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Takeaways from RAISE Health Symposium Now Available
RAISE HealthTakeaways from RAISE Health Symposium Now Available
A report summarizing key takeaways from the RAISE Health Symposium earlier this year has been posted online, capturing comments from participants in a series of working groups held on May 14. More than 60 experts in health care, research, academia, technology, public policy, and advocacy discussed issues ranging from equitable resource access for AI development to the importance of human-centered design and critical ethical issues facing the biomedical field. The report also outlines steps that need to be taken now to ensure the successful integration of AI in biomedicine over the next decade and beyond.
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James Landay: Paving a Path for Human-Centered Computing
The Stanford HAI co-director has blazed a trail by keeping humans at the center of emerging technologies.
- Stanford Medicine Magazine
AI steps into the looking glass with synthetic data
Synthetic data may seem like an oxymoron or even an impossibility, but medical AI experts explain how they’re using it to solve medical problems.
- Stanford Medicine Magazine
Leaders look toward responsible, ethical AI for better health
Some of Stanford University’s guiding lights on matters AI and ethics share insight about how to ensure the change AI brings is for the better.
RAISE Health Newsletter
Issue #7 | October 15, 2024
The summary paper coming out of the 2024 RAISE Health Symposium, the complexities of adjusting for race in clinical algorithms, AI-guided workflows will have to pass the “FURM” test to be used in clinical settings, an upcoming seminar on bridging gaps between medical foundation models and clinics, and what “model deterioration” means.
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AI in Medicine: Can GPT-4 Improve Diagnostic Reasoning?
A recent Stanford study explores GPT-4's potential in aiding diagnostic reasoning. Conducted by the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, it tested GPT-4's ability to assist doctors in diagnosing complex cases.
Education scholar uses AI to help medical students hone diagnostic skills
GSE doctoral student Marcos Rojas is piloting a web-based platform that simulates real-world interactions between a physician and a patient.
How AI improves physician and nurse collaboration
A new artificial intelligence model helps physicians and nurses work together at Stanford Hospital to boost patient care.
The Next Era of Assessment: Building a Trustworthy Assessment System
Assessment in medical education has evolved through a sequence of eras each centering on distinct views and values. These eras include measurement (e.g., knowledge exams, objective structured clinical examinations), then judgments (e.g., workplace-based ...
A brief glossary of artificial intelligence terms
From AI to machine learning to training data: A brief glossary of artificial intelligence terms.
A surprising revelation about ChatGPT’s contribution
ChatGPT’s responses to queries about handling a difficult doctor-patient conversation shows one physician what we can learn from such tools.
ChatGPT Out-scores Medical Students on Complex Clinical Care Exam Questions
A new study shows AI's capabilities at analyzing medical text and offering diagnoses — and forces a rethink of medical education.
These are the tools for providing top-notch diabetes care to everyone
Using AI, continuous glucose monitors, and an equity approach, diabetes care could be saving many more lives, Stanford Medicine researchers say.
Large language models in the clinic: AI enters the physician-patient mix
Stanford Medicine doctors and researchers are modifying existing chatbots to perform well in a frontier of AI-enhanced medicine: the doctor-patient interaction.
Tapping AI to quickly predict mental crises and get help
New AI tools are creating unprecedented possibilities in psychiatry with tools that can predict someone’s mental state in time to intervene.
AI assists clinicians in responding to patient messages at Stanford Medicine
Stanford Medicine study shows that large language models can lend a hand to clinicians in responding to patient email messages.
Ambient artificial intelligence technology to assist Stanford Medicine clinicians with taking notes
Stanford Medicine integrates AI-powered listening technology that takes notes for health care providers, allowing them to spend more time with patients and less time on administrative tasks.
Shriti Raj: Designing Tech That Helps People Lead Healthier Lives
Stanford HAI faculty fellow says there’s a better way to make health data useful for patients and clinicians.
‘Smart speaker’ shows potential for better self-management of Type 2 diabetes
A new study led by Stanford Medicine indicates that an AI app can help Type 2 diabetic patients manage their blood glucose levels.
Organizational Factors in Clinical Data Sharing for Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
This qualitative study examines issues identified by representatives from different health sector organizations on the development of artificial intelligence and sharing of health data.
Can art aid in healing? Portrait Project is using AI, traditional art to find out
Stanford Medicine researchers are helping patients use AI image-generation software as part of a unique study that aims to quantify how creating art aids patients in their recovery.
Using Machine Learning to Predict Rare Diseases
The POPDx model eliminates the need for large patient datasets, giving it the potential to help patients with uncommon diseases.
Could Self-Supervised Learning Be a Game-Changer for Medical Image Classification?
Supervised methods for training medical image models aren’t scalable. A new review highlights the potential of self-supervised learning.
App recognizes suspected mpox rashes using artificial intelligence
Researchers were able to devise an app that can determine which skin lesions are caused by mpox with an accuracy of 90%.
Stanford Medicine-led study finds heart shape can predict cardiac disease
While cardiac sphericity was the focus of Stanford Medicine-led research, the possibility of data science expanding the reach of biomedical science was its true core, researchers say.
How Well Do Large Language Models Support Clinician Information Needs?
Stanford experts examine the safety and accuracy of GPT-4 in serving curbside consultation needs of doctors.
AI May Help Ensure the Medical Privacy of Adolescent Patients
Natural language processing assists pediatricians in drawing the fine line between a teen’s right to privacy and a parent’s right to know.
How Can We Better Regulate Health AI?
HAI Associate Director Curt Langlotz explains the current state of health regulation and where we need to move to protect patients and better assist doctors.
Who’s at Fault when AI Fails in Health Care?
Hospitals are increasingly adopting AI tools for patient care. They need to be thinking about liability.
Algorithm Bias and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care
This Special Communication presents a conceptual framework and guiding principles for mitigating and preventing bias in health care algorithms to promote health and health care equity.
AI experts talk about its potential promise, pitfalls at Stanford Medicine conference
Leaders from health care, industry and government convened virtually to find ways to ensure artificial intelligence improves care for caregivers as well as patients.
Promoting Equity In Clinical Decision Making: Dismantling Race-Based Medicine
As the use of artificial intelligence has spread rapidly throughout the US health care system, concerns have been raised about racial and ethnic biases built into the algorithms that often guide clinical decision making.
AI, medicine and race: Why ending 'structural racism' in health care now is crucial
Health care providers must reckon with inherent race-based biases in medicine, which can reinforce false stereotypes in algorithms and lead to improper treatment recommendations or late diagnoses.
Ensuring the Fairness of Algorithms that Predict Patient Disease Risk
Decision-support tools for helping physicians follow clinical guidelines are increasingly using artificial intelligence, highlighting the need to remove bias from underlying algorithms.
Hidden Racial Variables? How AI Inferences of Race in Medical Images Can Improve—or Worsen—Health Care Disparities
Stanford health care AI scholar discusses implications of the ability of AI to predict the race or ethnicity of patients, based solely on medical images such as X-rays and ultrasounds.
When it comes to health care, will AI be helpful or harmful?
Stanford Medicine researcher Jonathan Chen discusses the promise and danger of using AI, such as ChatGPT, in medicine.
The AI life cycle: a holistic approach to creating ethical AI for health decisions
The ethical impact of AI algorithms in healthcare should be assessed at each phase, from data creation to model deployment, so that their use narrows rather than widens inequalities.
Stanford AI Projects Greenlighted in National AI Research Resource Pilot
Robotics and hospital computer vision projects receive NSF grants as part of an innovative pilot program to democratize AI research.
Dean Lloyd Minor on responsibly tapping the power of new AI tools
Dean Lloyd Minor on the need to not only learn to employ AI effectively but also to invest in efforts to guide its safe and responsible use
A call to consider ethics, responsibility in AI-tool creation
Biomedical ethicist encourages programmers to consider the ethical implications of using AI in health care settings.
The time 'is now, in the beginning': How do we ensure AI tools aren't biased?
New artificial intelligence tools have the potential to revolutionize health care. But Stanford researchers argue that disparities could worsen without intervention now.
The Shaky Foundations of Foundation Models in Healthcare
Scholars detail the current state of large language models in healthcare and advocate for better evaluation frameworks.
How to regulate AI? Bioethicist David Magnus on medicine's critical moment
The applications for AI in medicine are being explored deeply at Stanford Medicine and elsewhere. Putting guardrails in place now is crucial.
How Foundation Models Can Advance AI in Healthcare
This new class of models may lead to more affordable, easily adaptable health AI.
Researchers create guide for fair and equitable AI in health care
Researchers at Stanford Medicine are putting together a guide for principled implementation of artificial intelligence in health care.
MINIMAR (MINimum Information for Medical AI Reporting): Developing reporting standards for artificial intelligence in health care
The rise of digital data and computing power have contributed to significant advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), leading to the use of classification and prediction models in health care to enhance clinical decision-making for diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. However, such advances are limited by the lack of reporting standards for the data used to develop those models, the model architecture, and the model evaluation and validation processes.
Standing on FURM Ground: A Framework for Evaluating Fair, Useful, and Reliable AI Models in Health Care Systems
A testing and evaluation mechanism developed by the Stanford Data Science Team enables a process for accepting, reviewing, and supporting use case requests for AI solutions in the health care system.
A new AI approach optimizes development of antibody drugs
A method that combines a large language model with data about a protein’s 3D shape could make it quicker and easier to develop medications.
Peering into the Black Box of AI Medical Programs
To realize the benefits of AI in detecting diseases such as skin cancer, doctors need to trust in the decisions rendered by AI. That requires better understanding of its internal reasoning.
Generative AI develops potential new drugs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Stanford Medicine researchers devise a new artificial intelligence model, SyntheMol, which creates recipes for chemists to synthesize the drugs in the lab.
Generating Medical Errors: GenAI and Erroneous Medical References
A new study finds that large language models used widely for medical assessments cannot back up claims.
Doctors Receptive to AI Collaboration in Simulated Clinical Case without Introducing Bias
Doctors worked with a prototype AI assistant and adapted their diagnoses based on AI’s input, which led to better clinical decisions.
Stanford Medicine study identifies distinct brain organization patterns in women and men
Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a powerful new artificial intelligence model that can distinguish between male and female brains.
Wearable Device Allows Humans To Control Robots with Brain Waves
Wearing a non-invasive, electronic cap that reads the wearer’s EEGs, humans can now command robots to perform a range of everyday tasks.
Using NLP to Detect Mental Health Crises
Scholars develop a new model to surface high-risk messages and dramatically reduce the time it takes to reach a patient in crisis, from 10 hours to 10 minutes.
13 Biggest AI Stories of 2023
Generative models dominated the year, as calls for policy and transparency heated up.
Mind in the machine - Stanford Medicine Magazine
A bioengineer is developing computer hardware and software that emulates the way the human brains and nervous system really work.
AI-boosted biopsy scrutiny - Stanford Medicine Magazine
Digital pathology uses AI to increase the information gleaned from tissue samples and enhance clinical care, teaching and collaboration.
How Stanford Medicine is capturing the AI moment
Amid the frenzy over the potential of artificial intelligence to revolutionize medicine, Stanford Medicine is building on experience.
How digital tools are heading off alcohol-related health problems
Two of Brian Suffoletto's close friends died in an alcohol-related car accident when he was in college. It helped focus his path in medicine.
Advancing drug development with “petri dish” clinical trials
Testing drugs “in a dish” using heart and blood vessel cells can speed drug development and reduce health care disparities, cardiologist says.
Can AI ever best human brain’s intellectual capability?
Four prominent Stanford Medicine neuroscientists weigh in on the chances AI could best the human brain’s intellectual capacity.
Rethinking large language models in medicine
Stanford Medicine researchers and leaders discuss the need for medical and health professionals to shape the creation of large language models.
Healthcare Algorithms Don’t Always Need to Be Generalizable
A Stanford researcher questions the need for generalizable models and proposes instead sharing recipes for creating useful local models.
Proving AI in the Clinic: An Algorithm That Accurately Evaluates Heart Failure
A clinical trial shows an AI algorithm can read echocardiograms accurately and work well with healthcare practitioners.
Is AI up to snuff? Cardiac clinical trial points to yes
Stanford Medicine researchers studied how AI can enhance evaluation of cardiac tests in the clinic and found it improved accuracy.
AI helps gauge patients' attitude toward cholesterol drugs
Stanford Medicine researchers are using AI to mine discussion on Reddit to better understand sentiments about statins.
Parents’ Perspectives on Using Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Technology Interference During Early Childhood: Cross-sectional Online Survey
This study aims to assess parents’ awareness of technoference and its harms, the acceptability of AI tools for mitigating technoference, and how each of these constructs vary across sociodemographic factors.