Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
I recently saw a commencement ceremony where something surprising happened: a commencement speaker was booed by the crowd. The speaker’s message? That the graduates entering the workforce today would be fine; that AI was just another technology shift, and that…
The country’s largest healthcare company is placing a bet on Anthropic. Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, is partnering with Anthropic “to responsibly bring AI to healthcare to help people live healthier lives, reduce the administrative burden, and make the health…
The industry conversation around healthcare AI has shifted. Health system leaders are no longer being asked whether to adopt the technology; they’re being held accountable for what adoption actually delivers. That accountability often rests on the answer to a simple…
AI-drafted responses to patient portal messages can take physicians more time to edit than it would take to write the replies from scratch, Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth researchers found. The team analyzed 146,000 messages exchanged between 10,105 patients and their primary…
As AI floods the EHR, a quieter question is arising: What are health systems turning off? Every major EHR vendor is in the same race right now. Epic has more than 150 AI features and enhancements in development for 2026,…
OpenEvidence outperformed Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-5.5 on real-world clinical questions in a new physician-graded study, contradicting a June Nature Medicine paper that found general-purpose AI models beat specialized clinical tools. The study, posted June 27 as…
Technology services company UST is integrating Anthropic’s Claude into CarePath, a platform providers and payers use to run claims processing, care management and member services. Claude connects CarePath directly to underlying claims and care systems, turning fragmented health data into…
Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Health implemented several AI applications that have revolutionized operations and clinical care in the last year. One of the most productive has been revolutionizing OR block utilization to fill the open spaces and help surgeons…
NewYork-Presbyterian will deploy OpenEvidence’s clinical AI tool across all of its hospitals and care sites. The tool will also be available to the New York City-based health system’s academic partners, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill…
Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health is partnering with Vega Health to deploy an AI-powered patient screening tool for its hospital-at-home program. The collaboration marks Baptist’s first integration of Vega Health’s AI infrastructure platform, according to a July 9 news release from…