May 31, 2023
TORONTO – When the Ontario government announced an expansion of online mental health supports to help Ontarians navigate the challenges of the pandemic in 2020 – including free access to self-guided, internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) programs – an alarm bell sounded in the mind of bioethics researcher Rachel Katz (pictured).
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May 3, 2023
VANCOUVER and TORONTO – WELL Ventures a subsidiary of WELL Health Technologies Corp., a digital healthcare company, is pleased to announce the launch of a new investment program, the WELL AI Investment Program, focused on artificial intelligence and its applications in helping support healthcare providers with next generation tools.
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May 1, 2023
Why all the fuss about ChatGPT and other forms of ‘generative AI’, which are said to be a new wave of artificial intelligence? Read More
April 26, 2023
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Trillium Health Partners (THP) is set to harness the power of AI technology in healthcare in a new partnership with Toronto-based company Signal 1. The startup’s AI-based platform, called The Discharge Predictor, can forecast changes in patient care needs and help improve hospital flow.
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March 31, 2023
TORONTO – On a busy day in St. Michael’s Hospital’s surgical unit, the care team can look after upwards of 42 patients, coordinating everything from pain management to wound treatment to deciding when patients can go home. Read More
March 8, 2023
BOSTON – A new study published in PLOS ONE by a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has revealed a way to leverage artificial intelligence to detect Alzheimer’s more easily. Using deep learning, which has already been shown to successfully detect multiple diseases in data from high-quality brain magnetic resonance images (MRIs) collected in a controlled research setting, they were able to detect risk of Alzheimer’s with an accuracy of 90.2 percent, based on routinely collected clinical brain images.
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March 1, 2023
CALGARY – The Libin Cardiovascular Institute is creating a new platform to connect the rich data sources that are being collected in local cardiac clinics. More than 25,000 patients so far have had their heart imaging and other diagnostic tests linked to their entire electronic health records. The Libin Cardiovascular Institute is a joint entity of the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine and Alberta Health Services.
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February 7, 2023
During his keynote address at the recent RSNA conference in Chicago, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee – an oncologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of all Maladies – identified artificial intelligence as a key development for medicine. However, he also emphasized that doctors don’t quite trust AI, and that there’s a fair degree of skepticism about it. Read More
January 11, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO – A digital mental health company called Koko is creating an ethical flap for using GPT-3 technology without informing users. ChatGPT is a variant of GPT-3, which creates human-like text based on prompts, both created by OpenAI. Rob Morris (pictured) – co-founder of Koko, a free mental health service and nonprofit that partners with online communities to find and treat at-risk individuals – wrote in a Twitter thread on Friday that his company used GPT-3 chatbots to help develop responses to 4,000 users.
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January 4, 2023
MONTREAL – The emergency room at the University of Montreal Hospital (CHUM) is testing a new triage system using artificial intelligence that is designed to move people in need of care through the waiting room faster. Index Santé listed the CHUM as operating at 131 percent capacity in late December.
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