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. 

Explainable AI’s pros ‘not what they appear’ while its cons are ‘worth highlighting’

Not so fast with explainable AI in healthcare, warns an international and multidisciplinary team of academics.

AI experts to med students: Don’t compete with the machine. Collaborate with it

As machine learning progresses from research settings to clinical practice, how are clinicians to know they can trust the machine’s conclusions to guide care for actual patients?

Virtually trained NICU nurses sensitively respond to babies’ pain

Infants in pain can’t describe the severity of their discomfort, but NICU nurses can e-learn how to gauge pain degrees according to standardized scales, allowing for prompt and appropriate pain-relief interventions.

Retinopathy screening a canary in the coal mine of AI-enabled nonspecialist care

Many cases will be handled by primary-care providers, eye technicians and even patients themselves connected by telehealth and armed with commercial test kits and AI.

10 robots for cranial neurosurgery on the market or in the works

The authors concentrate on robotic technologies that either augment a surgeon’s movements or simplify a multistep process.

Cheers! AI augments hearing aids with virtual microphones ‘mounted’ on the forehead

The experimental approach delivers a more natural sound by correcting for the need to place microphones at impractical points like the forehead.

Out of many, one: COVID database takes root, epitomizes the national ideal

MIT charts the encouraging story behind—and in front of—the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C ).

Will Nurse Grace cheer patients up or scare them away?

Empathetic, affable, visually unthreatening and coolly competent in several healthcare tasks, a newly trained nurse named Grace has made a head-turning debut.

Around the web

In the post-COVID era, wages for permanent RNs are rising, and wages for travelers are decreasing. A new report tracked these trends and more. 

Two medical device companies have announced a transaction that could shake up the U.S. electrophysiology market. 

These companies were already part of the Johnson & Johnson family, but they had still retained their previous brand names. Now, each one is officially going by Johnson & Johnson MedTech. 

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