Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
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…
Health systems are updating their AI governance policies to keep pace with rapid advances in the technology and growing interest among frontline teams. Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and Cleveland Clinic shared how their internal frameworks for managing AI have evolved…
The pace of change for AI in healthcare is surprising even seasoned IT leaders, moving beyond automation and generative AI to now include multimodal capabilities. Multimodal AI can process and integrate multiple data types — such as images and text…
A 2024 paper and blog post unveiling Google’s healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, mentioned “basilar ganglia” — a body part that doesn’t exist, The Verge reported. After neurologist and researcher Bryan Moore, MD, discovered the mistake, Google fixed the blog post…
Hospital and health system executives are integrating AI into their workflows to support strategic planning and market analysis, while creating standards and erecting guardrails to ensure that the technology complements — rather than replaces — critical thinking in leadership. Bob…
The White House’s recent release of “America’s AI Action Plan” has drawn mixed but largely optimistic reactions from hospital and health system CIOs, who see it as both a strategic opportunity and a call for careful implementation. The 25-page plan,…
Emerging technologies such as AI continue to command CIOs’ attention. Here is the emerging tech prioritized by IT chiefs, according to a global survey of more than 200 CIOs by market researcher Futurum published July 28: 1. AI/machine learning-enabled technology…
Leaders from companies such as Amazon, Ford and JPMorgan Chase have predicted that AI will replace a slew of jobs in the future. But will that hold true in healthcare as well? Health system leaders told Becker’s that AI has…
The venture capital arms of Pittsburgh-based UPMC and UChicago Medicine have invested in a healthcare AI startup as part of a $55 million series C funding round. UPMC Enterprises and UCM Ventures backed Ultromics, which says it offers the first…
Health systems are increasing their adoption of Microsoft’s ambient AI for clinical documentation. Here are four things to know from a July 30 Microsoft earnings call: 1. Microsoft had a “breakout” fiscal 2025 for the use of its Dragon Copilot…