Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Nearly half of respondents asked about AI across 13 countries said people without formal medical training who know how to use AI could perform at least one health-related task as well as or better than a trained healthcare professional, according…
Clara Lin, MD, vice president and chief medical information officer at Seattle Children’s, doesn’t have a shortage of AI tools to consider. She has the opposite problem. “Epic is coming out with like 100, 200, 300 … just so many…
OpenAI and Anthropic are among the corporate sponsors of an upcoming summit organized by the MAHA Center, a nonprofit promoting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement, Politico reported. The Sept. 29 event is also sponsored…
President Donald Trump says he is forming an “AI Force” to oversee the AI industry and will soon name an AI “czar,” modeling the initiative on the Space Force he created during his first term. In a Sept. 19 Truth…
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…