machine learning

A new machine learning approach may find treatment options for COVID-19

By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance News When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, doctors and researchers rushed to find effective treatments, and since developing new drugs takes time, there was little of it to spare. In the short term, the most expedient option was to repurpose existing drugs. The subject drew the interest…

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Machine learning can give healthcare workers a ‘superpower’

By Bill Siwicki for Healthcare IT News With healthcare organizations around the world leveraging cloud technologies for key clinical and operational systems, the industry is building toward digitally enhanced, data-driven healthcare. And unstructured healthcare data, within clinical documents and summaries, continues to remain an important source of insights to support clinical and operational excellence. But there…

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Medical schools falling short in educating students on machine learning

By Greg Slabodkin for Health Data Management While healthcare is experiencing an explosion of interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning, medical schools must do a better job of educating future clinicians about the technology. That’s the contention of researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine, who published a perspective article on Thursday in…

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