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.

Health insurance giant Humana is joining forces with IBM Watson to equip Humana’s Employer Group members with a conversational AI solution. 

Transitioning to fully electronic transactions could save the healthcare industry $16.3 billion, or about 42% of existing annual spend on administrative transactions.

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.

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

Emulating finance’s use of satellite parking-lot imagery to guide investments in retail, researchers have tapped Google search patterns to helpfully predict ebbs and flows of COVID cases across the U.S.

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.

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