In the first edition of MedAI Roundup, which highlights the latest news and research in healthcare-related artificial intelligence each month:
- NYU Langone’s AI Initiative: NYU Langone introduced a tailored version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and organized an AI “prompt-a-thon” where a team of employees experimented with the tool.
- JAMA’s AI Focus: JAMA released an editorial detailing its objectives for publishing research on AI in healthcare. The focus areas include clinical care, patient-centered care, healthcare quality, fairness in AI algorithms, medical education, clinician experience, and global solutions.
- Addressing Biased Clinical Data: A suggestion in the New England Journal of Medicine emphasized viewing biased clinical data as “artifacts” to recognize patterns of inequity in healthcare. This perspective can offer innovative ways to use AI for detecting disparities.
- AI in Cancer Treatment: ChatGPT was tested for recommending cancer treatment regimens based on National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines. Approximately one-third of the AI chatbot’s responses did not align with the guidelines.
- Innovative AI Solutions:
- An AI model successfully predicted the onset of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus or gastric cardia in Veterans Health Administration patients.
- “Smart” pants named NeuroSkin, powered by AI, assisted a stroke patient in the U.K. to walk independently by stimulating her paralyzed leg.
- HCA Healthcare is partnering with Google Cloud to employ generative AI technology for tasks like clinical documentation.
- Abridge will collaborate with Epic to introduce a generative AI feature for note-taking at Emory Health in Georgia.
- FDA granted a “De Novo” approval to Viz.ai for its AI algorithm, the Viz HCM Module, designed to detect hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.