Pittsburgh-based UPMC has spent the last several months planning to unify its 40 hospitals and 800-plus locations under a single instance of Epic EHR. The health system has around 10 disparate instances and bringing them together has been a monumental…

The FDA on June 2 launched a generative artificial intelligence tool agencywide to improve internal workflows and staff efficiency. Four things to know. 1. The AI tool, Elsa, is currently being used to speed up the review of clinical trial…

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine and PathAI have entered a multi-year collaboration aimed at transforming pathology diagnostics through AI. Here are five things to know:

The White House updated its “Make America Healthy Again” report on childhood chronic disease after facing scrutiny from experts over the apparent use of artificial intelligence to generate citations, The Washington Post reported May 29. Of the 522 citations in…

Artificial intelligence is transforming all aspects of healthcare, including the workforce. But that doesn’t mean AI is replacing jobs; instead, health system leaders are leveraging the technology to empower teams and elevate leaders. The cultural transformation takes time and additional…

Minneapolis-based Allina Health has introduced an AI agent to help patients manage appointments, with plans to assist them with more tasks in the future. “Alli” answers calls within the 12-hospital system’s customer experience center, integrating with the EHR to verify…

Traditional clinical decision support tools outperform generative AI in diagnosing disease, Mass General Brigham researchers found. The Somerville, Mass.-based health system has had a diagnostic decision support system called DXplain since 1984. For a May 29 JAMA Network Open study,…

AI startup Anthropic is sounding the alarm on AI’s potential to reshape the workforce — and not in a good way, CNN reported May 29. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, told CNN in an interview that AI is on track…

Ambient Notes, a generative AI tool for clinical documentation, is the only AI application adopted by all surveyed health systems, according to research from Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health.  Eric Poon, MD, a researcher at Duke Health, and industry colleagues surveyed…

Younger workers are embracing artificial intelligence in the workplace — not only for day-to-day tasks but also as a career adviser. The finding is from a new survey published May 21 by career-building tool Resume.org. The survey of 8,647 full-time…