Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
A large study examining the use of AI chatbots for medical advice found that people using large language models did not make better health decisions than those relying on traditional sources and may be exposed to inaccurate and inconsistent guidance.…
With so much money flowing into healthcare AI and funding many unproven solutions that will ultimately fail, a correction will be good for medicine, a Health Affairs commentary argues. AI spending in healthcare outpaces other sectors by a factor of…
Ann Arbor, Mich.-based University of Michigan Health has developed an AI model capable of scanning brain MRIs in seconds. The model, dubbed Prima, detected neurological conditions with up to 97.5% accuracy and determined how urgently patients needed treatment, according to…
Randa Perkins, MD, is stepping into her new role as chief health information officer of Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health with a focus on listening first and building on the system’s strengths. Dr. Perkins, who previously served in clinical informatics leadership…
When Rob Purinton became chief AI officer at Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth in January 2025, he assumed first-year success would be defined by establishing governance and credibility. Instead, he found the real work was translating enthusiasm into measurable outcomes. “In…
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health now has 242 artificial intelligence applications live across its hospitals, up from 230 last year. “We are expanding our use of AI across CommonSpirit by deploying new capabilities and scaling the most impactful of our existing tools,”…
Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has developed a new AI foundation model that can extract disease risk signals from routine brain MRIs. The model was trained on nearly 49,000 brain MRI scans and outperformed task-specific AI models, according to a…
Albuquerque, N.M.-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services expanded its clinical AI platform to 200 primary care clinicians, marking the system’s first full deployment of the technology. The rollout follows a pilot that identified more than 200 patient conditions across 10,000 encounters and…
For nurses at Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, tech adoption hinges on one question: Does it improve patient care? “Nurses have long memories,” said Lavonia Thomas, DNP, RN, chief nursing informatics and innovation officer of MD Anderson.…
As automation and artificial intelligence move from pilots into daily revenue cycle operations, a new leadership role is taking shape inside health systems. Revenue cycle executives are increasingly acting as AI governance leaders, responsible not only for efficiency and accuracy,…