Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Pennsylvania has sued Character.AI, alleging the company’s AI chatbot unlawfully posed as a licensed medical professional and provided medical advice. The lawsuit, filed by the Pennsylvania Department of State, seeks a preliminary injunction to stop Character.AI from “misrepresenting its AI…
Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System has incorporated AI to boost medication safety and delivery across its hospitals and facilities. The hospital has integrated dispensing technology with infusion systems to create a connected medication management approach from the pharmacy to the…
Artificial intelligence adoption among U.S. nurses is increasing, but it has left the fundamentals of care delivery largely unchanged, according to a May 5 survey from McKinsey. The survey asked more than 500 U.S. nurses across care settings about AI…
Mayo Clinic research published April 28 showed an AI model could detect pancreatic cancer up to three years before clinical diagnosis. Projected to be the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S. by 2030, early diagnosis has a significant…
Columbus-based OhioHealth is piloting an AI-driven alert system to improve detection and treatment timelines for heart valve disease. The tool, evaluated in the ALERT trial, sends real-time notifications to physicians based on echocardiogram results, identifying patients who may need further…
Ask most frontline clinicians what they need from AI, and the answer rarely starts with more data. The monitors already sound the alarm. The dashboards already flag. The EHR already surfaces risk scores. What clinicians need, and what most AI…
I recently had the privilege of joining senior leaders from Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, and USF Tampa General on a Becker’s Healthcare panel focused on unlocking quick AI wins. The conversation was candid and the ambitions for AI were high.…
When it comes to attempts at insurance fraud, the story behind claims could be a major threat. In a 2025 issue brief shared with Becker’s, the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association outlined several possibilities for fraud that AI could spur:…
In today’s healthcare landscape, we speak often of the transformation of shifting from volume to value, from episodic care to longitudinal outcomes, from fragmentation to coordination. At the same time, we ask leaders to evolve from operators to stewards, from…
AI was front and center during recent earnings calls for UnitedHealth Group and Elevance Health, as leaders discussed their companies’ respective $1.5 billion and $1 billion tech investments. Both organizations, along with Centene, made Fortune‘s top companies for AI adoption in 2025, as well. Payers…