Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
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AMN Healthcare acquires virtual care platform for $42M

AMN Healthcare, a medical staffing firm based in Texas, has acquired a virtual care company that specializes in home health and outpatient care for $42 million.

 

Field AI tool triages victims of gun violence

In a tryout trial, the technique quickly and accurately predicted shock as well as the need for early massive transfusion and major surgery.

NLP facilitates a long, hard look at linguistic cues to mental health

Natural language processing of social media posts is useful for identifying depression, anxiety and suicidal thinking, but models trained on population data cannot discern long-term patterns in any one person’s state of mind.

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Stanford researchers say hospitals overcount pediatric COVID cases

Hospitalizations among children for COVID-19 are likely being overcounted, according to Stanford researchers.

Psychiatry turns to AI for new help with an old problem

AI is poised to help settle an argument that’s been roiling academic psychiatry for more than a century: Are bipolar disorder and schizophrenia two distinct diagnoses—or points along a single continuum?

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Duke researchers present new vaccine to prevent all future COVID-like pandemics

Researchers at Duke University are working on a vaccine that has the potential to stop future pandemics by protecting against a variety of coronavirus infections that can jump from animals to humans.

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Novel diabetes AI outperforms older algorithms, integrates with commercial EHR

A novel AI-based model for clinical decision support has bested established machine-learning models at predicting how patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus will respond to various categories of therapeutic drugs.

Cancers of unknown origin give it up to pathology AI

Researchers have developed an AI system that can differentiate primary tumors from metastatic lookalikes on routine histology slides while also helping pinpoint the sites from which the cancer sprung.

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.”