Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a crucial component of healthcare to help augment physicians and make them more efficient. In medical imaging, it is helping radiologists more efficiently manage PACS worklists, enable structured reporting, auto detect injuries and diseases, and to pull in relevant prior exams and patient data. In cardiology, AI is helping automate tasks and measurements on imaging and in reporting systems, guides novice echo users to improve imaging and accuracy, and can risk stratify patients. AI includes deep learning algorithms, machine learning, computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and convolutional neural networks. 

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ChatGPT is overly worried about ED patients

The popular AI chatbot tends to over-order X-rays, prescribe too many antibiotics and admit too many patients to the hospital when compared with a resident emergency department physician. 

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FDA grants AI-powered ECG screening tool for aortic stenosis its breakthrough device designation

The FDA clearly sees significant potential in this new screening software from New York-based AccurKardia.

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3 things AI startups, investors must know to clear hurdles in healthcare technology markets

As 2024 winds down and the number of FDA-approved medical devices packing AI approaches 1,000—the agency had the tally at 950 as of August—the industry finds itself at a “critical inflection point.” 

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4 ways to help nurses make friends with algorithms

Nurses tend to feel optimistic if not exactly excited about AI’s advances into their profession. Those who hold back tend to share a common concern—sacrificing care quality for the sake of tech-enabled efficiency. 

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In pharma, AI will probably make the big even bigger

Generative AI is fixing to transform the pharmaceutical industry. However, not all adopters will reap rewards in comparable degrees.  

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Said and heard this week in and around healthcare

10 notable quotes about AI from the past 5 days.

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It’s 2024. Does the C-suite know—or care—what workers are doing with generative AI?

In the rush to do something, anything with AI, are America’s business leaders playing fast and loose with the risks? 

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AI detects hypertension in voice recordings

A machine learning-powered smartphone app was trained to detect hundreds of biomarkers in the human voice, using even the tiniest detail to anticipate when patients may present with symptoms of hypertension. 

Around the web

The American College of Cardiology has sent a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that outlines some of the organization’s central priorities and concerns. 

One product is being pulled from the market, and the other is receiving updated instructions for use.

If the Trump administration continues taking a laissez-faire stance toward AI—including AI used in healthcare—why not let the states go it alone on regulating the technology?