Telehealth visits skyrocketed during the pandemic. Telehealth has enormous advantages, but to improve care at scale, several challenges must be addressed. 

UnityPoint Health-Des Moines (Iowa) and Qventus are partnering to use artificial intelligence to improve patient flow, the discharge process and triaging ancillary services. 

While more healthcare providers turned to chatbots for patient triaging during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say the technologies powering these virtual assistants still need advancing before coming close to imitating a physician's brain, The Washington Post reported. 

Patients may have gained access to their EHR notes, but that doesn't mean they have an easy time understanding what those notes mean, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. 

Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, said artificial intelligence's social benefit is among the likes of fire, electricity and the internet, according to a BBC podcast interview published July 11.

Sioux Falls, N.D.-based Sanford Health will soon unleash an artificial intelligence tool to scan EHRs for clues a patient could have obstructive sleep apnea.

Hospitals are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence-powered tools to streamline workflows and support clinical decision making, but not all patients are sold on the technology.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has launched a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence certificate geared toward medical settings.

Olive recently closed a $400 million funding round, raising the healthcare AI company's total valuation to $4 billion, according to a July 1 news release. 

Hospitals are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence-powered tools to streamline workflows, support clinical decision making, diagnose diseases and generate insights from data. Below are five of the biggest healthcare AI deals Becker's Hospital Review has reported on in 2021:

Sepsis prediction models rely on timely, accurate data and artificial intelligence to help clinicians, but they are plagued by issues that can contribute to their failure in clinical settings, according to clinical data engineer Angelique Russell. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs is piloting an artificial intelligence tool that helps clinicians predict COVID-19 patients' mortality, according to a July 1 VA blog post.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University and IBM Research unveiled a new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot July 1 that the two organizations developed to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. 

Recuro has acquired MyLegacy, a clinical decision-making support application, which was developed by the Cleveland Clinic Genomic Medicine Institute.

The World Health Organization released a guide for how to use artificial intelligence in healthcare settings with guidance from ethics, human rights and tech experts, according to a June report. 

In an open letter to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the American Medical Association outlined how algorithms in healthcare settings factor in biases and compound racism, according to a June 23 article published by the AMA.

Jean-Olivier Racine has left Amazon to join a health IT startup after serving in artificial intelligence and tech leadership roles for nearly 10 years. 

Providence's health tech investment portfolio Tegria on June 24 acquired KenSci, a company that provides artificial intelligence platforms and tools to healthcare providers, payers and medical device companies.

Burnout is an unfortunate reality for radiologists today. Many are recognizing, however, that technology and artificial intelligence can help restore joy to their profession.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology launched a study to quantify how much physicians trust artificial intelligence. Without trust in AI, physicians may be skeptical of adding automated diagnosis and guidance to patient care plans, according to a June 22 article by Wired.