A deep learning algorithm developed by members of Google's artificial intelligence team achieved "state-of-the-art performance" in detecting easily overlooked indicators of lung cancer in CT scans, according to a study published this week in Nature Medicine.

Despite Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's repeated assurances that artificial intelligence will eliminate the proliferation of hate speech on the social networking platform, Mike Schroepfer, the company's chief technology officer and a formerly staunch advocate for AI, is no longer quite as sure.

Despite the prevalence of stories about digital medical trackers catching undetected health issues and saving lives, these devices carry their own set of risks, according to John Mandrola, MD, a cardiac electrophysiologist at Baptist Health in Louisville, Ky.

The healthcare industry has a problem with data quality.

Here are key insights from nine recent studies on EHRs:

Apple's research and development spending has grown from $1 billion in 2009 to an estimated $13 billion in 2019, according to a Bank of America analyst Wamsi Mohan, CNBC reports.

Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet company, launched the Baseline Health System Consortium in collaboration with six U.S. health systems to help make clinical research more accessible for patients, clinicians and researchers.

Salesforce experienced a "major issue," May 17 that made its Sales Cloud and Service Cloud products inaccessible to customers for nearly 18 hours, CNBC reports.

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers studied EHR data and developed an algorithm that identifies and assigns patients into four separate types of sepsis, according to a May 19 study published in JAMA.

A robot designed to lead therapy sessions in clinics and schools for children with autism spectrum disorder is helping young people with autism to learn social, emotional and communication skills, The Wall Street Journal reports.

While most addictive substances such as alcohol can be easily quantified, digital content cannot, making it difficult to define and stymie "digital addiction" in children, according to a JAMA op-ed published on May 16.

A group of undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have developed a low-cost reusable needle technology that aims to improve access to pricey breast cancer biopsies in developing countries, TechCrunch reports.

Though it may seem counterintuitive, automating tasks and outsourcing responsibilities to algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence will actually humanize medicine, according to Eric Topol, MD, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, Calif.

Seattle-based Bloodworks, Northwest is notifying 1,893 patients of a March data breach that may have exposed patients' personal information.

A Paramus, N.J.-based orthopedic surgeon is alerting patients that their personal information may have been exposed due to a ransomware attack in January at his practice.

Using a combination of artificial intelligence, satellite imagery and publicly available census information, Facebook has created three types of maps to improve responses to disease outbreaks, available for use by health organizations around the world beginning May 20.

A blockchain-powered initial public offering platform is scheduled to list its first company in June, according to the CoinTelegraph.

IBM has partnered with Samsung SDS to strengthen an existing blockchain-based hyperledger while also improving other blockchain ecosystems.

A new gene therapy developed for the treatment of malignant glioma, a rare and fast-growing brain cancer, received Orphan Drug status from the FDA this week, New York City-based biopharmaceutical company Mustang Bio and Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Children's Hospital announced.

Veterans with persistent mental deficits due to mild traumatic brain injuries experienced improvements in their cognitive abilities after using a specialized computer program for several months, according to research presented at the Traumatic Brain Injury Conference in Washington, D.C., this week, STAT reports.