Artificial Intelligence

Biden Issues Executive Order to Ensure Safe, Secure AI Development

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...


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American College of Surgeons Develops Cancer Survival Prediction Tool

by Shania Kennedy

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,...

NLP Tool Flags Signs of Depression, Anxiety in Healthcare Workers

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine have demonstrated that a natural language processing (NLP) tool can effectively detect pandemic-related signs of anxiety and...

Cedars-Sinai Deep Learning Tool Accurately Predicts Atrial Fibrillation

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai demonstrated that a deep learning (DL) algorithm can accurately detect signs of atrial fibrillation in patients without symptoms, according to...

AI Tool Predicts Blood Clot Risk in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients

by Shania Kennedy

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...

Mount Sinai Develops AI Algorithm to Estimate Brain Age Acceleration

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Mount Sinai have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can estimate histopathological brain age, predict age at death, and identify areas of the brain vulnerable to...

Washington University in St. Louis Launches AI for Health Institute

by Shania Kennedy

The McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has established the AI for Health Institute, which will bring together clinical researchers and artificial intelligence experts...

Locally Run Large Language Models May Help Preserve Patient Privacy

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (NIH CC) found that a locally run, privacy-preserving large language model (LLM) may be suitable for labeling radiography reports,...

Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate Announces Fourth Health Tech Cohort

by Shania Kennedy

Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate has announced its fourth cohort of health tech startups to participate in the program, which is designed to support the validation and clinical readiness of each...

AI Pain Recognition Tool Detects Pain Before, During and After Surgery

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers presenting at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2023 annual meeting demonstrated that an automated pain recognition system leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) may be capable of detecting pain in...

Artificial Intelligence Model May Help Predict Future Viral Outbreaks

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the University of Oxford have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool capable of predicting how a virus could evolve to escape the immune...

Predictive Models May Negatively Impact the Performance of Future Tools

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine and the University of Michigan have found that the deployment of predictive analytics tools may influence the predictive capabilities of...

Generative Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Launched at HLTH 2023

by Shania Kennedy

A group of over 30 founding partners launched the Vision, Alignment, Learning, Implementation, and Dissemination of Validated Generative AI in Healthcare (VALID AI) collaborative this week at HLTH to...

$2.8M NIH Grant to Support Development of Kidney Transplant AI

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at University of Florida (UF) Health have been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based clinical decision...

AI Tool May Improve Tumor Removal Accuracy During Breast Cancer Surgery

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Surgery, the Joint UNC-North Carolina State University (NCSU) Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the UNC Lineberger...

University of Texas Awarded Funding for Disease Relapse Prediction AI

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) have been awarded a $450,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to develop a machine learning-based model to predict...

AI Achieves High Diagnostic Accuracy in Virtual Primary Care Setting

by Shania Kennedy

Diagnostic agreement between providers and an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool was high within the context of virtual primary care, according to a study published recently in Mayo Clinic...

ML Predicts Suicidal Ideation Among Sexual, Gender Minority Individuals

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers demonstrated that a machine learning (ML) model could effectively predict short- and long-term suicidal ideation in sexual and gender minority individuals using ecological momentary...

CDC Awards to Establish National Infectious Disease Forecasting Network

by Shania Kennedy

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded roughly $262.5 million in grant funding over the next five years to 13 institutions to help establish a national infectious disease and...

Breaking Down 3 Types of Healthcare Natural Language Processing

by Shania Kennedy

Healthcare generates massive amounts of data as patients move along their care journeys, often in the form of notes written by clinicians and stored in EHRs. These data are valuable to improve health outcomes but are often difficult to...