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Category: artificial intelligence
An invisible hand: Patients aren’t being told about the AI systems advising their care
Since February of last year, tens of thousands of patients hospitalized at one of Minnesota’s…
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An experiment in end-of-life care: Tapping AI’s cold calculus to nudge the most human of conversations
The daily email that arrived in physician Samantha Wang’s inbox at 8 a.m., just before…
Meet STACI: your interactive guide to the rapid advances of AI in health care
Artificial intelligence has become its own sub-industry in health care, driving the development of products…
At Mayo Clinic, sharing patient data with companies fuels AI innovation — and concerns about consent
ROCHESTER, Minn. — The patients of Mayo Clinic, whether they know it or not, have…
AI systems are worse at diagnosing disease when training data is skewed by sex
The artificial intelligence model showed great promise in predicting which patients treated in U.S. Veterans…
STAT Plus: AI startup transcribes and annotates doctor visits for patients
Most attempts to use artificial intelligence to transcribe doctor visits are aimed at limiting documentation…
STAT Plus: Google develops AI to identify patients at high risk of blindness
Artificial intelligence has shown an increasing ability to detect and diagnose eye diseases by analyzing…
STAT Plus: Hospitals are reluctant to share data. A new effort to map brain tumors with AI is getting their help another way
It’s a contradiction that’s long slowed the forward march of artificial intelligence in medicine: Machine…
STAT Plus: AI-centric health companies landed crucial funding in early 2020
Artificial intelligence-focused health care companies raised nearly $1 billion in funding in the first quarter…
The fight over facial recognition technology gets fiercer during the Covid-19 pandemic
The long-simmering debate over facial recognition technology is taking on new urgency during the pandemic,…
Hospitals are using AI to predict the decline of Covid-19 patients — before knowing it works
Dozens of hospitals across the country are using an artificial intelligence system created by Epic,…
How a coronavirus symptom checker came to steer patients to care from Texas to Estonia
When Covid-19 began spreading in the United States, Emory Healthcare was prepared in one way…
Opinion: De-identified data exception in HIPAA poses a litigation risk
As money pours into health care startups built around artificial intelligence — more than 350 deals…
International trial uses AI to rapidly identify optimal Covid-19 treatments
Treating patients with the never-before-seen Covid-19 is forcing doctors to choose between two equally unpalatable…
Discovery of racial bias in health care AI wins STAT Madness ‘Editors’ Pick’
Although “garbage in, garbage out” has been a software truism for more than half a…
‘Human experts will make the call’: Stanford launches an accelerated test of AI to help care for Covid-19 patients
In the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford clinicians and researchers are exploring whether artificial intelligence…
STAT’s guide to how hospitals are using AI to fight Covid-19
The coronavirus outbreak has rapidly accelerated the nation’s slow-moving effort to incorporate artificial intelligence into…
Debate flares over using AI to detect Covid-19 in lung scans
A series of studies, starting as a steady drip and quickening to a deluge, has…
STAT Plus: Digital therapy for chronic insomnia gains FDA signoff
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the use of a digital product that…
I asked eight chatbots whether I had Covid-19. The answers ranged from ‘low’ risk to ‘start home isolation’
U.S. hospitals, public health authorities, and digital health companies have quickly deployed online symptom checkers…
Changes in language on Facebook posts could signal need for hospitalization or emergency services
Can Facebook posts predict who might soon end up in the emergency department? They can,…
To spur new AI tools to fight coronavirus, tech leaders launch open database of scientific articles
Five organizations on Monday released a new open dataset of over 29,000 scientific articles published…
STAT Plus: Hospitals turn to big tech companies to store and analyze their data — leaving patients in the dark on privacy protections
The nation’s largest hospital systems are rapidly shifting sensitive health data into cloud storage platforms…
Opinion: Tackling drug shortages with data, AI, legislation, and more
Every quarter since 2014, roughly 150 to 300 drugs have been in short supply in…
Opinion: Can you sue an algorithm for malpractice? It depends
The rapid entry of artificial intelligence is stretching the boundaries of medicine. It will also…
STAT Plus: Contract spells out how the University of Chicago shared patient data with Google
SAN FRANCISCO — In December 2016, Google and the University of Chicago signed a contract…
STAT Plus: AI has arrived in medical imaging. Now the FDA needs to monitor its impact on patients
BETHESDA, Md. — This is the moment of truth for the FDA’s regulation of artificial…
Researchers develop AI-based intervention for kids with autism
Everyday social interactions with family members and peers can be challenging for children with autism…
STAT Plus: Contract offers unprecedented look at Google deal to obtain patient data from the University of California
SAN FRANCISCO — It was the fall of 2015 when researchers from Google and the…
STAT Plus: Google’s labors to anonymize patient data suggest health systems face an uphill battle
Google has been exploring creative ways to protect sensitive health data, even as it has…
STAT Plus: Nuance begins selling AI system to automate physician note-taking during exams
The medical speech recognition company Nuance said Monday it will begin widely selling an artificial…
Aided by machine learning, scientists find a novel antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice
For decades, discovering novel antibiotics meant digging through the same patch of dirt. Biologists spent…
STAT Plus: European Union proposes independent audits for high-risk AI systems
A version of this story appeared in STAT’s Health Tech newsletter. Click here to subscribe. European regulators…
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STAT Plus: ‘It’s very easy to get starry-eyed about AI’: Experts offer warnings on digital disruption in health care
Jenni West’s job is to spot innovative technology that improves people’s lives. As associate director…
In coronavirus response, AI is becoming a useful tool in a global outbreak, data experts say
A version of this story appeared in STAT’s Health Tech newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Artificial intelligence…
A ‘landmark’ achievement: Scientists trace full wiring diagram of the fly brain’s core
Particle physicists are used to popping champagne corks when they make discoveries at lilliputian scales,…
Opinion: Health care needs AI. It also needs the human touch
As friends who work as pediatricians, we’ve had several conversations recently about artificial intelligence and…
STAT Plus: Pear Therapeutics licenses voice biomarkers for dementia and psychiatric disorders
Pear Therapeutics has struck a deal to license voice biomarkers to try to improve treatment…
At Mayo Clinic, AI engineers face an ‘acid test’: Will their algorithms help real patients?
ROCHESTER, Minn. — It would be easy to wonder what Zachi Attia is doing in…
STAT Plus: These 7 startups acquired by Apple are central to its health care strategy
Of all the tech companies aiming to shakeup health care, few have proclaimed as bold a…
Opinion: Machine learning for clinical decision-making: pay attention to what you don’t see
Even as machine learning and artificial intelligence are drawing substantial attention in health care, overzealousness…
Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy
On the heels of forming a new partnership with Google, Mayo Clinic announced it has…
STAT Plus: Senators urge Medicare to prevent bias in AI tools used in health care
Two Senate Democrats are challenging Medicare’s top official to investigate how health care tools based…
STAT Plus: A bold prediction: Machine learning will yield new drug candidates within three years
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — An explosion of biological data will lead to the first drug candidates…