Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
As health systems race to embed AI into clinical and administrative workflows, many are discovering that deploying the technology is only part of the challenge. Preparing the workforce may prove even more complex. Across the industry, leaders told Becker’s that…
Pasadena-based Southern California Permanente Medical Group has cut median response times for high-acuity patient portal messages from 22 hours to five with AI. The medical group, with 8,000-plus physicians serving more than 4.9 million members, rolled out the Smart Messaging…
Intermountain Ventures is collaborating with a health tech startup to earlier identify cases of multiple sclerosis. The venture capital and innovation arm of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has partnered with Canary Speech to study whether AI-powered vocal analysis can…
Healthcare leaders are increasingly planning to invest in agentic AI over the next several years, but a new report suggests the industry is splitting into two camps: organizations moving quickly to scale the technology and those taking a more cautious…
Guidance on how residents should use AI scribes is limited, even as physicians in training could benefit from the tools, according to a Feb. 10 study in Advances in Medical Education and Practice. The researchers — from Perelman School of…
Richa Gupta, MBBS, has been named vice president of care transformation at AI scribe startup Ambience Healthcare. Dr. Gupta previously served as medical group COO at Chicago-based Rush University System for Health, where she worked for over 13 years. Before…
AI can’t distinguish between true and false medical claims once they’re packaged as realistic-looking hospital notes or social-media health discussions, researchers from New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System found. The study authors analyzed over 1 million prompts across nine…
An AI framework developed by Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University identified statin intolerance, contraindications and patient deferrals documented in clinical notes for 10% of adult patients. Researchers processed 197,761 clinical notes from 47,192 adult patients using a three-part framework that included…
A large study examining the use of AI chatbots for medical advice found that people using large language models did not make better health decisions than those relying on traditional sources and may be exposed to inaccurate and inconsistent guidance.…
With so much money flowing into healthcare AI and funding many unproven solutions that will ultimately fail, a correction will be good for medicine, a Health Affairs commentary argues. AI spending in healthcare outpaces other sectors by a factor of…