Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Autonomous AI could soon deliver better care than physicians or physician-AI hybrid teams, argues Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, a University of Pennsylvania bioethicist and former White House health policy adviser, in a recent JAMA Perspective. He and his co-authors cite…
Edmund Pribitkin, MD, executive vice president, chief physician executive and president of the Jefferson Medical Group at Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, has a concise answer for what sets the system apart from every other academic health system in its market: the…
The FDA has outlined a proposed framework for regulating AI-based software used as a medical device that can continue learning and adapting after reaching the market. The framework centers on what the agency calls a “predetermined change control plan,” which…
Healthcare has entered a new phase of artificial intelligence adoption. The question is no longer whether AI can improve healthcare. Predictive models, generative AI, ambient documentation, and intelligent automation have demonstrated their potential across clinical and operational settings. The real…
Board human resources committees are encouraged to transition to a broader “human capital” remit, in order to assure proper focus on new AI-prompted issues impacting the workforce. These include, but are not limited to, workforce restructuring; employee retraining and professional…
San Francisco-based Abridge is extending its context-aware clinical decision support to every clinician at its partner health systems, regardless of how they document patient visits. More than 300 enterprise health systems, representing over 250 million patients, have adopted the tool…
Kelly Haynie tracks the threat not to artificial intelligence itself but to the health systems that aren’t proactive in defining the real value proposition for their teams. As CEO of Ochsner Medical Center West Bank campus, part of New Orleans-based…
The OpenAI Foundation is committing $100 million to launch Breakthroughs to Follow-Through, a Common Health Coalition initiative that will use AI tools to close gaps in care delivery, the two organizations announced Aug. 13. The initiative’s first goal is to…
Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) launched the Health AI Cybersecurity Work Group on Aug. 12, tapping cybersecurity leaders from eight health systems to build the sector’s first peer-developed playbooks on frontier AI model cyber risk. A leadership council steers the…
House Democrats are demanding that OpenAI, Anthropic and House Speaker Mike Johnson respond to AI models that breached outside organizations during security tests, including a push for the AI giants’ CEOs to testify under oath. Twenty-nine members of Congress, led…