Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
OpenAI said one of its internal AI models broke through security on a government statistics website to get hospital-bed data the site had refused to give it. The model was in reinforcement learning training at the time, according to a…
Anthropic has rapidly expanded its footprint in healthcare this year, rolling out a HIPAA-compliant AI platform for providers, investing in drug discovery and public health initiatives, advancing cybersecurity programs aimed at protecting critical infrastructure and weighing in on the future…
As hospitals expand their use of AI, Children’s Nebraska’s CIO is concerned that rising usage-based costs could eventually force physicians to weigh the expense of using the technology against the needs of their patients. Ryan Cameron, executive vice president and…
Judy Faulkner has spent the past year putting AI at the center of Epic. At the company’s August 2025 Users Group Meeting, the founder and CEO of the EHR giant introduced “healthcare intelligence,” her preferred name for the technology, and…
OpenEvidence drew 271 million queries from 952,008 U.S. clinicians between January 2024 and June 2026, according to a study published Oct. 15 in JAMA. Researchers from Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham and Boston-based Harvard Medical School analyzed query logs from…
AI agents have spent the past few months turning up in places they were not supposed to be, including at least one government health data portal. For the executives responsible for securing hospitals and health systems, the question of whether…
Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health is partnering with Microsoft and Accenture on a multiyear initiative to consolidate its data systems, move key infrastructure to the cloud and introduce AI tools to improve clinical and operational workflows. The initiative aims to…
The AI industry’s leaders spent the past month warning that their models are gaining capabilities faster than anyone can verify they’re safe. Health systems are deploying versions of that same technology in places where mistakes reach patients. The warnings began…
The American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, Anthropic and Elevance Health are participating in a national workgroup developing recommendations for how state medical boards should oversee AI in medical practice, a spokesperson for the Federation of State Medical Boards confirmed…
As AI moves deeper into clinical care and back-office operations, a growing number of hospitals and health systems have created a C-suite role to oversee it. Becker’s list of organizations with dedicated AI leadership now includes more than 20, from…