Precision Medicine

Mayo Clinic's Dr. Sonya Makhni answers key questions on creating and delivering artificial intelligence, inherent bias and the importance of risk classification systems. 

Also: NIH awarded Mount Sinai researchers $4 million to develop an artificial intelligence-powered model to detect adverse outcomes of obstructive sleep apnea.

Dr. Manish Gupta and Harshal Sanghav of the Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine discuss the challenges of AI rollouts in clinical care and review how the health system uses patient pre-performance data for surgical planning.  

Specialty centres focused on cancer and brain disorders share flagship projects and initiatives in the pipeline to provide more personalised care to individual patients.

Aside from clinical decision and diagnosis support, AI technology is also anticipated to assist with personalised treatments, clinical trials, and self health management, says Augnito founder Rustom Lawyer.

More hospitals are coming into the fold in the coming months.

"Finding out the patient is high-risk after they are diagnosed with cancer is too late," says Dr. Eric Brown, surgical oncologist and breast multidisciplinary team co-lead.

The expansion aims to connect the western and eastern islands at a distance of 3,500 kilometres.

A new law passed in New York and legislation introduced in Ohio are just two of the latest examples of a legislative push to expand insurance coverage for biomarker testing.

Also, FPT has closed a deal to exclusively distribute Nipro's blood glucose monitors in Vietnam.