Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has developed an artificial intelligence-powered image analysis tool, MARQO, to accelerate cancer tissue processing. The tool works by extracting cellular and spatial information from tumor tissue slides. It supports immunohistochemistry…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center is planning to expand its DAX Copilot to inpatient clinicians as early as this fall. Here are five things to know:
While paper documentation still lingers in certain areas of health system operations, today’s physicians are largely spared from the manual record retrieval and clunky metal filing cabinets that were commonplace before the rise of the EHR. However, physicians still face…
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: