Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Nashville-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center has begun a two-year project to identify and address care discontinuity in patients with obesity, backed by a $1 million grant from Eli Lilly and Co. The project team plans to analyze electronic health records,…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic nurses and informatics teams have developed an in-house AI tool to help streamline clinical workflows. The tool, called the Nurse Virtual Assistant, integrates directly into Mayo’s EHR and provides a nurse-specific patient summary with links to…
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health is partnering with Hyro to deploy AI agents across voice, chat and SMS to extend self-service capabilities to patients . Sutter Health will integrate Hyro’s agentic AI tools into its systemwide operations to streamline functions such…
Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health is rolling out Ambience Healthcare’s AI platform across its ambulatory network. The platform aims to reduce clinician burnout and improve care quality by generating compliant, coding-aware documentation in real time. Ardent Chief Medical Officer FJ Campbell,…
Health systems across the U.S. are rapidly adopting AI to enhance patient care, streamline operations and reduce administrative burdens. From using AI to generate annual savings to developing AI models for earlier intervention, health systems are finding innovative ways to…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has developed a framework that uses computer modeling and electronic health records to simulate “virtual clinical trials” for heart failure treatments. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 60,000 patients with heart failure to emulate 226 completed phase…
Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network has implemented Gleamer AI’s BoneView technology across all of its hospital emergency departments and walk-in urgent care centers, becoming the first in the region to do so. The AI-powered application assists clinicians in…
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…