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Judy Mathias | September 25 2019 1:04 pm

Study: AI equal to humans in medical diagnosis

Editor’s Note When deep learning algorithms were compared with health-care professionals in classifying diseases using medical ...
Judy Mathias | September 25 2019 12:58 pm

Amazon launches Amazon Care

Editor’s Note Amazon has launched Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic, with an option for home visits from nurses, the ...
Judy Mathias | August 28 2019 1:07 pm

Sentara uses AI-based tool to predict sepsis

Editor’s Note Sentara Healthcare (Norfolk, Virginia) is using a sepsis prediction tool to help alert physicians and nurses when a ...
Judy Mathias | August 27 2019 1:51 pm

Machine learning algorithm predicts bleeding during CABG surgery

Editor’s Note A machine learning algorithm based on data from the American College of Cardiology's National Cardiovascular Data ...
Judy Mathias | August 20 2019 1:27 pm

Machine learning identifies preop risks linked to postop Medicare super-users

Editor’s Note In this study of more than 1 million Medicare patients, 4.8% were super-users of healthcare and incurred 31.7% of ...
Judy Mathias | August 14 2019 12:53 pm

AI, machine learning help unlock health data at Michigan Medicine

Editor’s Note The University of Michigan's health system has 34 artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning research ...
Cynthia Saver, MS, RN | July 24 2019 1:35 am

Legal and ethical questions temper excitement about AI--Part 2

As part of a special series on artificial intelligence (AI), OR Manager is taking a deep dive into the many facets of this new technology ...
Cynthia Saver, MS, RN | July 24 2019 1:10 am

Consider All Angles When Choosing AI Technology

This article concludes OR Manager’s special series on artificial intelligence (AI). Parts 1 and 2 (May 2019 and June 2019) introduced ...
Judy Mathias | July 22 2019 12:46 pm

Improving OR efficiency with machine learning prediction of case-time duration

Editor’s Note In this study, researchers developed service- and surgeon-specific statistical models using linear regression and ...
Judy Mathias | July 9 2019 12:11 pm

Applications, limitations of AI for fracture detection, classification

Editor’s Note Preliminary experience in the automated detection and classification of fractures using artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Judy Mathias | June 20 2019 2:21 pm

What if healthcare AI is the next asbestos?

Editor’s Note At a precision medicine conference in Boston on June 18, Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain likened the use ...
Cynthia Saver, MS, RN | June 18 2019 1:40 am

Legal and ethical questions temper excitement about AI

As part of a special series on artificial intelligence (AI), OR Manager is taking a deep dive into the many facets of this new technology ...
Cynthia Saver, MS, RN | June 18 2019 1:15 am

Interactive surgical playbook expands OR team synergy

OR leaders spend much of their day ensuring the surgery schedule runs smoothly, a task that depends on the teams within each of the ORs. ...
Judy Mathias | May 29 2019 12:47 pm

NIH, radiology societies map path for AI research in medical imaging

Editor’s Note A new report from the National Institutes of Health, Radiological Society of North America, American College of ...
Cynthia Saver, MS, RN | April 22 2019 1:40 am

How will artificial intelligence impact surgical patient care? Part 1

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be coming to your OR sooner than you think. AI is already being used to identify areas needing quality ...
Elizabeth Wood | April 22 2019 1:30 am

Artificial Intelligence Expected to Disrupt the Healthcare Industry

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to pop up in headlines nearly every day. With applications ranging from individual nutritional guidance ...
Judy Mathias | April 17 2019 12:22 pm

AI detects prostate cancer as well as experienced radiologists

Editor’s Note A new artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine improved ...
Judy Mathias | April 11 2019 1:59 pm

Using machine learning for preop prediction of postop mortality, ICU admission

Editor’s Note Machine learning can be used to improve surgical risk prediction compared to traditional risk calculators, this study ...

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