Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Ujjwal Ratan has joined UnitedHealth Group’s consulting and analytics division, Optum Insight, as chief AI officer. In a Sept. 10 LinkedIn post, Mr. Ratan said his role is to enable Optum Insight to operate as a connected agentic network in…
Health systems are spending more on artificial intelligence than ever before. The tools are more capable, the vendor pipelines are fuller and the board-level pressure to move has rarely been more intense. Yet across organizations, roles and geographies, the leaders…
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has awarded contracts to six teams to build the first FDA-authorized agentic AI system for cardiovascular care. ARPA-H announced the selections Sept. 9 under its Agentic AI-EnableD CardioVascular CAre TransfOrmation, or ADVOCATE, program.…
As health systems expand their use of artificial intelligence, some are asking a more fundamental question about vendor access to healthcare data: Does the data need to leave the health system at all? That is the approach Palo Alto, Calif.-based…
The medical community should be willing to experiment with AI systems that make autonomous clinical decisions, rather than insisting physicians always have the final say, Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla wrote in a Sept. 8 article…
Health systems do not need more AI pilots. They need a better way to decide which AI opportunities to pursue, how to deploy them, who remains accountable after deployment and whether they create measurable value. That is not simply a…
OpenEvidence said its new Darwin model has become the first AI system in history to score 100% on MedQA, a medical AI benchmark. Darwin also topped other major medical AI benchmarks, scoring 72.8% on MedXpertQA, 82.7% on HealthBench Professional and…
OpenAI has steadily expanded its healthcare offerings, launching a consumer health feature, a suite of hospital-focused tools, a clinician-facing product, a biology research model and acquiring a health data startup. OpenAI’s healthcare push comes as some of the largest technology…
The pace of AI investment in healthcare has few modern parallels. Health systems are signing enterprise agreements, standing up governance committees and announcing AI strategies with a frequency that would have been unimaginable five years ago. The tools are more…
Correctional healthcare runs on a question that has to be answered correctly every time: does this patient have insurance coverage that the state or county can be billed for, instead of the cost falling directly on the facility? Quality Correctional…