Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Sept. 18 directing state agencies to accelerate implementation of the state’s new AI oversight laws and to explore requiring frontier AI developers to build an emergency shutoff, or “kill switch,” into their…
Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is requiring executive sponsors to commit to funding successful artificial intelligence pilots before the health system evaluates launching them. “We’re not evaluating launching a pilot unless the executive sponsor commits to paying for it if…
Health system CIOs have spent the past several years building AI programs around clinicians. Governance committees, intake dashboards, open office hours, ambient tools — the clinical side of the house has been the primary beneficiary of digital investment. For Donna…
“AI could kill all humans.” “AI could cause human extinction.” “AI is moving too fast to control.” Maybe. But I’m a physician, and I spend my days worrying about a threat to human life that isn’t theoretical. It is already…
More than 18 months into building AI agents, Rush's CIO says the tooling to model what they cost does not exist — so the control has to be the workforce.
In tandem with AI’s effect on the healthcare workforce, hospital executives are recalibrating how employees learn to do their jobs and what that shift demands of their leaders. Tim Calahan, founder and managing member of EHC Consulting and former chief…
As healthcare leaders assess the forces reshaping the revenue cycle workforce, connecting with younger employees is an increasingly valuable skill set. Some of those employees, as Mayo Clinic’s Nikki Harper pointed out during Becker’s IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, are…
Madison, Wis.-based UW Health is reviewing more than 100 AI features arriving through an upgrade to one of its core technology platforms, illustrating the growing governance demands health systems face as AI capabilities become embedded in enterprise software. Frank Liao,…
OpenAI has disclosed six instances of unexpected or concerning artificial intelligence model behavior as part of a new framework for tracking, investigating and publicly reporting model misalignment. The company outlined the framework in a Sept. 16 post, saying it is…
Day 3 of Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference included sessions that cut through the noise around AI and focused on what is changing — in revenue cycle operations, IT investment strategy, workforce development, and the design of…