Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Generative AI startup Anthropic has been commanding attention from health system executives in the days since it launched Claude for Healthcare. The company, with a reported valuation of $350 billion and the backing of a who’s who of Big Tech…
Several major U.S. health systems are backing Vista AI’s effort to automate MRI scanning as hospitals grapple with workforce shortages and rising imaging demand. Vista AI, based in Palo Alto, Calif., said in a Jan. 14 news release that it…
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham plans to expand Care Connect, its AI-powered virtual primary care platform, to all insured patients in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, NPR reported. The academic health system rolled out Care Connect in September, offering patients 24/7…
Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health has developed an AI tool that uses Google’s machine learning technology to synthesize two years’ worth of provider notes in seconds. The tool was created by the health system’s data science team to reduce clerical…
“All things AI.” That’s what Matt Weger, senior vice president and CIO of Columbus-based OhioHealth, is focusing on in 2026. So are 12 of his peers from across the industry. From agentic to conversational to generative, the next 12 months…
Modest but meaningful increases in clinical billing productivity could, when aggregated across many clinicians, help justify AI scribe costs, according to research published in JAMA Network Open. Here are four takeaways from the Jan. 9 study by researchers at University…
OpenAI has acquired Torch, a healthcare startup focused on unifying lab results, medication data and visit recordings. The company announced the deal in a post on X. “Bringing this together with ChatGPT Health opens up a new way to understand…
Anthropic has launched Claude for Healthcare, the latest generative AI company to customize its offerings for specific healthcare use cases across providers, payers and biotech. The AI startup, which is reportedly valued at $350 billion, rolled out the platform Jan.…
AI scribes most help physicians who document more to begin with, according to research in the American Journal of Managed Care. Here are five takeaways from the Jan. 8 study by researchers affiliated with University of California San Francisco and…
ChatGPT Health, the new platform from OpenAI, was developed with the help of 260 physicians from across the world. Many of those same physicians participated in HealthBench, OpenAI’s tool that evaluates how well its large language models perform on real-world…