AI news that drew views this week (Feb. 22–26)

The reported exploration to sell Watson Health, the AI-driven health business of IBM, underscores deep challenges with technology in solving healthcare problems, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Several issues with AI can “make people suspicious” of the technology when applied to healthcare, according to the Consumer Technology Association.

An AI decision aid significantly improved decision quality, level of shared decision-making, patient satisfaction and functional outcomes in patients compared to an education-only approach, according to a new study in JAMA.

International Business Machines Corp. is looking into dealing its AI-pioneering Watson Health unit so the parent can move more nimbly into cloud computing, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

The plan is to draw health data from every available source to continuously nudge individuals toward not only appropriate medical care but also healthier lifestyles.

A survey of ICU doctors and nurses at Mayo Clinic reveals widespread concern over lawsuits connected to the proposed use of video recording and video recognition with computer vision.

If verified in additional trials, the advance will facilitate care planning much earlier than the current average age of diagnosis, 4 years old.

An AI startup’s virtual-patient technology is good enough at teaching empathy to clinicians that it’s already in use at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the National Health Service in Britain and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

Only two of 34 representative studies evaluating the use of AI for real-world shared clinical decisionmaking from 2014 to 2020 included external validation of the models up for consideration.