires the completion of time-consuming, cumbersome tasks that are prone to human error. However, automation shows promise for streamlining a significant amount of this labor-intensive work. By Julie Spitzer - 9/5/18
Dr. Eric Topol turns critical eye on landmark FDA-approved AI device

In April, the FDA approved the first medical device to provide physicians with autonomous screening decisions. It's a milestone for the medical community — but a few "blind spots" may have been overlooked, two researchers write in an editorial for npj Digital Medicine. By Jessica Kim Cohen - 9/5/18

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