Healthcare · Wed 11 Nov

Healthcare AI refers to software and machine learning systems deployed for patient care, diagnostics, drug discovery, and clinical administration. Truncated covers clinical trial results, software approvals, hospital adoptions, regulatory policies, and data privacy issues.

Yesterday · Wed 11 Nov

Drug ads can subtly sway AI medical treatment recommendations

AI-generated summary Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published a study examining whether pharmaceutical advertisements can influence treatment recommendations from models developed by companies including Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The study found that the presence of an ad increased selections of the advertised drug in AI responses across thirty-three clinical scenarios.

Also covered by mountsinai.org

Using wearables to enable cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) risk profiling for personalized coaching

AI-generated summary Google Research introduces an investigational machine learning framework that translates passive wearable signals into a modifiable coachable health age to track early cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic health. Google Research says the framework uses an action-conditioned world model to simulate personalized 12-week what-if habit trajectories and expands to routine blood biomarkers.

Dario Amodei says AI will cure cancer and Alzheimer's in a decade. Doctors aren't buying it.

AI-generated summary Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that artificial intelligence will cure cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness in less than a decade during a roadshow video. Doctors, researchers, and biotech executives questioned the feasibility and motivation of the prediction on social media, calling the timeline unrealistic.

Also covered by TechSpot

XpertDox Raises $20M Series A led by Savant Growth to Scale AI Medical Coding for Healthcare Providers

AI-generated summary XpertDox raised a $20 million Series A investment round led by Savant Growth to scale its artificial intelligence medical coding platform for healthcare providers. The XpertCoding platform automates medical coding by turning clinical documentation in electronic health records into accurate coded data without manual intervention.

Also covered by Unite.AI