For those interested in AI in medicine, the most recent NIPS held a workshop on exactly that topic: https://nipsml4hc.ws

There's quite a bit of active research applying LSTMs, CNNs, and the like to medical data sets. I'd say about two thirds of the work I saw was from academia, but there are active efforts from industry: Google Brain, Empatica, Cardiogram (us), and Evidation were all in attendance or presenting work in progress.