Science Daily

Algorithm-driven digital program helped lower patients' cholesterol, blood pressure

Researchers enrolled 5,000 patients in a remote, cholesterol and blood pressure management program utilizing care navigators and pharmacists, supported by specialists and using specialist-designed ...
The Verge

Here’s how an algorithm guides a medical decision

Artificial intelligence algorithms are everywhere in healthcare. They sort through patients’ data to predict who will develop medical conditions like heart disease or diabetes, they help doctors ...
Nature

Perinatal transfer of genetic information: developing an algorithm for reporting cystic fibrosis prenatal test results to the newborn screening program

Purpose: This study explored the feasibility of statewide reporting of cystic fibrosis fetal diagnostic testing results to the newborn screening program through the birth hospital. Methods: We ...
News Medical

Algorithm-driven program improves cholesterol, blood pressure levels

Using a remotely-delivered, algorithm-driven program for disease management, patients experienced significant improvement in cholesterol and blood pressure levels, according to late-breaking research ...
Inside Higher Ed

The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm

In 2013, the University of Texas at Austin’s computer science department began using a machine-learning system called GRADE to help make decisions about who gets into its Ph.D. program -- and who ...