Eighty-eight percent of health systems are using AI internally, yet only 17% have a mature governance structure and fully formed AI strategy, according to a report released Aug. 12 by the Healthcare Financial Management Association and Eliciting Insights, a healthcare strategy and…

With all the AI tools pouring into healthcare, providers might not know which use cases to prioritize. The American Medical Association released a healthcare AI toolkit that outlines common organizational priorities the technology can help address, according to an Aug.…

Five Pennsylvania state representatives plan to introduce legislation to regulate artificial intelligence in healthcare. The bill — backed by Reps. Arvind Venkat, MD, Tarik Khan, RN, Greg Scott, Bridget Kosierowski, RN, and Joe Hogan — would require insurers, hospitals and…

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health has reduced stroke treatment times and improved patient outcomes with RapidAI, an artificial intelligence tool that accelerates CT scan analysis and care team coordination. The platform flags large vessel occlusions and delivers images and alerts to…

Epic Systems is preparing to launch its own AI-powered clinical documentation tool, marking the EHR giant’s formal entry into the ambient scribe market. The tool, expected to be announced in August, would position Epic alongside companies such as Abridge and…

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System found that artificial intelligence can help emergency department teams identify which patients are likely to need hospital admission hours earlier than current methods. For the two-month, seven-hospital study, researchers compared predictions from a…

As IT chiefs look to make their organizations AI-ready, they can follow four steps for success, CIO reported Aug. 11. 1. Staff according to your organization’s unique needs. That could include training current employees or bringing in outside leaders, from…

Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco-based Piramidal to test the world’s first artificial intelligence model trained to read brainwaves. The AI tool can scan a day’s worth of electroencephalogram data within seconds — a process that currently takes specialists…

The National Institutes of Health is cracking down on research applications written by AI. The agency said it will not consider applications that are “either substantially developed by AI, or contain sections substantially developed by AI, to be original ideas…

Google and NASA are collaborating on a new AI-powered tool aimed at enabling autonomous medical care for astronauts during extended space missions, including future journeys to the Moon and Mars. The project centers on the development of the Crew Medical…