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Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk says AI is “already better” than most physicians. The billionaire entrepreneur was responding to an Aug. 7 X post from AutismCapital highlighting a cancer survivor talking at an OpenAI presentation about how she used ChatGPT to challenge her…

Illinois has enacted a law banning the use of artificial intelligence in delivering therapy or psychotherapy services without oversight from licensed professionals. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act into law Aug. 1, prohibiting AI…

On Aug. 7, OpenAI released GPT-5 — its latest AI model — which the company says includes significant improvements in addressing health-related questions. The model performs considerably better than previous versions on HealthBench, a benchmark that uses real-world scenarios and…

Mount Sinai researchers have developed an AI-powered surgical training model that guided researchers through a complex kidney cancer procedure — with no human instructor present. All 17 trainees in the study successfully completed the simulation.  Published in the Journal of…

Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures has invested in a $9.3 million funding round for an AI-powered startup that helps healthcare leaders select health IT vendors. The venture capital arm of the Los Angeles-based health system joined the oversubscribed seed investment for Elion.…

Providers at Renton, Wash.-based Providence are saving 2.5 hours a week of after-hours work with ambient AI, the health system’s researchers found. Here are five things to know from the July preproof study in Future Healthcare Journal: 1. The researchers…

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that widely used AI chatbots designed for medical support are vulnerable to repeating and elaborating on false health information. Published Aug. 2 in Communications Medicine, the study tested how…

Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, has a “robust” AI strategy with the ambitious goal of reducing clinical documentation by half to two-thirds, a leader told Becker’s. The 69-hospital system has over 40 AI use…

Health systems are updating their AI governance policies to keep pace with rapid advances in the technology and growing interest among frontline teams. Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and Cleveland Clinic shared how their internal frameworks for managing AI have evolved…

The pace of change for AI in healthcare is surprising even seasoned IT leaders, moving beyond automation and generative AI to now include multimodal capabilities. Multimodal AI can process and integrate multiple data types — such as images and text…

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