Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
As healthcare organizations deploy more artificial intelligence, the natural response is to add more governance. More committees. More reviews. More policies. More approval steps. But more governance does not necessarily mean better governance. Too little governance can expose organizations to…
President Donald Trump pushed back Sept. 14 against Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow the pace of advanced artificial intelligence development, arguing that existing federal authority and presidential oversight are sufficient to address risks from the technology. “The only…
Federal health officials are exploring how Medicare could pay for artificial intelligence tools that provide medical care or diagnoses as the Trump administration pushes to expand the technology’s role in patient care, The New York Times reported Sept. 14. Officials…
At the opening keynote of Becker’s 11th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference in Chicago, two health system technology leaders set up the argument that would carry through the rest of the week: The hardest problems facing…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Sept. 12 calling for a deliberate slowdown in AI capability development, a position that carries direct implications for health systems that have already deployed Claude or are evaluating AI platforms for clinical and…
HHS wants an AI agent that can act as a round-the-clock member of a heart failure patient’s care team, managing care between visits and escalating to a clinician only when needed. On Sept. 9, the department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency…
Ambient AI gained much of its early traction in healthcare as a documentation tool for physicians. Now, a growing number of health systems are testing whether the technology can do something similar for nurses. Recent pilots and rollouts at Mercy,…
Health systems have spent the past few years piloting AI across nearly every department, but translating that activity into hard financial numbers has proven elusive for many. An April report from healthcare automation company Qventus found that while 42% of…
Anthropic has blocked multiple accounts after users tapped its Claude AI models for biological research that could potentially support the development of biological weapons, CNN reported Sept. 10. The AI company outlined five cases in a Sept. 10 threat intelligence…
A Clark County (Wash.) Superior Court judge has ruled that patients don’t have a legal right to access ambient AI recordings physicians use to draft clinical notes, siding with The Vancouver (Wash.) Clinic in one of the first rulings nationwide…