Artificial Intelligence

Health leaders contemplate the key features of a strong, data-driven response to a health crisis at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 Middle East Digital Event.

 Financial support has been awarded to 13 projects which have digital tools and AI at the heart of their approaches.

The funding will support 15 innovative AI projects ranging from early cancer detection to clinical support and wearable medical devices.

Tools such as artificial intelligence and machine learning will support patient mobility, and associated data, in the future, says Sibu Siddique, VP of Digital Transformation and Customer Success at GE Digital.

The partnership will use de-identified patient data to zero in on factors that worsen COVID-19 outcomes among certain groups.

Abdulaziz Alkhlaif, CIO of Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Mishari Hospital, discusses data transformation, artificial intelligence and the next generation of patient portals in Saudi Arabia.

An Intel survey of healthcare decision-makers suggests great excitement for more widespread artificial intelligence and machine learning adoption, but also some skepticism.

Automating risk stratification kept patients out of the ER, giving financial incentive to move to an alternative payment model.

Researchers say the new tools, developed using EHR data from the pandemic's first wave, can forecast short- and medium-term risks for patients over the course of their hospitalizations.

This week's top stories include the Supreme Court seeming willing to keep the Affordable Care Act, Google Cloud unveiling AI tools for analyzing unstructured medical text, and Epic customers gaining access to a COVID-19 risk prediction model.