Innovation

Machine learning can improve healthcare from streamlining administrative processes to carrying out medical and diagnostic analyses, Analytics Insight reported April 30. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic found that an AI-powered electrocardiography is capable of predicting atrial fibrillation up to 10 years before clinical diagnosis, according to a study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Pathology lives inside of a glass, but Cleveland Clinic is looking to change that as its new research collaboration aims to use AI to digitize pathology specimens and data, VentureBeat reported May 2.

While robotic-assisted surgeries are on the rise, augmented reality technology may disrupt the trend, said Randy Fagin, MD, chief medical officer of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare in an April 30 Healio article. 

Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami launched a wayfinding app to help patient families and visitors navigate the hospital’s 309-bed campus.

More hospitals with substantial cash pools have decided to think like venture capitalists, ramping up their investments into digital health startups.

Pharmacies across the country are blocking or delaying prescriptions from clinicians working for telehealth startups to treat ADHD, The Wall Street Journal reported April 27.

A research team from Boston Children's Hospital has created an artificial intelligence model that can successfully predict the likelihood of a patient to miss appointments, according to an April 20 Nature study. 

Behavioral health startup Concert Health on April 27 closed a $42 million series B funding round. 

A Cedars-Sinai physician in Los Angeles is running a virtual reality initiative and is discovering how the new technology can be useful to those dealing with chronic pain, The New York Times reported April 26.