Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
HHS is signing onto President Donald Trump’s Genesis Mission, aligning departmentwide resources to apply AI to chronic disease research. The effort centers on the NIH-led Bio Genesis Mission, which aims to cut in half the time it takes scientific discoveries…
Health systems have poured money and attention into scaling AI over the last several years — but, of course, not every pilot makes it that far. For Tinu Tadese, MD, chief medical informatics officer at Boston Medical Center, the clearest…
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has trained more than 1,300 employees through its School of AI since launching the program in 2025, but its leaders say reaching the rest of its workforce will take more than curriculum alone. The Philadelphia-based health…
Clinical AI vendors have spent the past few weeks citing dueling benchmark studies to make the case that their tool is the safest or most trusted by physicians — sometimes citing the same study to reach opposite conclusions. Here are…
Chris Fall has resigned as director of the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation, the Commerce Department office responsible for testing frontier AI models. Mr. Fall had led CAISI since April, when the Trump administration tapped him for the…
Tempus AI has agreed to acquire the cancer genomics company Personalis in a deal valued at about $1.5 billion, the companies announced July 20. The acquisition builds on a partnership the two companies formed in November 2023, when Tempus invested…
OpenEvidence has considered raising $200 million at a $20 billion valuation but is unlikely to move forward with the round, The Information reported July 17. A source involved in the discussions told the news outlet the deal would dilute shares…
When an AI vendor walks into Mass General Brigham with a bold ROI claim, the conversation doesn’t start with a pilot proposal. It starts with a form. Rebecca Mishuris, MD, chief health information officer at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham,…
AI chiefs have become increasingly present in health systems, shaping governance, implementation and oversight. Health plans and their subsidiaries have been getting on the bandwagon, too. While analytics- and technology-centric executives are often responsible for AI initiatives at companies, some…
Stanford University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School researchers ranked 24 AI systems by clinical safety in a new benchmark study, finding four medical-specialized tools topped the list in a statistical tie. The findings come from NOHARM (Numerous Options…