Innovation

The pandemic has brought the need to address health inequities into stark focus. The digital health sector, with its ability to expand access to convenient care and spot patient patterns, has an opportunity to reduce those disparities.

Many hospital systems are turning to artificial intelligence to analyze patient data and identify people at risk of comorbidities. But there are pitfalls CIOs need to look for, according to a May 17 CIO report.

Artificial intelligence is a growing part of the health IT sector. Here are 10 healthcare AI startups to watch (with their disclosed funding), according to CB Insights’ list of the top 100 AI startups of 2022:

Anthem partnered with Google Cloud to create a synthetic data platform that can train AI algorithms to identify fraudulent claims and abnormalities in patients' health, The Wall Street Journal reported May 17. 

Digitizing the patient experience to make it as convenient as online shopping or travel booking can help alleviate the labor shortages that have plagued healthcare, David Peterson, chief strategy officer for health IT consultant AccuReg, wrote March 23 in Medical Economics.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers found that clinician assessment paired with automated machine learning could improve suicide risk detection in patients, according to a study published May 13 in JAMA Open. 

New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers' AI sensor, trained to identify ovarian cancer, was found to be more effective than currently used methods for early detection.  

Hospital systems can employ artificial intelligence to reduce the types of health inequities that have made communities of color more vulnerable to COVID-19, the leader of one of the nation's largest health systems says.

The market for IoT in healthcare is growing, and is expected to be worth $952.3 billion by 2032 according to a new market report by Future Markets Insight.

Nursing students in Colorado are getting a chance to see if virtual reality can assist in training the medical professionals of tomorrow.