Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Mass General Brigham’s AI intake tool gets patients to a physician the same day. Its CFO is fine losing money on a third of its AI spending. And not one executive Becker’s spoke with over two days at the Somerville,…
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is spending more on AI than it’s getting back in a straightforward financial sense — and its CFO said that’s by design, not an oversight. Asked whether AI is currently a cost drain, a long-term…
As hospitals and health systems further embed AI into healthcare delivery, they are increasingly appointing chief AI officers or equivalent senior executives with dedicated responsibility for AI governance, implementation and oversight. The growing presence of these roles reflects the industry’s…
Austin, Texas-based Oracle has expanded Oracle Life Sciences Data Intelligence, combining real-world data, domain-trained AI and advanced analytics in a single platform for pharmaceutical research teams, the company said Sept. 23. The platform, formerly known as Oracle Life Sciences AI…
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has spent the past three years building out how it governs AI, and the system’s technology chief said the arrival of agentic AI — tools capable of acting rather than just generating text — is…
Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health set out to give its clinicians back 10 million hours by 2028, a systemwide commitment to strip administrative work out of medical — and now nursing — practice. One year in, the system has banked a little…
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs selected Abridge to provide ambient AI technology under a nationwide enterprise contract. The multiple-award contract allows VA medical centers and regions to deploy Abridge for clinicians. It has a total ceiling of $775.72 million…
Artificial intelligence carries costs that are visible, growing and increasingly tied to token-level consumption. What it delivers in return is harder to quantify and health system leaders say that gap, more than any technology limitation, is the central challenge of…
Hasan Ahmad, MD, vice president and associate chief medical information officer at Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health, spent years untangling a problem that had nothing to do with AI: interruptive EHR alerts that had piled up for 15 years with…
Nearly half of respondents asked about AI across 13 countries said people without formal medical training who know how to use AI could perform at least one health-related task as well as or better than a trained healthcare professional, according…