Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Patients are walking into exam rooms with a question already half-answered. Increasingly, the source of that answer is not a nurse line or a pamphlet but generative AI, and health system leaders say the shift is changing their relationships with…
From deciphering complex medical jargon to understanding the array of treatment options, patients often feel overwhelmed even before stepping into a physician’s office. But could artificial intelligence make the entire experience less daunting and even more collaborative? Yes, it’s possible.…
More than 90% of health systems have deployed third-party AI solutions, but only 44% have a dedicated platform for testing those tools before rollout, according to a new report from the Center for Connected Medicine at UPMC and KLAS Research.…
Health systems, insurers and AI companies are facing a wave of litigation in 2026 over how artificial intelligence is used to make or influence decisions about patient care, coverage and billing. Here are three cases testing where accountability lands when…
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…
The job of a primary care physician has changed faster than the workforce built to support it. At Cleveland Clinic Florida, Surendra Khera, MD, is combining new technology, new roles and a fundamental rethinking of how primary care gets done.…
Sunny Eappen, MD, has been named chief medical officer of Assort Health, an AI agent platform for the patient journey. In this newly created role for the company, Dr. Eappen will be responsible for bringing clinical and operational expertise to…
The White House will meet Aug. 4 with representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta to discuss a new framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, CNN reported. The meeting follows President Donald Trump’s June 2…
NewYork-Presbyterian has adopted Signal 1’s AI Management System (AIMS) to govern and monitor artificial intelligence tools deployed across the New York City-based health system. The platform will oversee AI technologies ranging from cancer and structural heart disease detection tools to…
Hospitals are increasingly paying for artificial intelligence by the token, turning a once-obscure technical term into a line item finance teams are starting to watch. Tokens are the basic unit large language models use to read and generate text. A…