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Cleveland Clinic Developing AI to Advance Patient Care
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Welcome back. Health-care providers are using artificial intelligence to analyze enormous amounts of data in an effort to provide better care. A case in point is the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence, which is now exploring some 1.5 million records and developing systems to improve diagnostics and treatments.
Also: Startup K Health Inc. has raised $48 million to widen adoption of an app that uses artificial intelligence to replace initial doctor visits.
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The main campus of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. The hospital chain is one of several health-care organizations investing in AI for patient health. CREDIT: CLEVELAND CLINIC
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Cleveland Clinic’s AI Center works to advance patient care. Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence is developing artificial intelligence systems to predict patient readmissions, refine chemotherapy treatments, and improve diagnostics and disease prediction, reports WSJ’s Sara Castellanos.
Analyzing 1.5 million records. The center, which has initiated 20 AI-related research projects since its launch in March 2019, is relying on machine learning and other AI methods to analyze as many as 1.5 million patient records, identify patterns and make more accurate medical predictions than traditional statistical methods.
Predicting readmissions. In one project, researchers are building a machine-learning model to predict the likelihood that a patient will be readmitted to the hospital. Readmissions cost patients money, which is why prevention is important, said Aziz Nazha, the director for the Center for Clinical AI.
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Learning something new. The model takes into account admission records with other variables, including the date, time and day of the week of previous hospital visits and the number of days between admissions, as well as medical information, to predict the probability of readmission. The goal is to learn something new from the AI models that doctors don’t traditionally learn from statistics.
How the center is staffed. The Center for Clinical Artificial Intelligence is part of the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise Analytics division and brings together medical professionals from various divisions within the Cleveland Clinic, ranging from pathology and radiology to information technology. Dr. Nazha oversees a team of about a dozen staff, including resident physicians, with backgrounds in computer science and coding. They understand the strengths and weaknesses of the machine learning models they are developing, he said.
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A woman uses her cellphone in New York. K Health seeks to streamline access to care through an app that uses AI to tell consumers how doctors diagnose similar people with similar symptoms. CREDIT: ELIZABETH SHAFIROFF FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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K Health Gets $48 million for digital health services. Startup K Health Inc. has raised $48 million to widen adoption of an app that uses artificial intelligence to replace initial doctor visits, reports WSJ’s Brian Gormley.
Getting access to primary care can be difficult for some people because of the waiting time for an appointment or the need to travel to see a doctor. However, K Health seeks to streamline access to care through an app that uses AI to tell consumers how doctors diagnose similar people with similar symptoms. This way patients get personalized information without seeing a health-care provider in person.
Other ventures with similar aims. Several venture-backed companies aim to make primary-care services more accessible and effective. They include 1Life Healthcare Inc., better known as One Medical, which offers same-day appointments and recently went public, and Iora Health Inc., which recently secured $126 million in venture capital to boost a primary-care services model designed to prevent illnesses and lower costs.
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An employee takes a "selfie" photograph with a Beam robot, a remote presence system made by Suitable Technologies Inc., in 2015. The business filed for bankruptcy protection, saying the product was slow to catch on. CREDIT: JASON ALDEN/BLOOMBERG NEWS
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Maker of Beam teleconference robots files for bankruptcy. The technology company that developed Beam, a teleconference robot that broadcasts a user’s face on a fixed monitor, has filed for bankruptcy protection, saying the product was slow to catch on and that the business incurred tens of millions of dollars in losses, reports WSJ’s Jonathan
Randles.
Suitable Technologies Inc. is winding down its business and has hired investment banker Stout Risius Ross Advisors LLC “to canvass the market for interested buyers” in its intellectual property, equipment and other remaining assets, the company said.
Company started by Google developer. Founded in 2011 by Silicon Valley investor and software developer Scott Hassan, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said it sold or leased about 7,000 units to customers but suffered operating losses of more than $50 million between 2013 and 2018. Mr. Hassan was an early developer of Alphabet Inc.’s Google and has been credited as a key contributor to the search engine.
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Lawmakers want to make sure workers are treated fairly as companies use technology to make hiring decisions. A job fair in Brooklyn. PHOTO: GABBY JONES/BLOOMBERG NEWS
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New York City bill aims to regulate AI hiring tools. Companies in New York City that use AI and other technology to make hiring, compensation and other human-resources decisions would face tighter restrictions under a bill set to be introduced Thursday, reports the WSJ’s Kate King.
A bill proposed by Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo, a Democrat from Brooklyn, would prohibit the sale of these automated tools unless the software had been audited for bias.
Some lawmakers say they want to make sure workers are treated fairly as companies increasingly use technology to automate everything from weeding through résumés to interviewing potential hires. Elected officials and activists have become increasingly concerned that bias is embedded in many artificial-intelligence technologies.
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Toyota Motor Corp. made a $400 million investment in Pony.ai, raising the autonomous vehicle startup’s valuation to more than $3 billion, reports Bloomberg. The deal, according to the report, extends the two companies existing partnership and allows for a “deeper integration” of Pony.ai’s driverless tech with Toyota’s vehicles.
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President Trump said the risk to Americans from coronavirus remains very low, and he put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of federal response efforts as concern about the outbreak grew among lawmakers and as cities nationwide made fresh preparations. (WSJ)
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A federal appeals court in California on Wednesday ruled that privately operated internet platforms are free to censor content they don’t like. (WSJ)
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The House Judiciary Committee canceled a vote on an extension of key intelligence powers after a bipartisan coalition called for broader restrictions on government surveillance than what the bill contained. (WSJ)
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