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Machine learning can tease out which location-specific—or “area-level”—social determinants of health warrant close monitoring in people who have diabetes and are at risk of losing control over it.  

Amazon Echo

The UK’s National Health Service announced Wednesday that it’s partnering with Amazon on AI. The plan is to offer NHS-approved health advice to every Brit who speaks a health-related query into an Alexa-enabled device.

U.K. residents will soon be able to utilize their Amazon Alexa voice technology to get certain medical information, after the National Health Service (NHS) struck a partnership with Amazon.

Climb

If it’s to progress from capturing the public’s imagination to earning widespread clinical implementation, healthcare AI has a long road to travel.  

Only 28% of ACOs formed in 2012 have taken on downside risk, while just 33% had at least one contract with downside risk in 2018, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

Lab Science

Machine learning is being quickly adapted across the healthcare space to develop precision medicine, and it can also be leveraged to improve the development of new drug treatments and devices by improving the randomized clinical trial process, according to MIT researchers.

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The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.