Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
As patients increasingly turn to AI tools to interpret their health data, nurses are encountering new challenges at the bedside, according to a March case study in Nursing Outlook. The paper describes a chemotherapy patient who used ChatGPT to interpret…
Jay Shah, MD, chief of the medical staff at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care, has been named chief medical advisor of health tech startup Amigo AI. The company also raised $11 million in March 10 series A funding led…
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, is not only encouraging AI use across his agency but also with Medicare beneficiaries, he said in a recent interview with HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf. “Why wouldn’t we, within a year, be able to give…
The guide wire felt wrong. My hands, trained over two decades and thousands of procedures, sensed a resistance the navigation screen denied. The system’s three-dimensional reconstruction, a confident render of the patient’s sinus anatomy, showed a clear path. My proprioception,…
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City are examining how artificial intelligence systems perform when faced with heavy workloads in clinical environments, finding that system design may play a larger role than the…
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health has unveiled a full-service, AI-powered robotic kitchen at its York hospital. The Fresh Take Eatery offers 24/7, on-demand food service, effectively doubling dining capacity during peak periods. The robots store and retrieve ingredients, cook, plate and…
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine and Wray (Co.) Hospital and Clinic are adopting an agentic AI platform for healthcare finance from startup Transculent. The company also raised $27 million in series A funding March 11 led by GV (Google Ventures). Outpatient providers…
Microsoft has launched Copilot Health, an AI-powered tool designed to help users interpret their personal health data and prepare for conversations with clinicians. Copilot Health is a secure space within Microsoft’s Copilot platform that aggregates health records, wearable device data…
More than 80% of physicians use artificial intelligence in their professional practice — more than double the share in 2023, according to a March 12 survey from the American Medical Association. AMA polled 1,692 U.S. physicians across various specialties, practice…
In health system boardrooms across the U.S., conversations about artificial intelligence have reached a fever pitch. Vendors are promising transformation and executives feel pressure to act, but initiatives are stalling with striking frequency. It’s not that the models fail; the…