We hear about the worsening nursing shortage today, but what many people don’t realize is that there is not a shortage of applicants. Instead, nursing schools are grappling with the challenges of limited capacity,…
By Shania Kennedy
March 04, 2024 – Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and UPMC have developed a smartphone application that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose ear infections, specifically acute otitis media (AOM), in…
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The rising popularity of artificial intelligence in healthcare is highlighting the problem that a computational model achieving super-human clinical performance at its training sites may perform substantially worse at new sites. In this perspective,…
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Previous articles in this series have shown how generative AI can be used for administrative and back-office functions in health care. Now we’ll look at how models are trained for these specific purposes.
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For years, healthcare industry experts have argued that dentistry remains a decade behind the rest of the healthcare field when it comes to the adoption of innovative technology. Financial constraints, a lack of time…
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By Shania Kennedy
February 23, 2024 – Researchers from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) demonstrated that OpenAI’s Generative Pre-Training–Model 4 (GPT-4)can match, or in some cases outperform, ophthalmologists in the…
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A major barrier to deploying healthcare AI is trustworthiness. One form of trustworthiness is a model’s robustness across subgroups: while models may exhibit expert-level performance on aggregate metrics, they often rely on non-causal features,…
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Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to have significant potential in few-shot learning across various fields, even with minimal training data. However, their ability to generalize to unseen tasks in more complex fields,…
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For the past 20 years or so, I’ve volunteered to work on Super Bowl Sunday so that my colleagues who are die-hard football fans or longstanding party hosts can do their thing. If I’m…
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Syra Health, a healthcare technology company that provides tools to analyze population health, announced it secured a third contract in Virginia to help staff Fairfax County’s healthcare workforce. The Indiana-based company offers workforce management, including…
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