Artificial Intelligence

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…

Health systems do not need more AI pilots. They need a better way to decide which AI opportunities to pursue, how to deploy them, who remains accountable after deployment and whether they create measurable value. That is not simply a…

OpenEvidence said its new Darwin model has become the first AI system in history to score 100% on MedQA, a medical AI benchmark. Darwin also topped other major medical AI benchmarks, scoring 72.8% on MedXpertQA, 82.7% on HealthBench Professional and…

OpenAI has steadily expanded its healthcare offerings, launching a consumer health feature, a suite of hospital-focused tools, a clinician-facing product, a biology research model and acquiring a health data startup. OpenAI’s healthcare push comes as some of the largest technology…

The pace of AI investment in healthcare has few modern parallels. Health systems are signing enterprise agreements, standing up governance committees and announcing AI strategies with a frequency that would have been unimaginable five years ago. The tools are more…

Correctional healthcare runs on a question that has to be answered correctly every time: does this patient have insurance coverage that the state or county can be billed for, instead of the cost falling directly on the facility? Quality Correctional…

OpenAI is committing $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cyber models, training and technical support through a new initiative called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. The effort targets resource-constrained providers of essential services, “helping frontline defenders — water utilities,…

Even though ChatGPT for Healthcare can now integrate with Epic, health system leaders told Becker’s that generative AI does not get closer to the medical record unless its output can be traced, checked and audited against the chart and a…

Ambient AI scribes are sold on a generous promise: give clinicians their time back. The early evidence backs it. In a six-system study, clinician burnout fell from 51.9% to 38.8% within a month of adoption, according to a 2025 article…

Executives at Amazon, Ford and JPMorgan Chase have all predicted AI will eliminate a wide swath of white-collar jobs in the years ahead. Healthcare, for now, has mostly been an exception: Job openings in nearly every healthcare category tracked by…