Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
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…
Abridge, the AI medical documentation startup, is hiring engineers to deepen its EHR integrations with Epic, Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ VistA system, as well as a product lead to expand into revenue cycle…
Anthropic called for the world to build the tools needed to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development, arguing in a new report that the technology’s accelerating ability to improve itself is outpacing the safeguards meant to govern it. The…
Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has rolled out an AI-powered virtual assistant, Aubrey. The assistant is designed to guide patients through the surgical process, according to a June 4 news release. Once a procedure is scheduled, eligible patients can receive text…
The White House is backing a push for AI to take over more of the duties of physicians, The Washington Post reported. The Trump administration supports an experiment in Utah where AI is writing prescriptions, plans to offer over $50…
Health systems across the country have been committing to enterprise-scale AI partnerships throughout 2026, moving beyond isolated pilots toward systemwide deployments spanning clinical documentation, decision support, virtual care and workforce management. Below are notable enterprise AI deals announced so far…
A study of more than 1,500 clinicians at Renton, Wash.-based Providence found that ambient AI documentation tools reduced note-writing time and after-hours documentation burden, with modest per-provider gains that compounded into system-level relief at scale. Published May 29 in JAMA…