Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has teamed up with technology company Microsoft to develop new healthcare delivery models, the companies announced Jan. 15.

Two new lawsuits have been filed against Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, the fourth and fifth malpractice complaints involving heart transplants at the Houston hospital since the Houston Chronicle and ProPublica exposed problems with its transplant program last year.

A University of Vermont-led research team combined wearable and AI technology to quickly and accurately detect internalizing disorders, like anxiety and depression, in young children, according to a study published in PLOS One.

Scientists at the University of Surrey in Guildford, England, developed a tool that uses machine learning to identify and treat urinary tract infections at early stages in dementia patients, according to a study published in PLOS One.

The radiology department at the Antwerp University Hospital in Belgium has incorporated an Aidoc tool that uses AI to help radiologists make faster diagnoses from CT scans, the university announced Wednesday, Jan. 16.

IBM is planning to use AI and machine learning to better understand Parkinson’s disease after being awarded a grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.

Duke researchers have been awarded a grant worth more than $196,000 to address the need of explainability features in AI-based, clinical decision support software versus the need to protect trade secrets for the technology—an issue researchers say has become an emerging problem in AI-enabled healthcare delivery.

AI may be better at spotting cervical cancer and precancer after a study found a deep learning algorithm was more accurate at recognizing the disease than human doctors.