Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
UMass Chan Medical School’s Health AI Assurance Laboratory signed a memorandum of understanding with Red Cell Partners, an investment firm and incubator, to develop a variety of artificial intelligence products in the healthcare space. As part of the two-year agreement,…
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health is partnering with health AI company Layer Health to streamline how it manages clinical data. The multi-year collaboration, announced in a June 17 news release from Layer Health, includes a strategic investment from Intermountain Ventures,…
Charleston, S.C.-based MUSC Health is expanding agentic AI to boost scheduling, voice notifications and revenue cycle functions. The 16-hospital system has been working with healthcare AI company Notable since 2021 but has extended its contract to add more automated workflows,…
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services has rolled out an AI agent to call and check in on patients after they’re discharged from the hospital. The 29-hospital system originally launched the AI agent at Las Vegas-based Summerlin Hospital Medical…
As hospitals increasingly adopt AI to assist with documentation, a team at Duke University in Durham, N.C., is offering new tools to help ensure those technologies are safe and effective for patient care. In two newly published studies, Duke researchers…
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care has tapped a virtual care company to provide pulmonary rehabilitation to COPD patients at home. Kivo Health provides AI-powered virtual pulmonary rehab and care. The treatment model aims to improve access and outcomes and…
Agentic AI is making its way into healthcare, and Minneapolis-based Allina Health is one of the early adopters of the technology. The 12-hospital system recently launched “Alli,” an AI agent that answers calls and handles tasks such as canceling an…
Health systems across the U.S. are accelerating partnerships with tech companies to embed AI into clinical care, operations and administrative workflows. In June, Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic partnered with hellocare.ai, an AI-assisted virtual care platform, to advance ambient clinical intelligence.…
Artificial intelligence and digital technology rapidly transformed healthcare delivery in the last 18 months. What will be possible in the next three years because of technology? Five leaders in health IT talked about their vision for the future with Becker’s.…
Ambient AI helped the Permanente Medical Group, part of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, save nearly 16,000 hours in documentation time over a 15-month period, the health system found. Between October 2023 and December 2024, 7,260 Permanente Medical Group physicians used…