Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
The White House updated its “Make America Healthy Again” report on childhood chronic disease after facing scrutiny from experts over the apparent use of artificial intelligence to generate citations, The Washington Post reported May 29. Of the 522 citations in…
Artificial intelligence is transforming all aspects of healthcare, including the workforce. But that doesn’t mean AI is replacing jobs; instead, health system leaders are leveraging the technology to empower teams and elevate leaders. The cultural transformation takes time and additional…
Minneapolis-based Allina Health has introduced an AI agent to help patients manage appointments, with plans to assist them with more tasks in the future. “Alli” answers calls within the 12-hospital system’s customer experience center, integrating with the EHR to verify…
Traditional clinical decision support tools outperform generative AI in diagnosing disease, Mass General Brigham researchers found. The Somerville, Mass.-based health system has had a diagnostic decision support system called DXplain since 1984. For a May 29 JAMA Network Open study,…
AI startup Anthropic is sounding the alarm on AI’s potential to reshape the workforce — and not in a good way, CNN reported May 29. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, told CNN in an interview that AI is on track…
Ambient Notes, a generative AI tool for clinical documentation, is the only AI application adopted by all surveyed health systems, according to research from Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health. Eric Poon, MD, a researcher at Duke Health, and industry colleagues surveyed…
Younger workers are embracing artificial intelligence in the workplace — not only for day-to-day tasks but also as a career adviser. The finding is from a new survey published May 21 by career-building tool Resume.org. The survey of 8,647 full-time…
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health has become the first health system in the U.S. to integrate a new intelligent automation technology in its molecular laboratory. The system, known as Molecular Process Optimization, was developed by Roche Diagnostics. It combines new…
In 2025, CIOs plan to focus on transforming their businesses with AI, while making them more secure, CIO reported May 27. Here are IT leaders’ nine top focus areas for this year, according to the publication’s State of the CIO…
Will AI reduce hospital administrative staff? Seventy-one percent of respondents to a survey published in May by venture capital firm Venrock say yes. Here are AI’s biggest healthcare impacts, according to the survey of 278 respondents, which included health tech…