Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital does not love pilots, Scott Arnold, executive vice president and chief digital and innovation officer of the health system, told Becker’s. “In healthcare, pilots often become a slow ‘no.’ We prefer to test quickly and scale…
Charleston, S.C-based MUSC Health, Peoria, Ill-based OSF HealthCare, Kettering (Ohio) Health, and Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare have deployed an AI-powered contract intelligence platform from startup SpendRule. The solution validates invoices against contract terms in real time prior to making payments.…
Houston Methodist has deployed an AI platform for clinical documentation and revenue integrity across its ambulatory, emergency and inpatient settings. The health system is rolling out the platform enterprisewide to support clinicians and nurses with documentation and clinical workflows, according…
Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health is helping physicians understand the algorithms behind the AI tools they use for documentation and clinical decision support. “The American Medical Association has made it clear: Physicians need AI literacy,” David Cha, MD, associate chief medical…
The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston has approved the creation of an AI Center for Health Innovation and Informatics to coordinate and accelerate the responsible use of AI across the enterprise. The action came during the board’s February…
An Expanded Framework for Governing Autonomous Clinical Systems Abstract Artificial intelligence in medicine has advanced from narrow diagnostic classifiers to agentic systems capable of longitudinal clinical reasoning, autonomous planning, and sustained patient interaction. As these systems approach and, on certain…
Healthcare organizations are showing growing interest in agentic AI, but most remain in the early stages of adoption, according to new research from Microsoft and the Health Management Academy. The findings, published in the January 2026 issue of The New…
Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minn., and Siemens Healthineers are expanding their strategic collaboration to advance AI, imaging technologies and digital innovation in the care of patients with neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. The organizations signed an agreement to enhance patient…
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine is partnering with London-based Founders Factory to launch an accelerator to help U.K. and European AI startups enter the U.S. healthcare market. The four-month program will support ventures focused on healthcare technologies and offer access to Northwestern’s…
Eight health system executives have teamed up with technology and patient and caregiver safety leaders to set guidelines for patient communications involving AI. The PatientAI Collaborative created the first operational standard for AI-generated messages in automated outreach, care navigation tools,…