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In the rapidly evolving world of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making significant strides in various sectors, particularly healthcare.
Code for America, a U.S.-based nonprofit, has developed an AI system that is revolutionizing the criminal justice system by identifying and expunging eligible criminal records from state databases. Meanwhile, in healthcare, AI technology is proving to be a game-changer, impacting healthcare, testing, and clinical trials in 2025.
Notable advancements include AI-based cancer aggressiveness prediction, AI-driven preventive healthcare platforms, digital twin models for virtual control arms in trials, and AI-powered clinical data management that supports decentralized and hybrid trial designs.
Healthcare and Precision Medicine
AI models are now successfully predicting tumor stemness—a marker of cancer aggressiveness and potential relapse—by analysing genetic and molecular data. This allows oncologists to tailor treatments with higher accuracy and improve patient stratification in oncology.
Preventive Healthcare
AI platforms, such as Everlab's system backed by $10 million in funding, generate personalized diagnostics, health alerts, and lifestyle plans based on continuous biomarker monitoring. This shift towards predictive and preventive care is set to redefine the healthcare landscape.
Clinical Trials Innovation
AI-driven digital twins create virtual patient models to simulate responses to standard treatments, enabling more efficient randomized controlled trials. This approach facilitates faster timelines and broader patient access to therapies. Digital twins also enable the adoption of novel trial designs, like adaptive or open-label trials, combined with biomarker-driven scrutiny for AI-designed therapies.
Data Management and Trial Operations
AI and machine learning enhance clinical data management by predicting enrollment delays, supporting patient recruitment from electronic health records, enabling remote data capture with wearables, and ensuring regulatory compliance. AI also aids protocol optimization and real-time safety signal detection using computer vision and deep learning on ECGs or imaging.
Elsewhere, AI is making its mark in unexpected ways. Sally Hansen, a U.S.-based nail polish brand, and Perfect Corporation, a beauty technology company in Taiwan, have partnered to launch a virtual try-on tool for nail polish using augmented reality.
In the realm of entertainment, Snapchat has launched an augmented reality lens that can detect Cheetos or Doritos chips and automatically play Megan Thee Stallion's single Flamin' Hottie. The Snapchat AR lens was trained using AI.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital have trained an AI system to measure appropriate doses of the anesthetic drug propofol during surgeries. In tests with real patient data, the AI system's recommendations maintained patient unconsciousness as well as human anesthesiologists.
Utah officials have begun expunging 500,000 eligible cases with the AI system developed by Code for America. Researchers at the National Integrated Heat Health Information System and Climate Adaptation Planning Analytics Strategies, in partnership, have created heat maps of Raleigh and Durham using 100,000 crowdsourced data points on temperature and humidity. These heat maps show that both Raleigh and Durham are warmer than previously thought.
These applications illustrate AI's transformative role in various sectors, accelerating both innovation and patient-centric care.
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- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the criminal justice system by identifying and expunging eligible criminal records from state databases, as shown by Code for America's AI system.
- In healthcare, AI technology is making significant advancements, particularly in cancer aggressiveness prediction, preventive healthcare platforms, and digital twin models for virtual control arms in clinical trials.
- AI-powered clinical data management supports decentralized and hybrid trial designs, predicting enrollment delays, aiding patient recruitment, enabling remote data capture, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- AI is being used in unexpected ways, such as in the beauty industry where Sally Hansen and Perfect Corporation have partnered to create a virtual try-on tool for nail polish using augmented reality.
- In entertainment, Snapchat has launched an AR lens that can detect and play music based on the presence of certain food items, like Cheetos or Doritos.
- AI is being used in research, for example, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital, where an AI system has been trained to measure appropriate doses of anesthetic drugs during surgeries.
