Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
The National Institutes of Health is cracking down on research applications written by AI. The agency said it will not consider applications that are “either substantially developed by AI, or contain sections substantially developed by AI, to be original ideas…
Google and NASA are collaborating on a new AI-powered tool aimed at enabling autonomous medical care for astronauts during extended space missions, including future journeys to the Moon and Mars. The project centers on the development of the Crew Medical…
Elon Musk says AI is “already better” than most physicians. The billionaire entrepreneur was responding to an Aug. 7 X post from AutismCapital highlighting a cancer survivor talking at an OpenAI presentation about how she used ChatGPT to challenge her…
Illinois has enacted a law banning the use of artificial intelligence in delivering therapy or psychotherapy services without oversight from licensed professionals. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act into law Aug. 1, prohibiting AI…
On Aug. 7, OpenAI released GPT-5 — its latest AI model — which the company says includes significant improvements in addressing health-related questions. The model performs considerably better than previous versions on HealthBench, a benchmark that uses real-world scenarios and…
Mount Sinai researchers have developed an AI-powered surgical training model that guided researchers through a complex kidney cancer procedure — with no human instructor present. All 17 trainees in the study successfully completed the simulation. Published in the Journal of…
Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures has invested in a $9.3 million funding round for an AI-powered startup that helps healthcare leaders select health IT vendors. The venture capital arm of the Los Angeles-based health system joined the oversubscribed seed investment for Elion.…
Providers at Renton, Wash.-based Providence are saving 2.5 hours a week of after-hours work with ambient AI, the health system’s researchers found. Here are five things to know from the July preproof study in Future Healthcare Journal: 1. The researchers…
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that widely used AI chatbots designed for medical support are vulnerable to repeating and elaborating on false health information. Published Aug. 2 in Communications Medicine, the study tested how…
Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, has a “robust” AI strategy with the ambitious goal of reducing clinical documentation by half to two-thirds, a leader told Becker’s. The 69-hospital system has over 40 AI use…