Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, developed an artificial intelligence tool to predict which patients will remain stable overnight and don't need to be awoken for vital monitoring, according to a study published Nov. 13 in Nature Partner Journals Digital Medicine.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System researchers created machine learning-powered models that identify high risk and likelihood of mortality in COVID-19 patients.

Artificial intelligence technology examines data and provides insights into hospital and health system operations. This technology not only can save physicians time, but also improve the patient experience and the patient-provider relationship overall.

Two drugmakers have joined an experimental trial being run by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly evaluate and adjust COVID-19 treatments.

Google launched new artificial intelligence tools for healthcare providers to search through medical documentation on Nov. 10, according to a Google Cloud blog post.

Artificial intelligence holds great potential to transform healthcare for the better — including reducing workflow inefficiencies, predicting health outcomes and speeding up diagnoses — so researchers have been piloting more studies exploring the technology in the past decade.

Houston Methodist Hospital researchers created an artificial intelligence-powered risk calculator that predicts the likelihood a patient will develop breast cancer and recommends whether a biopsy should be performed, according to a Nov. 9 Culture Map Houston report.

CMS will pay healthcare organizations to use two artificial intelligence systems, a move that could potentially encourage widespread use of machine learning algorithms in the field.

Despite operation constraints and financial priorities shifted by the COVID-19 pandemic, most healthcare organizations (90 percent) anticipate artificial intelligence systems and tools to achieve widespread adoption across the industry over the next five years, according to Black Book Research.

Walmart terminated its contract with a robotics company after a year of testing roving robots that tracked inventory in its stores, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Medical researchers have increasingly used artificial intelligence to analyze factors such as patients' sleep patterns, speech and typing to identify cases of early-stage dementia more quickly, according to a Nov. 2 report in The Wall Street Journal.

Hospitals trail behind other healthcare organizations including payers and life sciences companies when it comes to artificial intelligence initiatives.

Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network has deployed an artificial intelligence-powered tool at all of its hospitals to save clinicians time when triaging, diagnosing and treating strokes, the health system announced Oct. 29.

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital has saved $40 million in system-wide reduced inefficiencies since launching its CareComm artificial intelligence command center with GE Healthcare's software in August 2019. 

CMS selected seven healthcare organizations, which will each receive $60,000, as finalists advancing to the second stage of its Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge, the agency announced Oct. 29.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has partnered with Google Health on a new initiative to boost radiation therapy planning with artificial intelligence.

Nearly three out of four healthcare organizations anticipate increasing their artificial intelligence tech and software funding this year, according to an Oct. 22 report from Deloitte.

Healthcare providers and insurers consider Microsoft to have the strongest healthcare artificial intelligence offering among the big tech giants, according to a report from healthcare data and IT insights company KLAS. 

The lack of proper data training for AI algorithms used for medical devices can end up being harmful to patients, experts told the FDA. The federal agency held a nearly seven-hour patient engagement meeting on the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare Oct. 22, in which experts addressed the public's questions about machine learning in medical devices.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is testing a new artificial intelligence-powered tool that can predict a COVID-19 patient's prognosis and recommend next steps for treatment, according to an Oct. 23 NextGov report.