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AI-driven psychotherapy not a cure-all, researcher says

May 31, 2023


Rachel KatzTORONTO – 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). Read More

WELL launches investment program for AI innovators

May 3, 2023


Hamed Shahbazi 2020VANCOUVER 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. Read More

New wave of generative AI is appearing in healthcare

By Jerry Zeidenberg

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

Trillium Health tests Signal 1’s patient flow platform

April 26, 2023


Craig CampbellMISSISSAUGA, 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. Read More

AI-powered tool on St. Michael’s surgical unit helps to improve care

By Robyn Cox

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

AI model can more accurately detect Alzheimer’s

March 8, 2023


Matthew LemingBOSTON – 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. Read More

New platform to track cardiac data, predict heart failure

March 1, 2023


Dr James WhiteCALGARY – 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. Read More

Siddhartha Mukherjee points to problems in Deep Learning

By Jerry Zeidenberg

February 7, 2023


Feb2023-Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Furor over use of ChatGPT in mental healthcare

January 11, 2023


Rob MorrisSAN 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. Read More

CHUM to use AI to reduce overcrowding in ERs

January 4, 2023


Dr Elyse Berger-PelletierMONTREAL – 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. Read More

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