Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
HHS wants an AI agent that can act as a round-the-clock member of a heart failure patient’s care team, managing care between visits and escalating to a clinician only when needed. On Sept. 9, the department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency…
Ambient AI gained much of its early traction in healthcare as a documentation tool for physicians. Now, a growing number of health systems are testing whether the technology can do something similar for nurses. Recent pilots and rollouts at Mercy,…
Health systems have spent the past few years piloting AI across nearly every department, but translating that activity into hard financial numbers has proven elusive for many. An April report from healthcare automation company Qventus found that while 42% of…
Anthropic has blocked multiple accounts after users tapped its Claude AI models for biological research that could potentially support the development of biological weapons, CNN reported Sept. 10. The AI company outlined five cases in a Sept. 10 threat intelligence…
A Clark County (Wash.) Superior Court judge has ruled that patients don’t have a legal right to access ambient AI recordings physicians use to draft clinical notes, siding with The Vancouver (Wash.) Clinic in one of the first rulings nationwide…
Ujjwal Ratan has joined UnitedHealth Group’s consulting and analytics division, Optum Insight, as chief AI officer. In a Sept. 10 LinkedIn post, Mr. Ratan said his role is to enable Optum Insight to operate as a connected agentic network in…
Health systems are spending more on artificial intelligence than ever before. The tools are more capable, the vendor pipelines are fuller and the board-level pressure to move has rarely been more intense. Yet across organizations, roles and geographies, the leaders…
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has awarded contracts to six teams to build the first FDA-authorized agentic AI system for cardiovascular care. ARPA-H announced the selections Sept. 9 under its Agentic AI-EnableD CardioVascular CAre TransfOrmation, or ADVOCATE, program.…
As health systems expand their use of artificial intelligence, some are asking a more fundamental question about vendor access to healthcare data: Does the data need to leave the health system at all? That is the approach Palo Alto, Calif.-based…
The medical community should be willing to experiment with AI systems that make autonomous clinical decisions, rather than insisting physicians always have the final say, Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla wrote in a Sept. 8 article…