From AIin.Healthcare’s sister outlets Cardiovascular Business, Health Imaging and Radiology Business: 

The AI development team was guided by a sports-medicine specialist dubbed “the go-to orthopedic surgeon for many of the greatest athletes on the planet.”

Women’s health specialists have demonstrated the customization of a commercial AI-based chatbot platform for patients with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. The pilot project took many hands and much manual labor to complete, but the team suggests the effort has been worth the payoffs.

AI technologies likely can go only so far toward improving on hearing aids and cochlear implants. However, AI and hearing experts expect fertile grounds to open for exploration in clinical as well as research arenas.

Only two-thirds of U.S. healthcare consumers are OK with surgeons using digital facial recognition to avoid medical error by confirming patient identity.

Contrary to intuitive expectations, many errors in drug ordering are caused or worsened by the intricacies of the EHR.

Researchers have used electron microscopes and machine learning to create detailed, high-resolution 3D images of subcellular structures called organelles.

In hospitals where patients are routinely X-rayed following surgery, AI-equipped CAD software could screen for left-behinds automatically.