Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
As health systems accelerate AI adoption, technology leaders are discovering that some of the biggest risks aren’t obvious during the vendor demo stage. At Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the most revealing lessons came during implementation of a…
The family of a teenager who fatally overdosed after consulting ChatGPT is suing OpenAI, asking the court to pause the rollout of ChatGPT Health. Leila Turner-Scott and Angus Scott claim their 19-year-old son, Sam, died of an overdose after ChatGPT…
Vanderbilt Health in Nashville, Tenn., is rolling out an AI-powered virtual assistant within its patient portal. The tool launched April 1 at Primary Care One Hundred Oaks as part of a phased implementation and marks the first patient-facing AI tool…
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care has surpassed 1 million clinical notes generated using DAX Copilot, now known as Dragon Copilot, an ambient AI tool that listens to patient visits and drafts documentation directly into the EHR. Troy Foster, Stanford…
A tool from tech company Bayesian Health has become the first continuous AI sepsis monitor to gain FDA approval. The solution monitors hospital patients to detect deterioration and flag sepsis early on. The application was developed at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins…
Certain AI tools may help alleviate emergency department overcrowding, researchers at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic found. The study authors conducted a prospective study evaluating an AI model that predicts hospital admission risk, alternately showing and hiding its suggestions to clinicians…
Peter Banko, president and CEO of Baystate Health is all in on AI transformation. He’s excited about what new technology can bring to the organization across all departments and sees real opportunity for needle-moving investments across the platform. But that…
Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health has sped up prior authorizations with AI in Epic. Here are five things to know from a May 4 Epic case study: 1. Advocate Health replaced phone and fax-based prior authorization workflows with digital processes in…
Deepfake physicians created by AI are popping up on social media, often endorsing unproven treatments. The American Medical Association released seven key policy principles for preventing AI-generated physicians from proliferating, according to a May 11 news release: 1. Make physician…
Ambient AI scribes have evolved from experimental technology into one of the fastest-growing tools in U.S. healthcare, reshaping how clinicians document patient encounters. What began as early-adopter pilots in 2020 has accelerated into enterprisewide deployments. Health systems that once measured…