Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Health system leaders are racing to deploy artificial intelligence, but Tomas Gregorio, senior vice president and chief digital information officer at Care New England Health System in Providence, R.I., believes the industry is outrunning its ability to govern it. Care…
AI has outperformed physicians on emergency diagnoses, flagged pancreatic cancer up to three years early and beat specialized clinical software on medical benchmarks across several studies Becker’s has covered in recent months. But the studies raise as many questions as…
Mayo Clinic is helping develop AI-powered tools designed to expand access to hospital-level care in rural and underserved communities through a federally funded initiative aimed at bringing medical services closer to patients’ homes. The Rochester, Minn.-based health system is participating…
Boston Children’s Hospital has deployed more than 50 automations across the organization, generating more than 30,000 hours in time savings during the first half of 2026 alone, according to John Brownstein, PhD, chief innovation officer and senior vice president. The…
OpenAI said a physician panel rated its new GPT-5.5 Instant model higher than responses written by physicians on a set of real-world health questions. The AI developer said more than 230 million people use ChatGPT each week for health and…
Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University and OpenAI confirmed 18 diagnoses after using an AI-assisted workflow to reanalyze previously unsolved rare disease cases. The study, published June 18 in NEJM AI, involved 376 cases spanning neurodevelopmental disorders, neuromuscular diseases,…
Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has partnered with Vizlitics on AI tools for cancer clinical trial matching and data management. Northwestern worked with Vizlitics for two years to help design and develop the tools, which the system has now officially activated, according…
When an AI agent goes off script, how do health systems react? And what is the script for such a new technology? At Canton, Ohio-based Aultman Health System, the moment came from an internal employee handbook agent the team built…
A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI that includes scrutiny of how the company handles consumer health data, according to a subpoena viewed by The Wall Street Journal. New York Attorney General Letitia James served…
Researchers at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have developed BRIDGE, a multilingual benchmark that found large language models perform far better on medical licensing exams than actual patient-care tasks. The benchmark evaluates how well LLMs understand clinical text — including…