A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-funded program to speed safe and effective medical device technologies to market has chosen an ACR Data Science Institute (DSI) use case among its first demonstration projects.

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Zebra Technologies Corp. announced the results of its Future of Healthcare: 2022 Hospital Vision Study, revealing the impact of mobile technology use in acute care hospitals. The research — which incorporates feedback from nursing managers, information technology (IT) decision-makers and patients — offers a perspective from the front-line of patient care. It also highlights the transformational power clinical mobility is expected to have on global health services within the next five years.

Researchers used machine learning techniques, including natural language processing algorithms, to identify clinical concepts in radiologist reports for computed tomography (CT) scans, according to a new study. The study was conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published in the journal Radiology. The technology is an important first step in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) that could interpret scans and diagnose conditions.