Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
U.S. employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May, a 16% increase from April and the highest total for the month since 2020, as AI continued to drive workforce reductions across industries, according to a June 4 report from Challenger, Gray…
Abridge, the AI medical documentation startup, is hiring engineers to deepen its EHR integrations with Epic, Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ VistA system, as well as a product lead to expand into revenue cycle…
Anthropic called for the world to build the tools needed to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development, arguing in a new report that the technology’s accelerating ability to improve itself is outpacing the safeguards meant to govern it. The…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has rolled out an AI-powered virtual assistant, Aubrey. The assistant is designed to guide patients through the surgical process, according to a June 4 news release. Once a procedure is scheduled, eligible patients can receive text…
The White House is backing a push for AI to take over more of the duties of physicians, The Washington Post reported. The Trump administration supports an experiment in Utah where AI is writing prescriptions, plans to offer over $50…
Health systems across the country have been committing to enterprise-scale AI partnerships throughout 2026, moving beyond isolated pilots toward systemwide deployments spanning clinical documentation, decision support, virtual care and workforce management. Below are notable enterprise AI deals announced so far…
A study of more than 1,500 clinicians at Renton, Wash.-based Providence found that ambient AI documentation tools reduced note-writing time and after-hours documentation burden, with modest per-provider gains that compounded into system-level relief at scale. Published May 29 in JAMA…
State legislatures are moving faster than Congress on AI in healthcare. At least four states have enacted laws that directly govern how health systems must disclose or limit AI use in clinical care, and dozens more bills are advancing in…
Scott MacLean has spent eight years building MedStar Health’s IT environment around a simple conviction: fewer tools used better. As senior vice president and CIO at Columbia, Md.-based MedStar, a 10-hospital integrated delivery system affiliated with Georgetown University Medical Center…
Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has introduced a pediatric AI innovation hub to translate the technology from concept to bedside use. The partnership with Blacksburg-based Virginia Tech will bring together pediatric clinicians, biomedical researchers and AI specialists to create advancements…