The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has signed a five-year deal with San Francisco, CA-based Flow Health to build a medical knowledge graph with deep learning to inform medical decision-making and train artificial intelligence (AI) to personalize care plans. Flow Health is building the world’s largest knowledge graph of medicine and genomics from over 30 petabytes of longitudinal clinical data drawn from VA records on 22 million veterans spanning over 20 years. All patient information
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Chinese Search Engine Launches AI-Powered Bot for Doctors & Patients
Chinese search engine Baidu Inc., today launched Melody the Medical Assistant, an AI-powered conversational bot that helps doctors gather information from patients about their medical conditions. Baidu Melody is designed to save doctors and patients time in online discussions and provide relevant, contextual information to doctors to assist with recommendations and treatment options. The announcement was made at a Baidu Health and AI Workshop held today in Beijing. Melody is available
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Can Artificial Intelligence Reduce “Notification Overload” for Clinicians?
One of the unintended consequences of moving healthcare onto EHRs has been an increase in time spent reviewing a much-increased volume of messages for the clinician. EHRs were supposed to simplify and streamline the in-office and in-hospital workflows, but what has happened instead has been “notification overload.” A recent article published in JAMA showed that, for primary care physicians, managing EHR notifications costs about an extra hour of work per day. In a fee-for-service environment,
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Can AI Reduce The Prior Authorization Burden in Healthcare?
One of the most frustrating elements of the current healthcare environment is the administrative burden of prior authorizations for medications and procedures. It is a frustration for providers, for patients, and for payers. Is there any way to solve this dilemma?For physicians, an estimated 20 hours per week is spent in prior authorization activities, costing an average of $83,000 in excess annual overhead per physician. Is there an actual benefit for this effort? Most physicians say that
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XPrize, IBM Watson Launch $5M Artificial Intelligence Competition
XPRIZE has teamed up with IBM Watson to launch IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, a $5 million, four-year global competition challenging teams to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to tackle the world’s greatest challenges.The $5M prize will focus on creating scalable AI apps that benefit consumers and businesses across a multitude of disciplines including healthcare, education, energy & environment, global development and
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Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Patient Engagement?
A recent article in The Commonwealth Fund blog, “Envisioning a Digital Health Advisor,” raises the question of being able to use smartphone apps to get real-time, accurate and personalized guidance for health concerns. While one can envision the convenience, affordability and peace of mind that would result from their use, such services face a number of hurdles before they become reality. As a result, the “digital revolution” has not yet greatly affected most people’s interactions with the
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Your.MD Launches AI-Powered Doctor Diagnosis on Facebook Messenger Via Chatbot
Your.MD, a London-based company that provides medical guidance through artificial intelligence has announced the launch of OneStop Health- a one-stop-shop in digital health to allow people to take full control of each stage of their health issues: from understanding their symptoms to finding the best treatment - all via a chatbot.Now available on Facebook Messenger and WeChat, OneStop Health empowers mobile users to find the safest and most suitable health service providers and products. The
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How Close Are We To AI-Automated Healthcare?
Editor's Note: Alex Meshkin is the CEO of Flow Health. Flow Health provides longitudinal care plan coordination and chronic care management services built on top of its platform, which is The Operating System for Value-Based CareSM. Follow him on Twitter at @AlexMeshkinWe have seen incredible progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) over the past few years, especially through the application of deep learning algorithms. AI systems will get even better as more data is
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This Biotech Startup Hopes to Cure Cancer with Artificial Intelligence
Imagine devoting fifteen years to an important pursuit and pouring unbelievable amounts of money into it, all the while facing a failure rate of 95 percent. That’s the disheartening reality for pharmaceutical companies, which throw billions of dollars every year toward drugs that likely will not work – and then go back to the drawing board and do it all over again. There has to be a better way.
That’s where Berg comes in. Backed by billionaire real estate magnate Carl Berg, the promising
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10 Ways Artificial Intelligence Could Make Me a Better Doctor
Editor's Note: Bertalan Mesko, MD, PhD is a medical futurist who envisions the next trends for companies and governments in order to make sure a mutually positive relation between the human touch and innovative technologies will rule the future of healthcare. He is an international speaker, consultant, geek physician with PhD in genomics, and founder of Webicina.com. He is the author of the recent book, "The Guide to the Future of Medicine”.
I was watching the movie Her for the second
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