Artificial Intelligence

Mayo Clinic and IBM Watson Health have announced the results of a cutting-edge project putting the supercomputer to work for patient matching: Watson brought in more patients than before to participate in recent breast cancer clinical trials.

In his first State of the Clinic, Cleveland Clinic CEO Tom Mihaljevic, MD, called on the health system’s 57,000 employees around the world to focus on caring: “how we care for patients, care for each other, care for the organization, and care for our communities,” he urged.

New suite brings tools designed for doctors, clinicians and hospital managers, the company said.

Leading electronic health record vendors at HIMSS18 signaled intentions to incorporate AI and machine learning into EHRs and other tools currently being developed.

Last week, BJ-HC went to the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust to find out more about the recent Electronic Patient Record (EPR) phased roll-out programme.

The post-EHR era is well and truly here, but EHR-centric challenges are still as thorny as ever.

The research evaluated how AI-based personalized physiology analytics could be applied to wearable biosensor data to predict when a patient might be at risk of hospitalization.

Partners plan to deploy new machine learning models that predict patient risk for heart disease. 

PeriGen seeks to help physicians monitor moms while Fujifilm Medical Systems is expanding an AI research project for imaging technologies.

But experts from IEEE, UC San Diego and Health Linkages say the key is to make sure it's the "right solution for the right problem."