Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is using AI and genetic data to detect early signs of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a rare and often fatal heart condition. Researchers identified subtle warning patterns in patients with mutations in the PKP2 gene, which…

Among the most significant challenges facing the healthcare industry are rising costs, the aging population and the shrinking healthcare workforce. On top of that, policy changes are putting pressure on payers and there is tremendous uncertainty about federal research funding.…

Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures has joined a $25 million funding round for an AI-powered behavioral healthcare startup. The venture capital arm of the Los Angeles-based health system participated in the preempted series B financing Nov. 6 for Amae Health, which plans…

OpenAI is exploring whether to expand into consumer health applications, Seeking Alpha reported Nov. 10. The company, best known for creating ChatGPT, is discussing products such as a generative AI-powered personal health assistant and a health data aggregator, according to…

AI is already transforming the healthcare workforce and the care they deliver, from automated coding to scribing — with many more advances to come. That was the message from Becker’s 13th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable’s AI Summit, which took…

As AI moves deeper into clinical workflows, health systems are drawing sharper boundaries around what makes an AI tool “safe to deploy” — and who issues that stamp of approval. For Amer Saati, MD, chief medical information officer at Roseville,…

Microsoft has formed an AI “superintelligence” team that will focus on transforming healthcare with the technology. The tech giant expects the “arrival of medical superintelligence in the next few years,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman wrote in a Nov. 6…

The term “AI nurse” is appearing with increasing frequency in healthcare technology pitches and product descriptions. But for many nursing leaders, it is a line that should not be crossed. Titles such as nurse and physician are not marketing tools,…

AI has been the sixth most-cited reason for U.S. job cuts so far in 2025, but the No. 2 cause of layoffs in October, Challenger, Gray & Christmas found. The technology has been responsible for 48,414 staff reductions this year,…

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System will begin using Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot, an AI tool designed to help clinicians complete documentation and reduce administrative work. The technology, which combines natural language processing and generative AI, will integrate directly into…