Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has developed an AI model that detects signs of disease and future health risks in CT scans beyond the condition each scan was ordered to assess, according to a study published in NPJ Digital Medicine. The model,…
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD, R-La., has released a discussion draft of the PATIENT AI Act, proposing to clarify whether the FDA or ONC oversees healthcare AI tools and to create a federal payment pathway for AI-based services. The Protecting…
The pressure on health system executives to move fast on artificial intelligence has rarely been more acute. Vendor pipelines are full, board expectations are rising, and the fear of falling behind is real. Chris Carmody, recently named CIO of Pittsburgh-based…
For all the investment in portals, apps and online scheduling, most patients still pick up the phone. Abandoned calls and long holds rarely show up on a dashboard, but they surface later as unbooked appointments, overtime and patients who take…
Epic has said more than 85% of its customers now use its AI tools, which sit inside the EHR their clinicians and billers work in every day. What those tools will cost a health system next year is getting harder…
Hospitals and health systems are recruiting AI leaders, engineers and specialists to oversee AI adoption, develop new tools and integrate the technology into clinical and operational workflows. The openings range from AI product development and workforce training to enterprise governance…
Sixty percent of Americans would be uncomfortable with their doctor using AI in healthcare for diagnoses and treatments, and most don’t want AI working without human oversight, an Oct. 29 Pew Research Center report found. That is double the 30%…
The American Medical Association released a framework Oct. 29 for assigning liability when clinical AI harms patients, aligning responsibility with each party’s authority and ability to prevent or mitigate harm. The AMA Center for Digital Health and AI said existing…
As AI takes on more clinical tasks, health systems are introducing safeguards to preserve physicians’ independent judgment and prevent clinical skills from deteriorating, even as leaders acknowledge they have yet to determine how to measure AI’s long-term effects on competency.…
San Francisco-based OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman have been sued over the death of a 31-year-old Seattle woman with epilepsy who stopped taking her antiseizure medication on a schedule ChatGPT allegedly designed. Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu, the parents of…