October 30, 2023 - Today, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) that establishes guardrails for the technology to ensure that it is “safe, secure, and trustworthy,” according to a statement from the White House.
The executive order’s standards for AI are focused on promoting safety and security; protecting...
October 30, 2023 - According to research presented at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2023, a machine learning (ML) tool can accurately estimate patient-specific prognoses for thyroid, pancreatic, and breast cancer.
Current methods to predict cancer patients’ survival rates rely mostly on cancer stage, which the researchers indicated...
October 26, 2023 - The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) established the Center for Population Health Data Science this week in an effort to improve the city’s public health data infrastructure.
The center’s work aims to effectively link and leverage healthcare, public health, and social service data.
“Data is much more...
October 24, 2023 - Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool capable of accurately identifying the risk of blood clots in pediatric patients, but found that clinicians often hesitated to follow the tool’s recommendations.
Blood clots are rare in pediatric patients, but patients who do develop...