Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT awarded a total of $1.5 million to MedStar Health Research Institute and Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute for projects focused on agentic AI in clinical care and laboratory interoperability. The awards are part…
Patients at Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health are linking their medical records to ChatGPT at a rapidly accelerating pace, and the health system is footing part of the bill for a connection it never turned on. The number of patients at…
Utah has approved a pilot that lets AI from Nolla Health issue initial acne prescriptions without a physician visit. The company says it is the first organization in the U.S. cleared for AI to write new prescriptions. The state has…
Michael Browning, senior executive vice president and CFO of Chicago-based CommonSpirit, said during the system’s fiscal year 2026 investor call Oct. 2 that the system has “captured $200 million in financial value from artificial intelligence.” Mr. Browning said the system…
President Donald Trump has formed the Super Intelligence Force, a new federal body that will coordinate the government’s strategy for AI, which the administration now refers to as “super Intelligence.” President Trump announced the group Oct. 4 in a post…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic said it has no evidence of unauthorized access to its systems or data after Asymmetric Security reported finding evidence that OpenAI agents had probed its website. In an Oct. 1 report, Asymmetric Security said it investigated…
UVA Health is the latest health system to offer virtual primary care that uses AI to gather information from patients before connecting them with a clinician, joining at least nine other systems with similar 24/7 care models. Here are the…
Two recent developments have sharpened a question health systems will eventually have to answer: How much care can AI deliver on its own? A Sept. 28 McKinsey & Co. analysis estimated that AI can perform the care represented in 16%…
UC San Diego Health is working with Harvard Medical School and Anthropic to develop an open-source oversight system designed to check the safety of medical recommendations made by patient-facing AI. The collaboration is part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency…
OpenAI and Anthropic are among the artificial intelligence companies facing a Federal Trade Commission investigation into potential risks associated with their products, CNBC reported Sept. 30, citing an agency spokesperson. The spokesperson declined to identify the other companies under investigation.…