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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What’s that you say? AI is in hearing aids—and AR isn’t far behind

A hearing aid manufacturer founded in the 1950s has introduced what it says is the first use of AI to optimize auditory assistance for the hearing impaired in real time.

In Tar Heel country, electronic ‘greeters’ use AI to monitor mask wearing, social distancing

If you’re failing to keep social distance, wear a mask and wear it properly, a red X lights up as a reminder. If you’re doing things right, it’s a green check mark affirming your compliance.

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Emerging hospital technologies well-funded, widely distributed in Europe

The European Union is allocating many millions of euros to a “hospital of the future” project that’s led from the U.K. and piloting numerous tech-based hospital enhancements in six European cities.

Initiative aims to leverage technology in mitigating healthcare disparities

AI is a key part of the plan as two groups with little in common come together over health disparities that have only been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Physician/AI aficionado dissects Medicare’s first agreement to pay for use of AI

Early this month CMS agreed to reimburse hospitals for using the first AI software to qualify for Medicare’s NTAP mechanism. Healthcare AI watchers have been unpacking the intricacies of the development ever since.

FDA’s new digital-health ‘center of excellence’ shows the shape it will take

The FDA has an eye trained on healthcare AI as it establishes a major operation to help advance the state of the art across digital health.

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Drones deliver AEDs in times of need

In some instances, the drone helped get an AED on the scene nearly three minutes faster than normal. 

Stanford researchers: AmI offers an ‘extraordinary opportunity to illuminate the dark spaces of healthcare’

Crossing machine learning with low-cost infrared sensors, AI developers are pushing the envelope on ambient intelligence, or AmI, for use in healthcare.

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