Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Patients are increasingly turning to chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude for advice on how to fight medical bills with hospitals and payers, The New York Times reported. In some cases, patients have received advice from the AI that assisted them…
Unless payment models are updated, AI could drive up healthcare costs without boosting patient outcomes, a researcher at Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania says. To avoid overspending and ensure benefits, policymakers may need new frameworks that tie AI reimbursement more closely…
UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Health, based in Chapel Hill, N.C., have launched a platform aimed at advancing artificial intelligence development using real-world clinical data. The platform, called SHIRE — short for Secure Health Informatics Research Environment — is a cloud-based…
For years, the promise of technology in healthcare has outpaced its delivery. EHRs were supposed to make care more efficient — and instead buried clinicians in documentation. Digital tools multiplied, and so did the administrative burden. The gap between what…
Most health systems talk about accelerating AI adoption. Sudipto Srivastava, chief data and analytics officer at Montefiore Health System in New York City, is thinking about the opposite problem. Mr. Srivastava, who oversees data analytics, organizational reporting, AI governance, and…
Middleburg Heights, Ohio-based Southwest General has reduced average EHR time per patient by 18.6% and after-hours work by 14.15% after implementing Oracle Health’s Clinical AI Agent. In the year since deployment, clinicians generated approximately 81,000 notes using the AI tool,…
Public openness to AI in healthcare is declining even as more Americans turn to the technology to make medical decisions, an April 7 survey from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found. The survey, conducted by SSRS on its…
To spur healthcare AI adoption, policymakers must strike the right balance between enabling innovation and maintaining policy safeguards that protect patients and improve their experience, American Hospital Association President and CEO Rick Pollack wrote. Here are the AHA’s four priorities…
Agentic AI is arriving in health systems before anyone has agreed on how to contain it — whether to deploy narrow, task-specific agents or broader autonomous use cases, and how to build meaningful oversight into both. Health system IT leaders…
Health system executives say an ambient AI tool for nurses has reduced documentation burden and improved workflow efficiencies, while they look forward to further advances in the technology, KLAS Research reported. Eight of the nine leaders surveyed by the health…