A majority of hospital and health system executives believe AI could improve clinical decision-making and cut costs, but few say they are ready to integrate the technology into day-to-day care, an Aug. 26 report from Sage Growth Partners found. Sage…

As hospitals and health systems expand their use of AI, leaders say clear communication with boards and executives is essential to temper enthusiasm with realistic expectations. Rohit Chandra, PhD, chief digital officer at Cleveland Clinic, described AI as a promising…

More than half of health systems are understaffed in surgical departments, and about 60% of operations start later than scheduled, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. These delays ripple outward, increasing costs, wasting supplies and adding to…

New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has developed an artificial intelligence-powered image analysis tool, MARQO, to accelerate cancer tissue processing. The tool works by extracting cellular and spatial information from tumor tissue slides. It supports immunohistochemistry…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center is planning to expand its DAX Copilot to inpatient clinicians as early as this fall. Here are five things to know:

While paper documentation still lingers in certain areas of health system operations, today’s physicians are largely spared from the manual record retrieval and clunky metal filing cabinets that were commonplace before the rise of the EHR. However, physicians still face…

Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health is piloting a computer program developed with Northwestern University in Evanston that aims to detect acute respiratory distress syndrome, a common but hard-to-diagnose lung condition. The program, trained on clinical guidelines used by ICU physicians, scans…

Cincinnati Children’s CEO Dr. Steve Davis was an early believer in AI’s ability to transform healthcare. He had his team dive in early; his foresight and persistence paid off. “A couple of years ago, we actually required every one of…

The use of ambient AI scribes led to a sharp drop in burnout and an increase in well-being among clinicians at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham and Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, a new study found. The health systems surveyed over 1,400…

A bundled, AI-enabled health coaching program significantly improved outcomes in adults with Type 2 diabetes, a recent Cleveland Clinic study found. The intervention, developed by Twin Health, used wearable devices and a smartphone app to deliver personalized nutrition and exercise…