Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health is piloting a computer program developed with Northwestern University in Evanston that aims to detect acute respiratory distress syndrome, a common but hard-to-diagnose lung condition. The program, trained on clinical guidelines used by ICU physicians, scans…
Cincinnati Children’s CEO Dr. Steve Davis was an early believer in AI’s ability to transform healthcare. He had his team dive in early; his foresight and persistence paid off. “A couple of years ago, we actually required every one of…
The use of ambient AI scribes led to a sharp drop in burnout and an increase in well-being among clinicians at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham and Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, a new study found. The health systems surveyed over 1,400…
A bundled, AI-enabled health coaching program significantly improved outcomes in adults with Type 2 diabetes, a recent Cleveland Clinic study found. The intervention, developed by Twin Health, used wearable devices and a smartphone app to deliver personalized nutrition and exercise…
San Francisco-based Apella launched Apella Horizon on Aug. 20, expanding its real-time AI platform to include surgical scheduling and capacity optimization. The system integrates predictive algorithms and ambient sensing to improve preoperative planning, real-time OR coordination and retrospective performance analysis.…
Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health has implemented an AI-powered clinical deterioration tool, eCART, across its seven hospitals — a move leaders say has both improved patient safety and reduced strain on clinicians. The health system evaluated six different tools —…
Tech companies are accelerating their push into healthcare, unveiling new AI tools aimed at everything from documenting patient visits to supporting medical care in space. Here’s a look at recent moves by tech giants expanding their footprint in healthcare AI:
Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health rolled out its “Virtual Single Patient Record” system, an isolated recovery environment developed with health tech company CareEvolution. The platform enables clinicians to access a read-only patient record when the primary electronic medical record or…
Ambience Healthcare has unveiled an AI assistant that allows clinicians to ask questions in the EHR. The AI startup said Chart Chat is the first “production-quality solution” of its kind built into Epic. The copilot merges patient EHR data with…
The American Medical Association released guidance to help health systems develop artificial intelligence policies. The AMA’s “Governance for Augmented Intelligence” toolkit, developed with New York City-based Manatt Health, outlines an eight-step framework to implement, manage and scale AI. The document…