Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health has partnered with generative AI platform Qualified Health to expand AI across its enterprise. The collaboration incorporates Qualified Health’s governed platform to support “high-impact initiatives” throughout Jefferson’s multistate network, according to a Jan. 27 Qualified Health news…
When health systems moved quickly to appoint chief AI officers around 2024, the role was largely theoretical. A year or two later, the first wave of AI chiefs is discovering what the job actually demands. Over the past 18 to…
Nearly half of U.S. nurses report using generative artificial intelligence on the job, reflecting growing comfort with the technology even as concerns persist around safeguards, training and overreliance, according to a Jan. 27 report from Wolters Kluwer Health. The report,…
Faced with staffing shortages, administrative strain and geographic barriers, rural hospitals are increasingly adopting AI to expand care access and ease pressure on front-line teams. Rather than pursuing large-scale tech overhauls, many are implementing lightweight, targeted tools that support documentation,…
A research team led by the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo in New York has developed an artificial intelligence model that predicts which cardiac patients are at risk of hospital readmission within 90 days…
A nurse from Hackensack Meridian Health’s John Theurer Cancer Center in Hackensack, N.J., is on what she calls a “world tour” to raise awareness about a new AI-powered clinical tool designed to help frontline clinicians quickly surface critical patient information.…
UT Health San Antonio deployed an AI agent for a recent compliance shift, saving up to $80,000 annually. The organization created the tool to meet Joint Commission certification requirements as it converted its ambulatory clinics to hospital outpatient departments in…
Administrators at large U.S. health systems are significantly more concerned about data breaches and privacy risks tied to AI than their counterparts at smaller organizations, a Jan. 23 survey from Wolters Kluwer Health found. The findings come from an online…
Three large health systems reported measurable financial gains and reduced documentation burdens after deploying an ambient clinical documentation platform, according to a Jan. 22 KLAS Research analysis examining real-world return on investment. Baton Rouge, La.-based FMOL Health, Florence, S.C.-based McLeod…
Researchers at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine have developed an AI model that can predict which premature infants are likely to develop serious medical complications. Researchers analyzed blood samples from 13,536 newborns born more than 10 weeks early in California between 2005…