Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Over the past seven months, HHS has moved from talking about AI as a hospital efficiency tool to actively funding and defending the idea of AI that diagnoses, prescribes and treats patients largely on its own. Here’s a look at…
The AI vendor market has never looked like this. Health system CIOs are fielding pitches from dozens of startups on a regular basis, many genuinely capable but most unproven at enterprise scale, and the pressure to act is high while…
Nurse AI adoption is accelerating faster than hospitals are building strategies to support it, a report from Incredible Health found. Healthcare staffing company Incredible Health released its 2026 Annual State of Nursing report July 7. The findings are based on…
One Brooklyn Health said it has selected Hellocare.ai as its enterprise partner for AI-assisted virtual care delivery, the New York City-based health system said in a June 15 news release. The deployment covers two modules: AI-assisted virtual nursing and telehealth,…
For much of the past year, the loudest voices in tech warned that AI was coming for the workforce, The Wall Street Journal reported July 5. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in May 2025 that AI could wipe out half…
UC San Diego has launched the Institute for Applied Health Intelligence, a multidisciplinary initiative aimed at using AI and other digital technologies to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. The institute will bring together experts from UC San Diego Health…
Anthropic has rapidly expanded its footprint in healthcare this year, rolling out a HIPAA-compliant AI platform for providers, investing in drug discovery and public health initiatives, advancing cybersecurity programs aimed at protecting critical infrastructure and weighing in on the future…
OpenAI is in early talks with the Trump administration about handing the federal government a 5% stake in the company, CNN reported July 2. The proposal, still described as conceptual, would also ask other leading U.S. artificial intelligence companies to…
Healthcare has broadly settled on a reassuring principle for clinical AI: keep the human in the loop. For most health systems, clinician oversight has become the standard safeguard and the structural answer to concerns about AI errors, bias and patient…
Anthropic restored public access to its Claude Fable 5 AI model on July 1, after the U.S. Commerce Department fully lifted export controls that had forced both Fable 5 and its sibling model, Mythos 5, offline for 18 days. For…