Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy’s partnership with Microsoft is bringing back what the health system’s Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive, Stephanie Clements, describes as “invisible care.” Mercy began collaborating with Microsoft in 2023 with the goal of using generative AI…
West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health has become the first health system to sign on to Mayo Clinic’s new AI and digital transformation program. The Rochester, Minn.-based academic medical center launched Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights on Nov. 3, offering its AI…
As AI becomes more common in clinical practice, policymakers risk creating rules that benefit only large health systems unless they account for the needs of smaller providers, a Kaiser Permanente leader warned. Daniel Yang, MD, vice president of AI and…
Artificial intelligence has evolved from experimental pilots to a foundational part of healthcare strategy. Across eight sessions at the Becker’s CEO + CFO Roundtable AI Summit, hospital and health system leaders described how they are moving beyond hype to build…
When UChicago Medicine began piloting ambient AI technology in an emergency department last year, physicians quickly found a limitation: the tool was optimized for outpatient encounters rather than the fast-paced ED environment where patients present with acute medical needs. Ambient…
As AI becomes embedded in more aspects of healthcare, health systems are at a crossroads: Should they rely on ambient documentation tools bundled with their EHRs or invest in more powerful third-party assistants? At Becker’s 13th Annual CEO + CFO…
ARC Innovation at Sheba Medical Center in Israel and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York unveiled a three-year collaboration with Nvidia to use large language model technology to accelerate genomic discovery. The initiative, according to…
While the vast majority of health system leaders are implementing or piloting AI, many don’t feel prepared to lead this transformation, the Healthcare Financial Management Association found. Here are four things to know from the Nov. 6 report that surveyed…
Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD, president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, doesn’t hesitate when asked about the future of healthcare: he believes a technological inflection point has finally arrived. For decades, health systems around the world have wrestled with the same unrelenting…
Patients are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for health information, driven by long wait times, high healthcare costs and dissatisfaction with clinical interactions, The New York Times reported Nov. 16. About 17% of adults said they use AI chatbots at…