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AI app alerts physicians of potential stroke

 

This is from FierceHealthcare:

“The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an application that uses artificial intelligence to alert physicians of a potential stroke, signaling a notable shift in the way the agency reviews clinical decision support software used for triage.

The application, called Viz.AI Contact, uses an AI algorithm to analyze computed tomography (CT) scans and identify signs of a stroke in patients. The application notifies a neurovascular specialist via smartphone or tablet when it has identified a potential blockage in the brain, reducing the time it takes for a specialty provider to review the scans.”

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Using AI to infer patterns in disease

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David Tseng, M.D., looks at the future of artificial intelligence in medicine in a Med Page Today piece.

Among his observations:

“Some data are starting to emerge that healthcare metrics can be improved with AI, as evidenced by Emergency Department visits being deceased by AI-based mobile technology in the U.K.”

“{But} the recent dissolution of a partnership between Watson Health and MD Anderson is a reminder that translating these innovations into clinical practice is fraught with challenges. Michael Forsting’s article ‘Machine Learning Will Change Medicine‘ in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine grappled with some of these issues.

“One of the potential benefits when integrating AI into medical practice is an improvement of clinical decision-making and diagnosis. Frosting points out that rare diseases are often overlooked and biases can skew diagnostic pathways. The concept of using AI to provide clinical decision support systems for physicians has been studied in some medical specialties with varying degrees of effectiveness. The goal is to provide automation of certain physician cognitive tasks during a medical workup to improve time and accuracy to diagnosis.”

“There is potential for AI to do more than just automate the processes for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The true power comes from how computing could potentially transcend conventional ways of thinking about disease and medicine. AI can integrate and infer from a much larger dataset than any human can, discerning patterns that are difficult to appreciate from a human perspective.”

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A look at AI’s future impact on healthcare

Kapila Ratnam, a partner at NewSpring Capital, speculates in a Med City News piece about the possible impacts of artificial intelligence on healthcare.

Among her observations:

 

“In the short term, AI has immediate applicability within the administration and operation of a hospital or healthcare system. Think in terms of supply chain and inventory management within a hospital. For example, AI can be used to ensure a surgical room is correctly stocked with appropriate inventory based on the series of surgeries scheduled to be performed in the room that day. Additionally, inventory could be automatically tracked with an algorithm that is able to assess a surgeon’s needs and send instructions to a robot that can pick up and deliver appropriate supplies to the surgical room at the beginning of a day….”

“From a clinical care delivery perspective, AI is already presenting itself, albeit in the early stages, with the ability to provide clinical decision support (CDS) to physicians. With the amount of data, research and literature published on a daily basis, it’s humanly impossible for a specialist to digest it all. However, a sophisticated AI system can be designed to scan the latest and greatest data, combine research with known medical information on a patient, and provide the overseeing physician with options on optimum care for this patient – creating a truly personalized experience….”

”Additionally, we are now in a phase where technology has surpassed the ability of a human to diagnose disease accurately, so it’s very possible we will see the impact of AI in patient diagnoses within the next several years. ”

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How AI will transform medicine

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Robert Wachter, M.D., author of The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, looks at 12 ways artificial intelligence will transform medicine in this Hospitals & Health Networks piece.

Healthcare has been artificially shielded from that business model of  what the economist Joseph Schumpter in the ’40s called “creative destruction, ” writes Dr. Wachter.

But no more.

“The incentives to buy high-functioning technology systems will be the same as for other businesses in competitive markets: namely, the price for not doing so will be swift Schumpeterian death in the marketplace.”


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