Search Tag: AI
2025 25 Mar
Image capture: Pre-Surgery Consultation – Patient and Doctor Discussing Medical Procedure in Clinic In a rapidly evolving healthcare environment, patient expectations and regulatory requirements demand continuous innovation and refinement in care delivery. UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center identified a key area for improvement—not in clinical...Read more
2025 03 Mar
The integration of artificial intelligence into healthcare documentation has gained traction as a potential solution to alleviate the administrative burden on healthcare professionals (HCPs). AI-powered systems, particularly generative AI and ambient intelligence, offer the promise of increased efficiency, reduced workload and improved documentation...Read more
2024 09 Dec
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare, offering innovative tools to tackle longstanding challenges in patient safety and facility security. Synectics, a leader in advanced surveillance systems, has developed the Synergy platform to deliver AI-based solutions for healthcare environments. With the introduction of Synergy Detect,...Read more
2024 12 Jun
Taiwan’s leading medical centres, the National Health Research Institute (NHRI) and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (CGMH), are advancing biomedical research and healthcare through the integration of accelerated computing and generative AI. These institutions are leveraging cutting-edge technologies to revolutionise everything from imaging to patient...Read more
2024 15 May
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly utilised in healthcare, offering potential for improved patient outcomes and streamlined clinical processes. Patient-facing conversational AI agents, such as chatbots, engage directly with patients for tasks like symptom diagnosis and appointment scheduling. Despite their benefits, concerns persist regarding...Read more
2024 22 Apr
Intensive care medicine is recognised as a promising field for implementing artificial intelligence (AI) due to the abundance of data generated in intensive care units (ICUs). However, despite the potential benefits, there is a significant gap between developed AI models and their actual clinical use. Challenges include technological issues in...Read more
2024 14 Feb
The prominence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a catalyst for economic and societal development took centre stage at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, held from 15th to 19th January 2024. Leaders emphasized the potential of technological advancements to address global challenges, stressing the importance of innovation alongside...Read more
2023 18 Sep
High calibre speakers at the MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE illuminate new methods and their practical uses Top athletes are constantly being measured and analysed, and this includes the use of innovative technologies and methods in diagnostics. The evaluation of the resulting data increasingly uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) which delivers...Read more
2022 29 Apr
Dr Bruno De Peuter, Head of Medical Imaging and Musculoskeletal Radiology Specialist at Belgian hospital Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, explains how the hospital transformed itself into a modern, well-respected, tertiary care centre. Over the past few decades, the medical imaging department at Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL) has experienced...Read more
2021 26 Nov
An overview of the role of Artificial Intelligence during the treatment process and implementation of AI algorithms to increase patient awareness and improve access to anonymised data. Artificial intelligence has been pushing itself into the digital space of the medical industry for several years. Recently, however, this process has...Read more
2021 01 Jun
Digital health has experienced a boom during the pandemic, with solutions such as AI and telemedicine being adopted with speed across Europe. However, as many instances of such adoption have been the result of temporary or emergency measures, there is a question mark over whether solutions will continue to be leveraged after the pandemic, or whether...Read more
2021 01 Jun
An overview of the latest research regarding artificial intelligence in radiology and how these findings can transform the future of the field. Key Points AI disease detection can help radiologists identify pathologies using subtle features not visible to the human eye and help prioritise images with positive findings in the read queue....Read more
2020 11 May
COVID-19 is a new and largely unknown disease, which makes it difficult for clinicians to make prognostic decisions. CoviLake Niguarda is a project aimed at creating AI algorithms and a decision support system (DSS) feeding from a datalake of all relevant patient information to support clinical decision-making on the front line. Since...Read more
2020 11 May
Summary: A radiologist working with COVID-19 patients in Russia looks at how technology has aided imaging-based diagnosis and what this could mean for future practice in grading disease severity. The pandemic of COVID-19 has presented an unprecedented challenge to modern global healthcare. Today everybody understands that diagnostic imaging...Read more
2020 11 May
Summary: Renowned surgeon and healthcare futurist Rafael Grossman speaks to HealthManagement.org on telehealth, robotic-assisted surgery and a new healthcare mindset in a post COVID-19 world. What are your most important impressions in terms of attitudes towards and implemen- tation of telemedicine in the present COVID-19 environment?...Read more
2020 09 Mar
The debate about Artificial Intelligence (AI) versus healthcare personnel shows no sign of abating. While we can safely say that the role of physicians is not under any serious threat from technology, AI will be critical in managing data for more efficient diagnosis, workflow and patient care. ‘The Future is Digital’ offers exciting views on data...Read more
2020 09 Mar
Making the right decisions, patient by patient, day by day is at the core of what every healthcare provider must do. These decisions often have to be made fast, under the pressure of extremely high workload, complex bureaucracy and long working hours. Quick and easy access to information is critical here, and digitalization can contribute...Read more
2020 09 Mar
With ageing populations on the rise and healthcare funding increasingly strained, the capability to enhance patient experience and improve clinical outcomes while also driving efficiencies will make the difference in the healthcare battleground. According to the latest data provided by the World Economic Forum, the global population will rise from...Read more
2020 09 Mar
Summary: AI holds great promise, yet also raises many ethical questions. The field of health and care has much to contribute to and a huge interest in the related technology, governance and regulatory debates. Artificial Intelligence (AI) was certainly a hotspot of attention last year. It is likely to continue to attract much attention this...Read more
2020 09 Mar
Summary: Healthcare digitalisation looks good on paper but putting it into practice is complex, challenging personnel, different departments, modalities and education, to name a few factors impacting implementation. HealthManagement.org spoke to two leading lights on how they think healthcare chiefs need to adapt, to successfully embrace the paradigm...Read more
2020 09 Mar
A recent MIT Technology Review Insights survey looked at the current and potential future applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare environment. This article discusses the survey’s findings, and looks at how these technologies are ‘re-humanizing’ healthcare, by aiding the transition from target- to value-based care models....Read more
2020 09 Mar
The results of the MIT Technology Review survey, in partnership with GE Healthcare, emphasize AI’s potential and ensure that the technology is here to stay, but its ability to overcome potential disruption must be addressed. GE Healthcare believes the solution is in packaging. By unlocking data, breaking it out of silos, and deploying it...Read more
2020 29 Jan
In 10 years, the healthcare system will be a different beast. The power of technology and data will change the way we face the current challenges driving us towards more integrated care based on population health and value, with increased patient engagement. This all means the old healthcare provision paradigm is crumbling. Not that hospitals will...Read more
2020 29 Jan
HealthManagement.org rounds up exciting developments that have all the characteristics of game-changers for healthcare. What do you think? AI Breast Cancer Diagnosis Matches Two Doctors A study suggested that AI diagnoses breast cancer from mammograms more accurately than radiologists.A computer, specially designed and trained by...Read more