By CHRISTOPHER QUINN | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Published: February 3, 2021 ATLANTA (Tribune News Service) The family of the man who died in 2019 after being repeatedly attacked by fire ants at a Veterans Affairs long-term care facility in Atlanta filed a negligence lawsuit against the federal government and Orkin, the hospital s pest control company. The civil suit, filed in federal district court Monday, asks for $7.5 million in damages and other costs. It alleges the hospital and Orkin failed to follow safe and reasonable health-care practices, sanitation and safety protocols, VA policies and adequate employee training. The Atlanta VA Health Care System said in a written response it continues to mourn the loss of Joel Marrable, the veteran, and sends deepest condolences to his family and friends. However, we do not comment on pending litigation, it added.
AI screening algorithms to diagnose diabetic retinopathy do not show consistent performance
Diabetes continues to be the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults in the United States. But the current shortage of eye-care providers would make it impossible to keep up with demand to provide the requisite annual screenings for this population. A new study looks at the effectiveness of seven artificial intelligence-based screening algorithms to diagnose diabetic retinopathy, the most common diabetic eye disease leading to vision loss.
In a paper published Jan. 5 in
Diabetes Care, researchers compared the algorithms against the diagnostic expertise of retina specialists. Five companies produced the tested algorithms - two in the United States (Eyenuk, Retina-AI Health), one in China (Airdoc), one in Portugal (Retmarker), and one in France (OphtAI).