Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, frontier AI models the company says accelerated parts of its internal drug design work roughly tenfold, on June 9. The two models share the same underlying system — a new “Mythos-class”…
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care piloted an in-house AI agent that generates hospital discharge summaries, finding it reduced physician burnout. Researchers at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine built the tool, calling it MedAgentBrief, and deployed it at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood…
President Trump’s June 2 executive order to expand AI-enabled cybersecurity tools to rural hospitals could help narrow a longstanding imbalance in healthcare cybersecurity, according to two health system CIOs who say smaller organizations face the same threats as larger systems…
Health systems across the U.S. are diving deep into AI. They’re launching pilots and scaling the use cases with the best return on investment. They’re also purchasing enterprisewide AI accounts and encouraging their entire team to experiment and innovate with…
OpenEvidence, the AI-powered clinical reference app, has become one of the fastest-growing tools in American medicine, fielding 30 million questions last month alone, The New York Times reported June 8. Here are six things to know about OpenEvidence, according to…
While health system leaders told Becker’s they’re skeptical of the Trump administration’s push for AI physicians, they are in favor of using the technology to increase access. HHS healthcare AI adviser Amy Gleason, who also leads the Department of Government…
AI is no longer a pilot program at most U.S. health systems — it’s infrastructure. Enterprise deals inked in 2026 span clinical documentation, radiology triage, sepsis detection, capacity management and decision support, with health systems moving from cautious experimentation to…
Jayson Laban stepped into the vice president and CIO role at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston on May 1 with a clear vision for the organization’s technology strategy. “My vision is that we are the blueprint for…
Scaling AI across a health system demands governance structures, cultural alignment and a willingness to redesign workflows from the ground up. During a Becker’s Healthcare webinar sponsored by Nabla, two leaders from UC San Diego Health shared how they have…
U.S. employers announced 97,006 job cuts in May, a 16% increase from April and the highest total for the month since 2020, as AI continued to drive workforce reductions across industries, according to a June 4 report from Challenger, Gray…