Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is using AI to help identify hospitalized patients who may benefit from palliative care earlier in their stay — part of a broader effort to expand access to supportive care while reducing avoidable readmissions. The initiative…
UnitedHealth Group is monitoring some Optum staff’s AI use, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The company is checking whether services division workers query tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot at least once a day, the sources said. UnitedHealth hosts…
Denver Health is intentionally avoiding operating on the “bleeding edge of AI deployment,” Daniel Kortsch, MD, associate chief of AI and digital health for Denver Health, told Becker’s. “As a safety-net organization, we have to use our resources carefully. We…
Anthropic is quietly growing into one of the most influential — and most valuable — AI companies in the world. And while the startup has begun courting health system customers, its reach extends far beyond healthcare. Here are 12 things…
Renton, Wash.-based Providence is participating in a federally funded research initiative to develop an AI model designed to predict and manage mental health and substance use crises. The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health awarded the software company Ksana Health…
Anthropic has committed $200 million in grant funding and other uses of its Claude chatbot to the Gates Foundation, with a focus on healthcare. The AI startup will dedicate resources to creating new drugs and vaccines and helping governments better…
OpenAI is expanding Codex capabilities with new mobile access and support for HIPAA-compliant use in certain enterprise healthcare settings. Here are five things to know: According to the news release, Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app is rolling out in…
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos is a large language model designed to supercharge computer security. But in the hands of hackers, it can be a powerful tool to exploit vulnerabilities. The company announced Project Glasswing April 7 to use Mythos Preview for…
It’s no secret that one of AI’s greatest use cases has been to streamline internal operations and administrative tasks at healthcare organizations. But, for some payers and their parent companies, these technologies are going even further, now serving as a…
Upon the technology’s arrival, Kensaku Kawamoto, MD, PhD, University of Utah Health’s inaugural chief health AI transformation officer, considered himself something of an AI skeptic. The longtime clinical informatics leader spent a lot of his career building digital health tools…