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Deploying AI in Healthcare: Separating the Hype from the Helpful
A Stanford professor assesses the state of AI in healthcare and encourages executives to think beyond the model.
Broadening the Use of Quantitative MRI, a New Approach to Diagnostics
A promising technology is held back by lack of quality data, but with a newly released dataset, Stanford researchers are...
Are Voice Assistants a Reliable Source of Health Information?
Research shows Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant aren’t equal in providing answers to our health questions.
AI + Health: How to Prioritize Humans
Sonoo Thadaney Israni says AI developers in the healthcare space should use a justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion...
Closing Language Gaps To Improve COVID-19 Tracing
Scholars employ a machine learning algorithm to predict people’s language needs, helping contact tracers resolve cases...
A Psychiatrist’s Perspective on Social Media Algorithms and Mental Health
Considering social media’s growing impact, how can we create empathetic design frameworks to improve compassion online? ...
How Stanford Scholars Collaborated with County Health Officials and a Local Community to Allocate COVID-19 Resources
By borrowing simple concepts from machine learning to identify disparities in COVID-19 testing, researchers helped Santa...
“Flying in the Dark”: Hospital AI Tools Aren’t Well Documented
A new study reveals models aren’t reporting enough, leaving users blind to potential model errors such as flawed...
Using AI To Personalize Cancer Care
Stanford scholars have developed an algorithm that identifies the best treatments for various subtypes of cancer.
The Open-Source Movement Comes to Medical Datasets
Hoping to spur crowd-sourced AI applications in health care, Stanford’s AIMI center is expanding its free repository of...
De-Identifying Medical Patient Data Doesn’t Protect Our Privacy
A Stanford researcher makes the case that de-identifying health records used for research doesn’t offer anonymity and...
Stanford Scholars Build AI-Based Tool To Scrutinize COVID Research
CoronaCentral sorts through mountains of pandemic-related articles to help scholars and policymakers understand COVID’s...