Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic on June 30 announced a new collaboration with Diagnostic Robotics to implement its artificial intelligence platform that predicts patients' hospitalization risk and triages them to appropriate care. 

Paul Rothman, MD, CEO of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine and dean of the medical faculty at Johns Hopkins University, discussed the health system's COVID-19 data platform and the potential for artificial intelligence to make a difference in how health systems approach treatment in the future in an interview with The Media Line.

Combining the respective capabilities of EHRs and artificial intelligence may provide patients with more personalized caregiver recommendations, according to Quartz.

Advances in artificial intelligence are helping pave the way for intelligent health systems, which focus on using AI and data to establish care and operational strategies, according to Tom Lawry, national director for AI, health and life sciences at Microsoft. 

La Crosse, Wis.-based Gundersen Health System is betting on artificial intelligence and telemedicine as the future of healthcare delivery with a new technology investment with the potential for big returns, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal.

Many of the algorithms physicians use to inform their decisions on patient treatment operate with subliminal racial bias, according to a study published June 17 in The New England Journal of Medicine.

With the National Institutes of Health's COVID-19 research publication database nearing 30,000 articles available, University of California Berkeley and Google are just two of numerous organizations developing artificial intelligence tools to help clinicians and researchers sift through the literature, according to Nature.

Prior to the widespread transmission of COVID-19, healthcare was experiencing an epidemic of clinician burnout. The pandemic has almost certainly worsened the problem.

When investing in artificial intelligence, working with an encouraging tech vendor and piloting a successful project are important factors, but the project is doomed to fail if the AI model cannot fit into the company's larger IT systems and infrastructure, according to a recent Harvard Business Review report. 

International Data Corp. highlighted the importance of integrating artificial intelligence into patient engagement by publishing a report on the top five companies using AI to connect with patients.

American Hospital Dubai is teaming up with Cerner to open the health system's first artificial intelligence research center in support of clinical AI and data analytics initiatives. 

When patients of one sex are underrepresented in training data used to develop a machine learning model, the algorithm yields less accurate diagnoses for patients of that sex, according to a new study published May 25 in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

As healthcare organizations consider re-opening services amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring the safety and wellness of their employees and patients is a key focus. Leadership must think about how to effectively re-engage with employees who have been away from work while also preparing for patients' return.

Google recently developed an AI system that detects age-related macular degeneration in the eye and demonstrates the potential to predict the disease's progression. 

Mount Sinai Health System in New York City is using artificial intelligence in combination with imaging and clinical data to diagnose and treat COVID-19 patients.

Healthcare leaders across the U.S. are examining the most practical and beneficial ways to use artificial intelligence for clinical care beyond the typical narrow approach to solve specific problems.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk revealed his company Neuralink is developing a brain chip that can be implanted in a person in an interview on "The Joe Rogan Experience."

The revenue cycle presents various challenges for the healthcare industry; from staffing constraints to rapidly changing regulations providers must adhere to when seeking reimbursement. AI can offset both these issues by helping hospitals and health systems automate time-consuming, repetitive processes.

Intel Labs is teaming up with the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine to develop artificial intelligence models that identify brain tumors using federated learning, a technique that protects patients' privacy.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic will use artificial intelligence software from U.K. health tech company Ultromics to analyze echocardiograms of COVID-19 patients to identify how the virus affects the cardiovascular system.