By Nathan Gunn, Contributor, Fierce Healthcare | August 28, 2019 The U.K.’s National Health Service announced in July a partnership with Amazon’s Alexa, giving the digital assistant permission to provide medical advice. The goal of this partnership is to reduce stress on providers by helping patients get the medical information [...]
By Benjamin Harris, Healthcare IT News | August 23, 2019 Numerous challenges will hinder AI growth in healthcare unless the industry improves, a new scientific report finds. A new report examines how under much of the veneer of process improvement and radical new discoveries in the field of medicine, the [...]
By Bernard Marr, Forbes Magazine | August 16, 2019 Babylon, a UK start-up, plans to "put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on earth" by putting artificial intelligence (AI) tools to work. Currently, the company has operations in the UK and Rwanda and hopes [...]
By Stephanie Balm, MedCity News | August 5, 2019 In the panel "The Data Problem in Scaling Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare" at the recent MedCity CONVERGE conference, experts from big pharma and health tech discussed challenges in scaling AI such as data gaps and navigating the potential ethical pitfalls of democratizing data. [...]
By Elad Walach, MedCity News | August 5, 2019 Understanding what determines accuracy is confusing, albeit necessary when it comes to evaluating artificial intelligence in radiology. The term accuracy is becoming increasingly ambiguous. Some report different metrics for accuracy, so it’s hard to compare. Some play around with the data [...]
By Heather Landi, Fierce Healthcare | August 2, 2019 One out of five patients admitted to the hospital for serious health conditions develops acute kidney injury with a more than fourfold increased likelihood of death, according to one study. DeepMind, a London-based artificial intelligence lab owned by Google parent company Alphabet, says it [...]
