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An AI system predicts when pancreatic cysts will turn cancerous
A new artificial intelligence system displayed a superhuman ability to differentiate harmful lesions from ones that pose no threat at all.
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Casey Ross
Some news out of @HopkinsMedicine this afternoon: An experimental AI system can predict when pancreatic cysts will become cancerous statnews.com/2019/07/17/an-… via @statnews
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Livongo, diabetes-coaching startup, files IPO in a test for health tech
The IPO is expected to be among the first for a new generation of slick and savvy venture-backed companies in the U.S. digital health sector.
Court documents reveal Amazon strategy for disrupting U.S. drug business
Amazon is seeking to contract directly with health plans and employers to sell precriptions through its PillPack subsidiary, according to court documents.
What if AI in health care is the next asbestos?
“I think of machine learning kind of as asbestos,” one speaker said, explaining that AI in medicine could turn out to be as harmful as it is promising.
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Casey Ross
AI is often hailed for its superhuman analytic capabilities. But what if its use in health care, skewed by bias and misguided correlations, turns out to be poisonous. Here's my latest on a thoughtful AI discussion @harvardmed yesterday: statnews.com/2019/06/19/wha… via @statnews
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China is leapfrogging the U.S. in using AI in medicine
Some business leaders have fretted that the U.S. risks losing business opportunities and investment dollars to Chinese AI companies.
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Casey Ross
In the face of an overburdened hospital system, China is surging ahead in the race to deploy AI in medicine. Huge implications for business/science/ethics. Here's my story for subscribers: statnews.com/2019/06/05/chi… via @statnews
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Raiding academia, Facebook's new hire, & the fading dream of a DNA app store
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Casey Ross
This week's STAT Health Tech is out! We look @StanfordMed's loss of top talent to tech giants, a boiling dispute over algorithmic discovery @MIT, and plenty of news on health care moves by @Apple, @facebook, @Google, and more.
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Behind the scenes of Google's effort to test AI for cancer screening
A Northwestern Medicine team spent months building “middleware” — the software equivalent of untangling endless brambles of Christmas lights.
Google's AI boosts accuracy of lung cancer diagnosis, study shows
The results underscore AI’s potential to improve lung cancer screening and help radiologists diagnose malignancies earlier and with greater accuracy.
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Casey Ross
Google unveils AI system to boost accuracy of lung cancer screening — with a crucial caveat: More study is needed to prove its value in clinical practice. statnews.com/2019/05/20/goo… via @statnews
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Departure of top Haven executive creates void at a crucial stage
Stoddard's departure is a tough blow for a company still getting its legs underneath it in a cutthroat and complicated industry.
Why we're launching this newsletter, Tel Aviv's influence, & the need for a scorecard
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Casey Ross
The first edition of STAT Health Tech is out! The news includes:
-- A new FDA clearance for @aidocmed
-- The pitch for a 'digital health scorecard'
-- And @elonmusk's quiet brain-human interface co. starts to makes some noise
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Hospitals look to computers to predict patient emergencies
The Cleveland Clinic’s goal is to give front-line clinicians notice of serious cardiac events an hour or more before they happen.
A new data aims to help AI work better for biotech — and it’s free
Recursion Pharmaceuticals released a free data set of more than 125,000 images of four different cell types collected through a microscope.
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Casey Ross
There’s a massive new data set that aims to help artificial intelligence work better for biotech... statnews.com/2019/05/06/rec… via @statnews
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Study highlights challenges using AI to personalize cancer therapy
The study reported that the algorithm got tripped up by demographic and language variations, and differences in how tumor tests were recorded in reports.
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Casey Ross
Artificial intelligence is only revolutionary in medicine in theory. This work by @fredhutch highlights that implementing it in practice takes a lot of time and effort, despite the many marketing messages to the contrary. statnews.com/2019/05/06/art… via @statnews
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Aim your baloney detector at the BS in health care
BS, long common in American discourse about politics and sports has begun creeping into health care. Here are 10 good examples of it.
5 names to know: the team leading Microsoft into health care
Over the past year, Microsoft has built a nucleus of physician executives to guide its work in health care. Here are people you’ll want to keep an eye on.
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Casey Ross
Microsoft has amassed dozens of health related patents in recent years and is working on multiple fronts (cloud, remote monitoring) to disrupt the delivery of medicine. Here are the people behind its work: statnews.com/2019/05/01/mic… via @statnews
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Primary care experiment's impact depends on answers to these questions
Here’s a quick rundown on the implications of the new federal primary care initiative and the issues to be ironed out in the months ahead.
A machine learning device, meant for chronically ill, moves into homes
The device, called Current, is already used in hospitals, but FDA clearance means it can monitor patients at home, in between visits with their doctors.
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Casey Ross
Digital health news: @US_FDA clears a remote patient monitoring device by @CurrentHealth that uses #AI to keep watch on the chronically ill in their homes statnews.com/2019/04/24/wea… via @statnews
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Medicare proposes boosting payments for CAR-T and other new therapies
The Trump administration wants to increase how much Medicare pays for CAR-T cancer therapies and similar breakthrough devices and drugs.
U.S. health officials unveil experiment to overhaul primary care
The initiative includes five payment options for providers, allowing them to take varying levels of financial risk for improving care and lowering costs.
IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery
The decision to shut down sales of Watson for Drug Discovery marks another setback in the company’s effort to apply AI to various areas of health care.
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Casey Ross
Exclusive news this morning: IBM is halting sales of its Watson AI tool to help pharma companies discover new drugs. The co’s struggle reveals the difficulty of scaling AI in medicine statnews.com/2019/04/18/ibm… via @statnews
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