Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
The AI industry’s leaders spent the past month warning that their models are gaining capabilities faster than anyone can verify they’re safe. Health systems are deploying versions of that same technology in places where mistakes reach patients. The warnings began…
The American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, Anthropic and Elevance Health are participating in a national workgroup developing recommendations for how state medical boards should oversee AI in medical practice, a spokesperson for the Federation of State Medical Boards confirmed…
As AI moves deeper into clinical care and back-office operations, a growing number of hospitals and health systems have created a C-suite role to oversee it. Becker’s list of organizations with dedicated AI leadership now includes more than 20, from…
For years, the dominant model for health system technology relationships followed a predictable arc. A vendor sold a product, supported an implementation, and largely exited. Whether the tool delivered on its original promise became the health system’s problem to work…
Health systems are not running out of AI products to consider. The harder problem is deciding which ones warrant the attention and in what order. The market for AI tools has outpaced the governance structures most organizations built to assess…
Utah’s experiment with letting AI handle part of a physician’s job grew considerably this month. The state approved what one company calls the nation’s first AI to write new prescriptions, gave two Salt Lake City-based health systems a fast track…
States continue to set their own rules for AI in healthcare, from patient disclosure requirements and limits on AI therapy to guardrails on AI in prior authorization. Lawmakers in 47 states introduced more than 250 bills regulating AI in healthcare…
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City found that adding a brief safety reminder to prompts reduced potentially harmful clinical choices in 19 of 20 large language models tested. The study, published Sept.…
Fortune recognized five healthcare companies on its 2026 “AIQ 75” ranking. Fortune partnered with Enterprise Technology Research and pulled from ServiceNow’s Enterprise AI Maturity Index. The team assessed how Fortune 500 companies, the largest U.S. companies by revenue, deploy AI…
The Austin, Texas-based University of Texas System is expanding access to Abridge’s AI-powered clinical documentation and clinician intelligence platform through a new enterprisewide agreement. The agreement, according to an Oct. 8 news release from Abridge, establishes a systemwide framework for…