Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
UPMC Enterprises has joined a $13 series A financing round for BrainCheck, a digital health startup that uses AI to assess and care for cognitive conditions. Pittsburgh-based UPMC is among the 500 healthcare organizations employing the platform for screening and…
At Houston Methodist, flu season brings a predictable rise in patient volumes across the system. Emergency departments and ambulatory clinics feel the surge first. But from the perspective of Jordan Dale, MD, chief medical information and chief health AI officer,…
Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth is rolling out Abridge’s AI scribe across the organization after a successful nine-month pilot. The health system trialed the solution with 250 providers in 2025, experiencing improvements in patient experience and clinician workflows, before expanding it to…
Zafar Chaudry, MD, has spent 40 years in healthcare IT — the last 8.5 of them at Seattle Children’s, where he serves as senior vice president, chief digital officer and chief AI and information officer. He started his career as…
Ambience Healthcare has been named the 2026 KLAS/CHIME Trailblazer Award winner, an honor recognizing emerging vendors for innovation, impact and client success. The San Francisco-based company announced the award Feb. 23 in a news release. The Trailblazer Award — now…
Precision medicine is no longer a future promise — it is becoming a clinical expectation. The next decade of care will be shaped by multimodal data, real-time signals, and new generative AI-driven ways of investigating clinical and scientific questions. But…
For Alexander Khalessi, MD, chief innovation officer at UC San Diego Health, scaling AI in healthcare requires more than enthusiasm. “When you have the ambition to build something without precedent, it’s critical to lean into the combined capabilities, expertise, and…
Health systems are giving more and more duties to AI agents — though don’t expect them to replace physicians or nurses anytime soon. Agentic AI, which autonomously determines and executes the steps needed to achieve defined goals, is one area…
The American Hospital Association is calling on federal health officials to reduce regulatory barriers and ensure clinician oversight as artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into clinical care. In a Feb. 23 letter to the Department of Health and Human Services,…
As AI becomes more embedded in clinical workflows, nursing leaders are clear on one point: AI will not replace clinicians. But clinicians who know how to use AI — and leaders who know how to govern it — will have…