Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System will evaluate Signal 1’s AI Management Platform to unify governance and performance monitoring across its growing portfolio of AI tools. AIMS gives Mount Sinai a single system to track every AI tool in…
Cadence, a clinical AI company focused on chronic disease management, has raised $100 million in Series C funding and announced new partnerships with Duke Health and Texas Health Resources as it expands its footprint among health systems. The funding round…
As patient portal use continues to grow, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center is exploring whether AI can help patients get answers faster while reducing administrative burden on clinicians. The health system launched an AI-powered assistant inside its patient portal…
Orthopedic practices are running full clinic and surgical schedules while documentation demands keep climbing, pushing physicians into after-hours charting and capping how many patients they can see. Ambient AI has become a near-ubiquitous documentation aid, but the more pressing question…
Nearly 3 in 10 U.S. adults now use AI tools for health information at least monthly, a figure that has nearly doubled over the last two years and now rivals the share of adults who seek health advice on social…
Health system leaders are racing to deploy artificial intelligence, but Tomas Gregorio, senior vice president and chief digital information officer at Care New England Health System in Providence, R.I., believes the industry is outrunning its ability to govern it. Care…
AI has outperformed physicians on emergency diagnoses, flagged pancreatic cancer up to three years early and beat specialized clinical software on medical benchmarks across several studies Becker’s has covered in recent months. But the studies raise as many questions as…
Mayo Clinic is helping develop AI-powered tools designed to expand access to hospital-level care in rural and underserved communities through a federally funded initiative aimed at bringing medical services closer to patients’ homes. The Rochester, Minn.-based health system is participating…
Boston Children’s Hospital has deployed more than 50 automations across the organization, generating more than 30,000 hours in time savings during the first half of 2026 alone, according to John Brownstein, PhD, chief innovation officer and senior vice president. The…
OpenAI said a physician panel rated its new GPT-5.5 Instant model higher than responses written by physicians on a set of real-world health questions. The AI developer said more than 230 million people use ChatGPT each week for health and…