AI in Healthcare

02/18/2025

‘AI tools, particularly large-language models, offer an opportunity to support clinicians in navigating the complexities’ of prescribing antibiotics.

Add this to the list of high-risk healthcare activities to which generative AI can contribute: prescribing antibiotics.

02/18/2025

The software was developed to both improve image quality and accelerate image acquisition.

The product was developed to both improve image quality and shorten image acquisition times.

02/14/2025

AMA physician survey shows increased oversight is the top regulatory action needed to increase physician confidence and adoption of AI.

02/13/2025

Rates of colorectal cancer are on the rise, most notably in younger adults, who have seen their CRC diagnoses double over the last decade.

Rates of colorectal cancer are on the rise, most notably in younger adults, who have seen CRC diagnoses double over the last decade.

02/12/2025

International AI consortium: Healthcare AI tools ‘should be as interoperable and as transferable as possible so they can benefit patients and clinicians at scale.’

An international cluster of 117 researchers from 50 countries has arrived at a consensus on six principles that, in the team’s considered view, ought to guide the use of AI across healthcare worldwide.

02/07/2025

‘Unlike chatbots and co-pilots, agentic AI has the potential to increase the productivity of knowledge workers and automate multi-step processes across business functions.’

Last summer more than 40% of 121 hospital executives surveyed said their organization had already realized a decent ROI in generative AI. However, a C-suite slice of nearly the same size said it was too soon to know for sure.

02/06/2025

Experts involved in the algorithm's development believe its time-saving potential could help improve both radiologist workflows and patient outcomes.

02/04/2025

Strengthening medical education in the areas of dHealth and AI may simultaneously reinforce students’ mastery of evidence-based medicine.

Medical students are broadly familiar with digital health technologies. Relatedly, they believe AI will play a crucial role in the future of healthcare. These are good signs for the advancement of evidence-based medicine.

01/29/2025

Large language models could be configured to act as personalized tutors in graduate medical education.

Generative AI has a bright future in medical education. That goes not only for medical schools but also for postgraduate settings in which residents and fellows do most of their learning while also caring for patients.

01/28/2025

Imaging artificial intelligence firm Rad AI raises $60 million, boosts company value to $525 million.

Rad AI

Boston-based growth equity firm Transformation Capital led the Series C funding round, which increases Rad AI’s war chest to over $140 million.

01/24/2025

‘It is critical to require or incentivize the inclusion of patients and end users into the entire development and implementation life cycle.’

Given the precarious excitement of the moment—or is it exciting precarity?—policymakers and healthcare leaders must set directives guiding not only what to do with AI but also when to do it.

01/22/2025

The technology offers measurable benefits without sacrificing insertion accuracy.

The technology offers measurable benefits without sacrificing insertion accuracy, according to new research.

01/22/2025

‘Given the proliferation of healthcare data in recent years, AI provides a solution to utilize patient data effectively, enhancing the intelligence and utility of EHRs.’

Integrating AI into the electronic medical record can make patient data more usable and dependable for end-users, according to a review of the relevant scientific literature published this month in the American Journal of Clinical and Medical Research.

01/16/2025

An advanced algorithm was trained to evaluate more than 100 different details about the inside of a patient's eye. Its ability to identify high-risk patients was comparable to more traditional techniques, exciting researchers.

01/16/2025

Swiss researchers: ‘AI has the potential to significantly alleviate healthcare staffing shortages by making the work of nurses and physicians more attractive.’

When appropriately applied in critical care settings, AI can deliver considerable value to clinical staff, hospital management and local communities. In the process the technology may help resolve persistent staffing shortages.

01/15/2025

The team hopes to develop a model that will not only estimate patients’ risk of major cardiovascular events but will inform providers on when these events may likely occur as well.

01/14/2025

‘Going forward, HHS will share national guidelines specific to health AI, create sandboxes for industry collaboration and explore the use of AI for dynamic AI risk assessment.’

HHS has thought through the ways AI can and should become an integral part of healthcare, human services and public health. Last Friday—possibly just days ahead of seating a new secretary—the agency released a detailed plan for getting there from here.

01/09/2025

Goh Ser Yoong of ISACA: The exclusion of cybersecurity teams from AI development and implementation poses significant risks to organizational security.

Close to half the world’s cybersecurity professionals, 45%, have zero involvement in projects within their respective organizations to develop, implement and govern AI solutions.