Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Healthcare has entered a new phase of artificial intelligence adoption. The question is no longer whether AI can improve healthcare. Predictive models, generative AI, ambient documentation, and intelligent automation have demonstrated their potential across clinical and operational settings. The real…
Board human resources committees are encouraged to transition to a broader “human capital” remit, in order to assure proper focus on new AI-prompted issues impacting the workforce. These include, but are not limited to, workforce restructuring; employee retraining and professional…
San Francisco-based Abridge is extending its context-aware clinical decision support to every clinician at its partner health systems, regardless of how they document patient visits. More than 300 enterprise health systems, representing over 250 million patients, have adopted the tool…
Kelly Haynie tracks the threat not to artificial intelligence itself but to the health systems that aren’t proactive in defining the real value proposition for their teams. As CEO of Ochsner Medical Center West Bank campus, part of New Orleans-based…
The OpenAI Foundation is committing $100 million to launch Breakthroughs to Follow-Through, a Common Health Coalition initiative that will use AI tools to close gaps in care delivery, the two organizations announced Aug. 13. The initiative’s first goal is to…
Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) launched the Health AI Cybersecurity Work Group on Aug. 12, tapping cybersecurity leaders from eight health systems to build the sector’s first peer-developed playbooks on frontier AI model cyber risk. A leadership council steers the…
House Democrats are demanding that OpenAI, Anthropic and House Speaker Mike Johnson respond to AI models that breached outside organizations during security tests, including a push for the AI giants’ CEOs to testify under oath. Twenty-nine members of Congress, led…
As Chicago-based Lurie Children’s prepares artificial intelligence tools for wider clinical use, the organization “locks” the models, prompts and outputs, according to Rajiv Kolagani, chief data and AI officer at Lurie Children’s. The practice is part of an internal framework…
The JAMA Network has issued updated guidance restricting how authors can use artificial intelligence in research and scientific work published across its 13 peer-reviewed journals. Three editors published an editorial Aug. 10 in JAMA outlining the guidelines: The new policy…
At Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, which operates campuses in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida as well as a network of regional clinics and hospitals, AI strategy starts with the people closest to the work. The health system has focused on creating…