Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Assort Health raised $120 million in Series C funding and is expanding its AI-powered patient access platform into health systems. The funding round, led by Menlo Ventures, values the company at $1.2 billion and brings its total funding to more…
Big tech is shedding workers by the thousands — the type of talent hospital IT departments have spent years trying to recruit. Are health systems taking advantage? For some, yes; for others, the right candidates have never been more available,…
Software firm Pendo recently named 23-year-old Zain Lakhani its chief AI officer — part of a small but growing trend of companies elevating Gen Z “AI natives” to the C-suite, The Wall Street Journal reported June 25. “He’s got experiences…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has reduced MRI patient wait times by more than 60% in its Northwest region using an FDA-cleared AI tool that shortens scan duration without degrading image quality. The AI solution reduces image noise during MRI scans,…
For years, AI has mostly played a supporting role in clinical care — flagging a suspicious scan, drafting a note, summarizing a chart. Federal health officials are now reaching for something far more autonomous: AI agents that can take clinical…
AI has the potential to lift everyone — not just the innovators and early adopters.
UC Berkeley (Calif.) researchers have developed an AI model that identifies sudden cardiac death risk from standard electrocardiograms more accurately than current clinical tests, according to a study published in Nature. The team trained the algorithm on more than 440,000…
Healthcare AI company Magical received high marks from customers in a recent KLAS Emerging Company Spotlight report examining early experiences with the company’s autonomous AI agent platform for healthcare operations. The report, “Magical 2026: Automating Complex Healthcare Workflows Through Autonomous…
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System will evaluate Signal 1’s AI Management Platform to unify governance and performance monitoring across its growing portfolio of AI tools. AIMS gives Mount Sinai a single system to track every AI tool in…
Cadence, a clinical AI company focused on chronic disease management, has raised $100 million in Series C funding and announced new partnerships with Duke Health and Texas Health Resources as it expands its footprint among health systems. The funding round…