Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Burlington-based University of Vermont has received a research and development contract worth up to $38 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to build AI-powered digital twins that help clinicians personalize treatment for critically ill patients. The contract…
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said AI can provide patients with a better-informed second opinion than any physician in the country, The New York Times reported Sept. 29. Speaking alongside Vice President JD Vance at the MAHA Summit in…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has given labor half the seats on a new AI Task Force with direct decision-making authority over technology investments, under a 2025 agreement with the Alliance of Health Care Unions detailed in a report by Cambridge,…
AI is quickly becoming one of the biggest strains on the U.S. power grid and health systems are not immune to the fallout. As hospitals move AI from pilot programs to enterprise-wide deployment, rising demand, grid constraints and yearslong interconnection…
OpenAI made three new tools available to ChatGPT for Healthcare customers among more than 20 announcements at its DevDay 2026 event Sept. 29. The first is Dots, which OpenAI describes as always-on agents that learn what matters to users and…
AI can perform care represented in 16% to 22% of U.S. outpatient claims, according to an analysis from McKinsey & Co. That work accounts for 13% to 19% of outpatient spending. The Sept. 28 analysis of 2024 commercial, Medicare and…
OpenAI has canceled the public release of GPT-6.1 Astra, its next-generation AI model, after internal testing found safety and alignment problems, the company confirmed to Becker’s. The model had been slated to debut in ChatGPT and Codex in October. It…
Over 1,000 nurses plan to march Sept. 30 in San Francisco to protest AI company Palantir’s work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. National Nurses United and its affiliate, California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing…
Most revenue cycle strategies begin after the patient leaves the room. By then, documentation gaps, missed codes and underdocumented complexity have already made their way into the clinical note. Becker’s Healthcare spoke with Kevin Wang, MD, Chief Medical Officer at…
Cooper Norcross Health is piloting Microsoft Dragon Copilot for nurses at Cooper Norcross University Hospital in Camden, N.J. During patient care, a nurse can start an ambient recording on a mobile device. Dragon Copilot uses the conversation and spoken observations…