Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Primary care has become one of the most stressed corners of American medicine. Patients are living longer with chronic illnesses that demand constant management, yet physicians are in short supply and burning out at high rates. At Somerville, Mass.-based Mass…
A team of Stanford University researchers developed benchmarks for measuring the accuracy and effectiveness of AI agents to assist physicians and published their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine AI. The team tested how well large language models…
Oracle sent its stock soaring 36%, according to Reuters, adding about $234 billion to its market value last week after unveiling its quarterly financial report and announcing a new AI cloud strategy. Wall Street is betting big on Oracle’s ability…
With a growing demand for precision medicine, health systems are increasingly turning to digital innovation to enhance patient care. To explore this shift, Becker’s Healthcare spoke with Christopher Garcia, MD, chief digital innovation officer at Mayo Clinic Laboratories, about how…
New Haven, Conn.-based Yale New Haven Health, Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of USC and Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare have joined the Aegis Digital Consortium, a collaboration of 14 regional health systems working to develop AI-powered health technologies. The consortium aims to…
New York City-based Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital has established the Samuel Fineman Cardiac Catheterization Artificial Intelligence Research Lab. Annapoorna Kini, MD, director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at the Mount Sinai Hospital, was named director of the new research…
Healthcare’s next chapter is being written by AI, and it’s all about giving time, focus, and humanity back to clinicians. That’s why Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOLHS) has partnered with Suki to reduce administrative burden for its…
The FDA will convene its Digital Health Advisory Committee Nov. 6 to discuss the use of generative artificial intelligence-based digital mental health medical devices. The virtual meeting, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time, will be open to…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said nursing is one profession unlikely to be replaced by AI, even as other white-collar jobs face disruption, Fortune reported Sept. 11. In an interview on The Tucker Carlson Show, Mr. Altman said patients will continue…
Some new college graduates with AI expertise are making as much as $1 million a year, according to the Wall Street Journal. But health system CIOs say the trend looks very different inside healthcare. The Wall Street Journal reported Aug.…