Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios Health systems and physician practices are flocking to AI-powered medical scribes at an unprecedented pace to combat clinician burnout, Erin Brodwin wrote first on Axios Pro.Why it matters: Notoriously technophobic hospitals are jumping to adopt tools from Big Tech companies and Silicon Valley startups alike. Investors have flooded the zone, with AI scribes raising...
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AI models struggle in real-world medical conversations
Reviewed Harvard Medical SchoolJan 2 2025 Artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT have been touted for their promise to alleviate clinician workload by triaging patients, taking medical histories and even providing preliminary diagnoses. These tools, known as large-language models, are already being used by patients to make sense of their symptoms and medical tests results....
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Amazon One Medical injected artificial intelligence tools into its clinics this week — aimed primarily at its doctors.
The tech aims to assist Amazon’s providers by writing notes from patient visits, summarizing medical histories, drafting messages to patients and helping coordinate care. That’s supposed to reduce administrative tasks by 40 percent, according to the rollout announcement.The company’s move suggests it believes the most immediate benefits of AI in health care will be for its...
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AI models help redefine core microbiome for personalized therapies
Credit: Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.09.019 Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, along with international collaborators, have introduced a novel method for identifying the crucial set of gut microbes commonly found in humans and essential for health. The researchers, whose study was published in Cell, said the discovery offers innovative opportunities for precision nutrition and personalized therapies aimed at managing chronic diseases associated...
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Older adults wary of AI health info, struggle with misinformation
Confidence levels among adults age 50 and over that they can spot health misinformation if they came across it online. Data from the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging. Credit: University of Michigan While the vast majority of people over 50 look for health information on the internet, a new poll shows 74%...
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AI scans RNA ‘dark matter’ and uncovers 70,000 new viruses
Newly-discovered viruses live in hydrothermal vents and other extreme environments. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover 70,500 viruses previously unknown to science1, many of them weird and nothing like known species. The RNA viruses were identified using metagenomics, in which scientists sample all the genomes present in the environment without having...
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Revolutionizing cardiovascular risk assessment with AI
University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science A recent position paper in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in ophthalmology. Led by Lama Al-Aswad, Professor of Ophthalmology and Irene Heinz Given and John La Porte Given Research Professor of Ophthalmology II, of the Scheie Eye Institute, the work represents a...
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AI CAN DIAGNOSE 10 TYPES OF DEMENTIA
JULY 11TH, 2024POSTED BY BOSTON UNIVERSITY(Credit: Getty Images) TAGS : ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEMENTIAUNIVERSITY: BOSTON UNIVERSITY Researchers have developed an AI tool that can diagnose ten different types of dementia. Ten million new cases of dementia are diagnosed each year but the presence of different dementia forms and overlapping symptoms can complicate diagnosis and delivery of...
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Artificial intelligence outperforms clinical tests at predicting progress of Alzheimer’s disease
JULY 12, 2024 by University of Cambridge Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainCambridge scientists have developed an artificially-intelligent tool capable of predicting in four cases out of five whether people with early signs of dementia will remain stable or develop Alzheimer’s disease. The team say this new approach could reduce the need for invasive and costly diagnostic...
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Spotting Parkinson’s disease through AI
by Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tracking wearable sensors, filming the patients performing routine exercises, or examining their handwriting—which is better for Parkinson’s detection? Researchers at Skoltech performed a comparative study of these three patient-driven monitoring approaches based on machine learning to find out what technique is most reliable for doctors...