Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Detroit-based Henry Ford Health has reduced stroke treatment times and improved patient outcomes with RapidAI, an artificial intelligence tool that accelerates CT scan analysis and care team coordination. The platform flags large vessel occlusions and delivers images and alerts to…
Epic Systems is preparing to launch its own AI-powered clinical documentation tool, marking the EHR giant’s formal entry into the ambient scribe market. The tool, expected to be announced in August, would position Epic alongside companies such as Abridge and…
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System found that artificial intelligence can help emergency department teams identify which patients are likely to need hospital admission hours earlier than current methods. For the two-month, seven-hospital study, researchers compared predictions from a…
As IT chiefs look to make their organizations AI-ready, they can follow four steps for success, CIO reported Aug. 11. 1. Staff according to your organization’s unique needs. That could include training current employees or bringing in outside leaders, from…
Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco-based Piramidal to test the world’s first artificial intelligence model trained to read brainwaves. The AI tool can scan a day’s worth of electroencephalogram data within seconds — a process that currently takes specialists…
The National Institutes of Health is cracking down on research applications written by AI. The agency said it will not consider applications that are “either substantially developed by AI, or contain sections substantially developed by AI, to be original ideas…
Google and NASA are collaborating on a new AI-powered tool aimed at enabling autonomous medical care for astronauts during extended space missions, including future journeys to the Moon and Mars. The project centers on the development of the Crew Medical…
Elon Musk says AI is “already better” than most physicians. The billionaire entrepreneur was responding to an Aug. 7 X post from AutismCapital highlighting a cancer survivor talking at an OpenAI presentation about how she used ChatGPT to challenge her…
Illinois has enacted a law banning the use of artificial intelligence in delivering therapy or psychotherapy services without oversight from licensed professionals. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act into law Aug. 1, prohibiting AI…
On Aug. 7, OpenAI released GPT-5 — its latest AI model — which the company says includes significant improvements in addressing health-related questions. The model performs considerably better than previous versions on HealthBench, a benchmark that uses real-world scenarios and…