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FDA Using AI in Drug Surveillance; Health Systems Move Ahead With AI; RAISE Guidance

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The FDA said it's by using AI to help sift through the more than 2 million adverse event reports it receives each year. (Endpoint News)

AI industry leaders are worried that with AI in healthcare, which could lead to regulation that fails to protect patients. (KFF Health News)

While policymakers and regulators catch up, health systems across the country have been figuring out when and how to implement the emerging technology without compromising patient safety or privacy, according to .

Following the Responsible AI for Social and Ethical Healthcare (RAISE) conference, experts published guidance for the development of healthcare AI tools simultaneously in and .

A survey of more than 1,000 physicians revealed that 93% feel burned out on a regular basis, but 83% believe AI-based tools could eventually alleviate many of the problems facing healthcare, according to Athenahealth's third .

Mass General Brigham pediatricians used GPT-4 to translate educational videos on pediatric care -- including instructions for surgical procedures and best practices for intubation and intensive care -- into Spanish so they could be used by clinicians in low-resource areas of Guatemala and Colombia, they reported in .

The NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) announced a new AI tool called the Biomedical Data Translator that to identify existing treatments that can be repurposed for rare diseases.

AI can quickly and accurately measure fat around a patient's heart during routine low-dose CT scans, potentially helping clinicians identify patients at risk of a heart attack, according to a study published in .

A study of 177 individuals -- including 78 with Alzheimer's disease -- identified a new set of 21 diagnostic metabolomic biomarkers that could help train new AI tools to predict patients at higher risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to a paper published in the .

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    Michael DePeau-Wilson is a reporter on ѻý’s enterprise & investigative team. He covers psychiatry, long covid, and infectious diseases, among other relevant U.S. clinical news.