Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Anthropic has acquired Mithril Medicine, a one-person startup developing treatments for two rare forms of muscular dystrophy. The AI company also released early results from Claude-assisted drug development work with six outside organizations, it said Oct. 27. The partners are…
As hospitals and health systems further embed AI into healthcare delivery, they are increasingly appointing chief AI officers or equivalent senior executives with dedicated responsibility for AI governance, implementation and oversight. The growing presence of these roles reflects the industry’s…
Even with AI governance policies, employee training and technical safeguards in place, hospitals and health systems face limits on how effectively they can prevent staff from sharing patient information with unauthorized AI tools. “No hospital can eliminate this risk entirely.…
Clinicians at Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health who used Heidi’s ambient AI scribe most heavily spent about 2.5 fewer minutes per encounter with notes open in the EHR after enrolling, according to a quality improvement study published in Annals…
Anthropic filed its S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 26, naming healthcare and life sciences among the new markets the Claude developer intends to enter as it prepares to list on the Nasdaq Global Select…
Hackers used Anthropic’s Claude Code to compromise at least 15 healthcare organizations in Argentina, according to cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. A second threat actor, who is Chinese-speaking, primarily reached Claude models through a China-based proxy service and targeted more than 20…
Cleveland Clinic Cancer Institute has established a task force to evaluate AI tools and streamline their adoption into operations and clinical care. The task force, called the Cancer Institute Office of Technology and Digital Strategy, is led by oncologists Paul…
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore is notifying about 3,182 patients that their information may have been compromised after a workforce member uploaded a spreadsheet containing patient data to a public AI tool the hospital had not approved. According…
In a clinically integrated network where nearly 70% of primary care physicians are independent, leaders cannot rely on a traditional management structure to drive change. Physician governance and trusted data become essential to engagement and to whether AI-powered insights earn…
Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health’s ambient AI rollout was associated with up to 16.6% less after-hours documentation and up to 39.3% faster chart closure among its most active users, according to a study published Oct. 23 in NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care…