Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Hospital and health system CIOs are facing a fast-growing list of challenges — from the rapid rise of agentic AI to unrelenting cyberthreats and soaring technology costs — that are reshaping how they think about the future of healthcare IT.…
New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine’s department of pathology has developed an artificial intelligence tool that checks pathology reports against patient medical records to identify potential discrepancies. The tool, recently launched on a trial basis, cross-references pathology reports with…
In an era when nearly every hospital wants to be seen as innovative, a small but growing number of health systems are taking that ambition further — becoming the first to pilot emerging technologies and forge novel partnerships aimed at…
Hospitals are racing to integrate AI into daily care, but some nursing leaders worry the pace is outstripping the profession’s ability to understand the technology. At Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Marc Benoy, BSN, RN, sees that…
In the race to modernize healthcare technology, hospitals are learning an old lesson in a new way: Clean their plate before reaching for dessert. For Becket Mahnke, MD, chief medical information officer at Wenatchee, Wash.-based Confluence Health, that mantra is…
Epic plans to sunset its Workshop program as the EHR giant moves away from codeveloping with startups. The vendor launched the initiative, then called Partners and Pals, in 2023 to build software in partnership with outside companies, including AI scribe…
Microsoft is partnering with San Francisco-based Pangaea Data to integrate Dragon Copilot into the company’s clinical AI platform, building upon a “breakout” year for the technology. The collaboration brings Microsoft’s speech recognition and generative AI tools to bear on Pangaea’s…
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care created a ChatGPT-like tool that allows clinicians to ask questions in a patient’s EHR. Here is how the health system developed ChatEHR, whose user interface is embedded directly into Epic, according to an Oct.…
The top two ambient AI scribe vendors control nearly two-thirds of the $600 million market, Menlo Ventures reported. Here is where the companies rank in market share, according to the venture capital firm’s Oct. 21 report: 1. Microsoft/Nuance: 33% 2.…
U.S. health systems are making primary care a strategic priority, with most planning to expand their footprint and adopt AI tools to improve operations, according to new research from Bain & Company. The survey, conducted in June, includes responses from…