Virtual Event: Creating AI That Improves Health
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Category: artificial intelligence
STAT+: Serving as a ‘clinical colleague,’ AI shows potential to reduce sepsis deaths in real-world studies
Three studies published Thursday found that an AI platform developed by Bayesian Health and Johns…
‘It’s not going to work’: Keeping race out of machine learning isn’t enough to avoid bias
As more machine learning tools reach patients, developers are starting to get smart about the…
STAT+: With Cerner deal closed, Oracle chair pitches sweeping vision for health records and artificial intelligence
Oracle chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison vowed to prioritize the cloud giant’s health…
Opinion: STAT+: A market failure is preventing efficient diffusion of health care AI software
Artificial intelligence (AI) software can improve patient care, but a key market failure is preventing…
STAT+: Google taps FDA’s former digital health chief for global strategy role
Google has hired the former head of digital health at the U.S. Food and Drug…
STAT+: Researchers look to deliver ‘unbiased judgment of AI bias’ in medicine
After an explosion of excitement in the potential for machine learning in medicine, cracks in…
He had an M.D. and a Ph.D. but didn’t match into a residency. It was the push he needed to jump into health tech
Travis Hughes had been assured by both mentors and peers that he was a front-runner…
STAT+: Breakthrough Device Tracker: An authoritative database of FDA’s fast-tracked medical devices
The world of medical devices is growing more sprawling every day. Some promising novel ideas…
STAT+: FDA’s breakthrough device program, meant to benefit patients, is delivering the biggest gains for companies
Five years ago, the Food and Drug Administration launched a new program with the best…
Ransomware hits rural health centers & a true test of AI
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‘We need to be much more diverse’: More than half of data used in health care AI comes from the U.S. and China
As medicine continues to test automated machine learning tools, many hope that low-cost support tools…
Opinion: What health care must learn from meteorology about the importance of R2O
Twenty years ago, a board of atmospheric experts published a report that revolutionized the meteorology…
STAT+: Humility over hype: An AI leader at Google lays out a vision to transform medical care
From a high perch within Google, Greg Corrado is steering the development of artificial intelligence…
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When AI takes a human touch: How a team effort to improve patient care in hospitals paid off
The project began with a vexing problem. Imaging tests that turned up unexpected issues —…
Opinion: Health-related artificial intelligence needs rigorous evaluation and guardrails
Algorithms can augment human decision-making by integrating and analyzing more data, and more kinds of…
Health care organizations face a cybersecurity mandate
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STAT and MIT rooted out the weaknesses in health care algorithms. Here’s how we did it
In July 2021, STAT and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology set out to answer a…
STAT+: AI gone astray: How subtle shifts in patient data send popular algorithms reeling, undermining patient safety
A novel investigation by STAT and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that subtle shifts…
AI for telehealth & the latest in health tech at CES
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Opinion: STAT+: Forget the hype and embrace the reality: How AI can improve health outcomes right now
The story of artificial intelligence (AI) driving better health care outcomes has been a convoluted…
STAT+: Medicine’s first autonomous AI could prevent blindness due to diabetes — if it can reach those most in need
Once feared as a job-erasing technology devoid of clinical nuance, autonomous artificial intelligence in medicine…
STAT+: Artificial intelligence is making a pitch to transform radiology. Will it pay off for hospitals?
For radiologists working today, the specter of artificial intelligence is inescapable. In the past year,…
Holmes admits to misstep & Amazon scores a big health cloud client
Holmes admits to one key misstep in Theranos debacle Since Elizabeth Holmes first took the…
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Opinion: In AI development, equality starts with a mandate for fairness and inclusivity
What are the most important ethical considerations for artificial intelligence (AI) in health care? The…
STAT+: ‘We all have to come together’: Experts lay out how to keep AI in health care in check
The reach of artificial intelligence in health care settings has expanded to touch everything from…
STAT+: Generate Biomedicines raises $370m and plans to increase workforce sixfold
Cambridge biotech Generate Biomedicines said Thursday it has raised $370 million in venture capital from…
STAT+: ‘It’s going to set the bar pretty high’: A path forward for trusted AI in breast cancer risk prediction
As the role of artificial intelligence grows in medicine, one of the leading concerns is…
STAT+: Alphabet has a new drug discovery company building on DeepMind’s AI chops
Alphabet is plunging into the drug discovery business. Over the last year, the tech behemoth…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversation: Intelligence about artificial intelligence
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STAT+: Could wearable tech — and AI — change how we diagnose infants with conditions like cerebral palsy?
An unlikely team of engineers and mobility researchers has developed an experimental set of small,…
Opinion: Making clinicians worthy of medical AI: Lessons from Tesla and self-driving cars
Tesla is in the midst of conducting an unprecedented social experiment: testing drivers of its…
STAT+: Illuminating the black box: Five ways the FDA could build transparency into AI devices
Artificial intelligence tools in health care should be safe and effective. They should be fair…
STAT+: Why the medical AI company Dascena hopes hard evidence will separate it from its rivals
Think of it as digital health’s chicken and egg problem. Which comes first: national distribution…
STAT+: Epic’s sepsis algorithm is going off the rails in the real world. The use of these variables may explain why
In marketing materials and internal documents, national electronic health record vendor Epic Systems has touted…
In the hunt for novel antibiotics, will new technology overtake underwater exploration?
LAKE SUPERIOR — Choppy, windswept waves slap at the hull as our boat nears the…
A unicorn in women’s health & machine learning skepticism
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At a leading health tech conference, enthusiasm for machine learning mixes with calls for greater scrutiny
Any digital health conference features its share of machine learning evangelism. Technology executives give fervent…
Opinion: Algorithmic bias is pervasive in health care. It needn’t be
The World Health Organization issued its first global report on artificial intelligence in late June,…
Opinion: Digital twins: Will doubling up help personalize health care?
Two often-cited emerging trends in the health care space are personalized care and remote care….
Opinion: Responsible AI: leveraging data and technology to counteract bias
Left unchecked, algorithmic approaches can perpetuate bias in health care. Implementing responsible AI can help…
With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment
In the seven difficult years since their son Mateo was diagnosed with a rare disease,…
STAT+: Deep Genomics raises $180 million to automate drug discovery
Brendan Frey, the founder and chief executive of Deep Genomics, thinks the wrong people are…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversations: A conversation on scrutiny facing Epic’s health care algorithms
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Researchers analyzed 4,063 papers on tools to help guide care. Only 12 were replications
Clinical decision support is one of digital health’s great promises. Faced with a surplus of…
STAT+: Epic’s AI algorithms, shielded from scrutiny by a corporate firewall, are delivering inaccurate information on seriously ill patients
Several artificial intelligence algorithms developed by Epic Systems, the nation’s largest electronic health record vendor,…
Alphabet firm DeepMind releases massive database of 3D protein structures
With the advent of cheap genetic sequencing, the world of biology has been flooded with…
Opinion: Explaining medical AI is easier said than done
The growing use of artificial intelligence in medicine is paralleled by growing concern among many…
STAT+: DeepMind and and a rival release dueling code for protein-folding AI
Computational biologists have been on tenterhooks for the past seven months, ever since DeepMind took…
Researchers use machine learning to translate brain signals from a paralyzed patient into text
Assistive technologies such as handheld tablets and eye-tracking devices are increasingly helping give voice to…