Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
As healthcare leaders assess the forces reshaping the revenue cycle workforce, connecting with younger employees is an increasingly valuable skill set. Some of those employees, as Mayo Clinic’s Nikki Harper pointed out during Becker’s IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, are…
Madison, Wis.-based UW Health is reviewing more than 100 AI features arriving through an upgrade to one of its core technology platforms, illustrating the growing governance demands health systems face as AI capabilities become embedded in enterprise software. Frank Liao,…
OpenAI has disclosed six instances of unexpected or concerning artificial intelligence model behavior as part of a new framework for tracking, investigating and publicly reporting model misalignment. The company outlined the framework in a Sept. 16 post, saying it is…
Day 3 of Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference included sessions that cut through the noise around AI and focused on what is changing — in revenue cycle operations, IT investment strategy, workforce development, and the design of…
At a Sept. 16 panel at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference, three health system technology leaders were asked to share an example of a project’s specific ROI. Chif Umejei, CIO at New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian, answered with…
A Sept. 16 panel at Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference included a semantic argument that is becoming more substantive as artificial intelligence evolves: whether “AI” is a sufficient description anymore. Brian Hasselfeld, MD, executive medical director of…
Most health systems have a story about an AI pilot that never went anywhere. The tool was promising. The vendor was convincing. The proof of concept checked out. And then — nothing. The project lingered, the costs accumulated, and the…
Health systems have spent years running AI pilots. The question now is what comes after scaling them. Four leaders working at organizations with populations ranging from tens of thousands to 5 million patients say the answer requires something most organizations…
Building an AI agent that clicks through a payer portal once, in a demo, on a clean test account, is not hard anymore. Frontier models are a commodity, and browser automation frameworks are open source. A small engineering team can…
Health systems have spent the past two years asking whether their AI tools work. A more challenging question is now coming into focus: whether the measures they are using to answer that question are still valuable. Cheristi Cognetta-Rieke, DNP, RN,…