Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
San Francisco-based Bunkerhill Health raised $55 million in Series B funding July 16 to expand its Carebricks agentic AI platform — bringing total funding to $55 million across its seed, Series A and Series B rounds, according to a news…
San Francisco-based UCSF Health has launched UCSF Health Converge, an AI accelerator built with Kleiner Perkins and Doerr Capital that embeds startups directly inside the health system’s clinical operations. The program takes an “inside-out” approach, selecting a small number of…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has deployed roughly 150 AI models across its health system, CNN reported July 16. The tally, according to Matthew Callstrom, MD, a radiologist and medical director of the health system’s generative AI program, spans tools built…
IT departments used to be judged on whether they could deploy software on time. CIOs say that bar has moved: The job now is redesigning clinical workflows, owning outcomes alongside clinicians, and building governance into every AI implementation from day…
For most of medicine’s history, the evidence a clinician needed was scarce, scattered and difficult to retrieve at the point of care. Today, the problem has shifted. Clinicians are no longer practicing in an environment defined by too little information.…
Artificial intelligence has become a workforce issue as much as a technology one in healthcare, with 2026 bringing new evidence that clinicians are increasingly using AI while organizations continue to grapple with governance, training and labor concerns. Here’s what that…
I recently saw a commencement ceremony where something surprising happened: a commencement speaker was booed by the crowd. The speaker’s message? That the graduates entering the workforce today would be fine; that AI was just another technology shift, and that…
The country’s largest healthcare company is placing a bet on Anthropic. Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, is partnering with Anthropic “to responsibly bring AI to healthcare to help people live healthier lives, reduce the administrative burden, and make the health…
The industry conversation around healthcare AI has shifted. Health system leaders are no longer being asked whether to adopt the technology; they’re being held accountable for what adoption actually delivers. That accountability often rests on the answer to a simple…
AI-drafted responses to patient portal messages can take physicians more time to edit than it would take to write the replies from scratch, Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth researchers found. The team analyzed 146,000 messages exchanged between 10,105 patients and their primary…