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Google’s AI firm targets kidney disease, draws critics

BY Jeff Rowe | July 30, 2019

Working with the VA, the DeepMind team applied AI technology to a de-identified electronic health record dataset collected from a network of over a hundred VA sites.

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Fujifilm aims at portable ultrasounds with Partners HealthCare

BY Jeff Rowe | July 30, 2019

Through the new collaboration, the collective clinical and technical expertise of the organizations will be harnessed to advance the field of point-of-care ultrasound.

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AI: promise for the future, but ready right now

Too much of the current narrative around AI remains ‘futuristic,’ says one tech stakeholder, as there are many important solutions the latest in AI technology can provide healthcare right now.

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Apple watch plus AI equals better doc notes for Texas providers

BY Jeff Rowe | July 25, 2019

To optimize the impact of health IT, collecting data should not be difficult, and with technologies such as AI that provide intelligent automation, healthcare organizations are beginning to explore new opportunities.

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3 ways AI is helping doctors see better

BY Jeff Rowe | July 24, 2019

While so much of AI’s promise for healthcare lies in the future, one need not look too far to see how much it’s a concrete reality right now. 

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VA adds director to build AI-enhanced care programs for veterans

BY Jeff Rowe | July 23, 2019

Among other recent developments, Gil Alterovitz aims to bring imaging diagnostics with deep learning into the VA’s toolkit.

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NHS to roll AI into nationwide preventive care initiative

BY Jeff Rowe | July 22, 2019

As part of the initiative, NHS will work to enable individuals to choose how and when they want to share their personal information for the purposes of personalized predictive healthcare services.

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How AI could help the doctor-patient relationship

BY Jeff Rowe | July 19, 2019

Physicians can do their best for patients when patients are forthcoming with all clinically pertinent information, and AI can help them get it.

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Wanted: good, clean data to help AI achieve its promise

BY Jeff Rowe | July 18, 2019

Among other things, says one stakeholder, AI could take onerous reporting requirements from physicians’ workloads, but only if the data supplies the AI is learning on are accurate and clean.