Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Researchers at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have developed BRIDGE, a multilingual benchmark that found large language models perform far better on medical licensing exams than actual patient-care tasks. The benchmark evaluates how well LLMs understand clinical text — including…
Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health has cut coder chart review time by 20% after deploying Epic’s AI Professional Billing Coding Assistant, generating an estimated $924,000 in annual labor savings. The tool surfaces suggested codes from clinical documentation, allowing the health system’s…
Anthropic and Trump administration officials are working to resolve a dispute that led the administration to restrict access to the AI company’s newest models, The Wall Street Journal reported June 15. The Journal reported discussions continued June 15 between Anthropic…
General-purpose large language models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic outperformed specialized clinical AI tools across every medical benchmark in a study published in Nature Medicine. Researchers tested OpenEvidence and Wolters Kluwer’s UpToDate Expert AI against GPT-5.2, Gemini 3.1 Pro and…
Hyro, a healthcare AI agent startup, has appointed Sindhu Pandit, MD, as its first vice president of clinical product strategy. Dr. Pandit is a practicing physician at New Orleans-based Ochsner Health and a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist. She…
Karias Health has introduced Faith, an AI care companion built to help members understand and act on healthcare decisions in real time. Faith is embedded in the broader Karias platform and is designed to bridge gaps across the care process,…
Health systems should direct AI investment toward implementation science, not new tool development, Sanjiv Shah, MD, director of research at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, said on Becker’s “Cardiology + Heart Surgery Podcast.” “We already have an abundance of…
As health systems expand their use of AI, some are creating new roles focused on governance, architecture and operations, while others are embedding AI responsibilities into existing teams. The shift is reaching the C-suite. Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth named Rob…
Agentic AI is taking root across health systems faster than the governance structures built to contain it. The technology questions, for the most part, are settled. What remains unresolved is whether the people responsible for operations understand they are now…
Anthropic pulled its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 artificial intelligence models for all customers on June 12 after the U.S. government issued an export control directive suspending foreign nationals’ access to the models, citing national security authorities. The directive bars…