Google’s Care Studio announces Conditions, an AI-backed tool

Google is continuing its work in the EHR space, with a new AI-backed tool called Conditions, aimed at giving doctors a holistic view of a patient. The new feature will be part of Google’s clinician-facing search tool that helps organize patients’ medical records, Care Studio, its VP Paul Muret… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

National Heart Centre Singapore sets up AI research lab for cardiac imaging

The National Heart Centre Singapore has opened a research laboratory for cardiac imaging that uses artificial intelligence to detect and predict cardiovascular diseases. According to a press statement, the Cardiovascular Systems Imaging and Artificial Intelligence (CVS.AI) research laboratory is… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Apollo Hospitals launches immersive mixed reality programme

Apollo Hospitals, one of the biggest hospital chains in India, has launched a new mixed reality programme that lets patients see what happens inside their hearts. WHAT IT DOES The Apollo ProHealthDeepX shows how a patient’s risk factors for heart disease affect their heart through an immersive… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Where radiology, AI and interoperability meet

Radiology is among the busiest departments in healthcare, with radiologists spending their days poring through a non-stop barrage of images to render their expert opinions. Artificial intelligence has been making inroads into radiology in recent years. The technology is being used to assist –… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Some important questions for AI ethics and safety

The healthcare industry faces a series of pressing challenges concerning the implementation of safe and ethical artificial intelligence. But there are resources available for health care teams to help support safe and ethical AI to start them off and set a common foundation for the discussion.

Using AI and people power to combat sepsis

Sepsis, the body’s damaging over-response to an infection, affects at least 1.7 million adults in the United States every year. Early treatment is key to staying ahead of the condition, which can be life-threatening. But sometimes the clinical signs can be hard to spot – making artificial… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

AI has a role in identifying veterans who need care

In late 2020, then-HHS Secretary Alex Azar tapped Berkeley, California-based Cogitativo to help inform the Trump Administration’s vaccine distribution strategy.    The company had developed a machine learning model that could predict the probability a patient would end up in an intensive care… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

The EU grapples with the ethics of AI in healthcare

AI was deployed across multiple areas in health during the pandemic, from analysing the sound of a patient’s cough to predicting mortality. More than 4,000 scientific papers have been published on AI and COVID-19 since the pandemic began, Alessandro Blasimme, a senior scientist in the Health… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more