Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
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…
Hundreds of employees of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente rallied for a new contract with the health system, including job protections against AI, Hawaii News Now reported. The workers marched and waved signs outside Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center in Honolulu…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an AI echocardiography model that they say can detect cardiac amyloidosis from a single video clip. The model, created in partnership with an AI echocardiography company, was approved by the FDA as a…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to identify patients with atrial fibrillation more likely to benefit from left atrial appendage occlusion than direct oral anticoagulants. Researchers analyzed 744,190 adult patients treated between March 13, 2015, and…
The federal government is looking to expand the use of real-world data in health research and regulation, according to a draft strategy report obtained by Politico. Here are six things to know about the draft strategy report: The draft report…
Jackson, Tenn.-based West Tennessee Healthcare is piloting an AI tool at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital to help case managers shorten hospital stays. Dragonfly Navigate, developed by Xsolis, analyzes real-time patient data to predict discharge readiness and appropriate post-hospital placement, such…
AI-generated hospital course summaries required less editing than physician-written ones but contained more errors, a study led by New York City-based NYU Langone Health found. A generative AI tool embedded in Epic’s EHR was piloted on 100 general medicine admissions.…
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has begun deploying AI-powered imaging equipment across its network, eight months after announcing a partnership with GE HealthCare. The seven-year Care Alliance is one of GE HealthCare’s largest enterprise strategic partnerships, according to a news release…