Low-back imaging and interventions are often named among healthcare’s iffiest expenses due to the hit-or-miss predictability of the outcomes.

Hawaii is the state with the best overall access to healthcare, achieving high scores for percentages of residents with a personal physician and children with a medical home while minimizing unmet needs for mental healthcare and doctor avoidance due to cost.

Three machine learning algorithms have identified patients likely to suffer extreme pain following surgery with about 80% accuracy each.

Nearly 90% of U.S. gastroenterologists are open to using AI for help performing high quality colonoscopies. And of these, 85% believe that computer-assisted polyp detection (CADe) stands to improve their endoscopic performance.

Along with the unprecedented challenges COVID-19 has brought to U.S. hospitals in 2020 are some older sore spots that the pandemic has only inflamed.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a bad dream in the truest sense of the word—and AI helps to prove it, a team of researchers assert in a study published online Oct. 1 in Frontiers in Psychology.

Researchers at Columbia University have developed a machine learning algorithm that identifies and predicts gender-based differences in adverse reactions to drugs. 

Amazon-owned PillPack and other players face a new online pharmacy competitor with UnitedHealth’s acquisition of startup company divvyDOSE.