Artificial Intelligence
In May 1954, Roger Bannister did something the medical establishment had declared physiologically impossible: he ran a mile in under…
Mount Sinai researchers have developed an AI-powered surgical training model that guided researchers through a complex kidney cancer procedure — with no human instructor present. All 17 trainees in the study successfully completed the simulation. Published in the Journal of…
Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures has invested in a $9.3 million funding round for an AI-powered startup that helps healthcare leaders select health IT vendors. The venture capital arm of the Los Angeles-based health system joined the oversubscribed seed investment for Elion.…
Providers at Renton, Wash.-based Providence are saving 2.5 hours a week of after-hours work with ambient AI, the health system’s researchers found. Here are five things to know from the July preproof study in Future Healthcare Journal: 1. The researchers…
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that widely used AI chatbots designed for medical support are vulnerable to repeating and elaborating on false health information. Published Aug. 2 in Communications Medicine, the study tested how…
Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, has a “robust” AI strategy with the ambitious goal of reducing clinical documentation by half to two-thirds, a leader told Becker’s. The 69-hospital system has over 40 AI use…
Health systems are updating their AI governance policies to keep pace with rapid advances in the technology and growing interest among frontline teams. Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and Cleveland Clinic shared how their internal frameworks for managing AI have evolved…
The pace of change for AI in healthcare is surprising even seasoned IT leaders, moving beyond automation and generative AI to now include multimodal capabilities. Multimodal AI can process and integrate multiple data types — such as images and text…
A 2024 paper and blog post unveiling Google’s healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, mentioned “basilar ganglia” — a body part that doesn’t exist, The Verge reported. After neurologist and researcher Bryan Moore, MD, discovered the mistake, Google fixed the blog post…
Hospital and health system executives are integrating AI into their workflows to support strategic planning and market analysis, while creating standards and erecting guardrails to ensure that the technology complements — rather than replaces — critical thinking in leadership. Bob…
The White House’s recent release of “America’s AI Action Plan” has drawn mixed but largely optimistic reactions from hospital and health system CIOs, who see it as both a strategic opportunity and a call for careful implementation. The 25-page plan,…