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.

AI finds pre-diabetes using only age, waist size—and Darwinism

Researchers in Italy have demonstrated a no-cost, AI-based technique for detecting the presence of previously undiagnosed abnormalities in blood sugar stability.

AI picks out blood biomarkers for autism

If verified in additional trials, the advance will facilitate care planning much earlier than the current average age of diagnosis, 4 years old.

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CVS Health to re-enter ACA marketplace

CVS Health, which owns health insurance giant Aetna, will return to the Obamacare marketplace to sell individual insurance plans in 2022, the company announced during a fourth-quarter earnings call.

Everyday people photos equip AI for skin-cancer screening

AI can be taught to flag possible skin cancers on photos taken with smartphone cameras—and the images can be ordinary “people shots” rather than closeups of suspicious lesions.

Machine learning helps guide difficult decisions on inpatient transfers

The tool makes the call based on factors readily available to busy clinicians, respecting their workflows while helping patients and families decide whether moving to access a stepped-up care setting would fit well with their aims and values.

AI exposes ‘severe’ underestimation of COVID prevalence at the hands of antibody surveys

Two bioinformatics experts have used AI to accurately estimate regional COVID infection rates, aka seroprevalence, in all 50 states and 50 hard-hit countries.

New academic institute looks to ‘radically transform health systems away from hospitals and clinics’

The plan is to draw health data from every available source to continuously nudge individuals toward not only appropriate medical care but also healthier lifestyles.

In silico AI needs just minutes to refine development of mutation-busting vaccines

Computer engineers have produced a deep learning framework for very quickly fine-tuning vaccines to fight emerging variant strains of COVID-19.

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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.”