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UK study: public opinion risks slowing broad AI implementation

BY Jeff Rowe | August 28, 2019

While chatbots can provide instant responses to health-related inquiries from patients, for example, the study found public opinion remains wary when it comes to accepting the accuracy of the information given.

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Inventory control vendor adds AI to enhance supply chain cost management

BY Jeff Rowe | August 27, 2019

As supply chain costs continue to rise, the need to reduce waste and optimize supplies throughout the enterprise and care continuum has never been more urgent.

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‘Clean’ and unbiased Big Data key to effective AI algorithms

BY Jeff Rowe | August 21, 2019

AI algorithms developed using Big Data could help liberate providers to care more directly for their patients, say researchers, but developers need to guard against replicating potential data biases.

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How AI will change the way medicine is taught

BY Jeff Rowe | August 20, 2019

If more AI in healthcare means docs will have to spend less time gathering information, says one medical educator, then that should give them more time interacting with patients with empathy and compassion.

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AI-driven snakebots help surgeons peer around patients' corners

BY Jeff Rowe | August 19, 2019

AI-driven robots operating on human brains? Perhaps not as futuristic as you think.

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Survey: many healthcare execs still unclear about uses for AI

BY Jeff Rowe | August 16, 2019

The digitization of healthcare has given rise to new administrative processes that in turn have raised operational costs across hospitals and healthcare systems, and AI can help executives get those costs under control.

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UK’s NHS launches national AI lab

BY Jeff Rowe | August 14, 2019

Among other things, NHS officials expect AI to help identify patients who could be more easily treated in the community, thus helping patients to receive treatment closer to home.

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Expert: AI’s future is big, but it can help providers in little ways right now

BY Jeff Rowe | August 13, 2019

Expecting the rise of AI and actually experiencing it are two different realities, says one stakeholder, noting the trick is to know what AI can do now while preparing for what it will do in the future.

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AI in the home: a healthcare revolution

BY Jeff Rowe | August 08, 2019

AI and other technologies make possible an array of healthcare advances, but together they also constitute the viable basis of a self-care revolution.