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. 

Healthcare AI startup lands $42M plus a partnership with Mayo

A healthcare startup whose AI-powered symptom checker lets users check symptoms against other patients’ experiences has begun a partnership with Mayo Clinic and raised a fresh $42 million to advance its telehealth platform.  

Medtronic builds AI spinal surgery business with 7th acquisition of 2020

The medical device giant has purchased a French spinal surgery company that currently has more than 30 digital medicine products on the market in the U.S. and Europe.

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Deep learning gives stable inpatients a good night’s sleep

A new AI tool can accurately separate the patients who would do better getting restorative sleep till morning from those who, due to unstable condition, really need their vital signs checked overnight.

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‘Beleaguered’ residency directors urged to take care in adopting AI

As AI inches into the workflows of residency program directors, many may need to prepare against delegating too much of the laborious candidate-selection task to an algorithm.

US patents for AI innovations skyrocketing; IBM the top corporate AI inventor

The forward slash-shaped rise reflects broad participation from corporations, companies, businesses, organizations, individual inventors and other innovating entities.

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4 key steps toward adopting AI-aided triage at scale

Harvard researchers at Mass General Brigham have built an AI chatbot that can automatically triage patients whenever they call or show up in disaster-level numbers.  

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7 AI innovators still in the running for $1M prize from CMS

Last fall CMS whittled a field of 300-something entrant teams in its AI Health Outcomes Challenge to 25 semifinalists. This week the agency revealed seven finalist entities, one of which will claim the grand prize of up to $1 million next spring.

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New $100M kid on the minimally invasive block

A Silicon Valley maker of surgical robots is launching a venture capital arm to invest in future leaders of minimally invasive care. Inaugural ante: $100 million.

Around the web

Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals. 

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”