Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Artificial intelligence in healthcare incorporates algorithms, machine learning, natural language processing and emerging AI technology to analyze complex medical data. Healthcare AI assists in diagnostic pathology, treatment planning and patient care management by facilitating greater efficiency and accuracy in clinical decisions, medical research and personalized medicine.
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24 Mar 2026
Using AI to balance nursing workloads in infusion centers
UCSF Health has implemented an AI capability that goes beyond scheduling and level-loading to even out workload burden across nurses in its infusion centers. Continue Reading
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23 Mar 2026
EHR giants have entered the AI arena. What does it mean for startups?
As EHR companies roll out native AI features, health AI startups are doubling down on their expertise, making plans to scale and exploring partnerships to maintain their edge. Continue Reading
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19 Mar 2026
Survey: AI uptake highest among neurologists, GI physicians
A new survey shows that AI adoption has increased since the end of 2025, but some specialties are adopting AI at higher rates than others. Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2026
Fitbit AI coach gains access to medical records in new update
New updates to Fitbit include the ability to link medical records with the wearable device, providing its AI health coach access to users' medical history and clinical data. Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2026
How AI scribes are shifting coding intensity, reimbursement
The proliferation of AI scribes for clinical documentation has started a shift in coding intensity, raising concerns about reimbursement and affordability. Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2026
Clinical AI gains ground in a resource-constrained hospital
For one rural hospital, improving access to clinical information drove the move toward AI implementation. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2026
Balancing AI innovation and risk: 5 takeaways from HIMSS26
The healthcare sector will increasingly adopt autonomous agents this year, but they’ll have to consider how to adapt their governance structures and manage cybersecurity risks as AI evolves. Continue Reading
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13 Mar 2026
Data privacy, AI safety assurances key to physician adoption of AI
AI utilization among U.S. physicians has doubled since 2023, but physicians highlighted the need for data privacy and validation of AI safety as key drivers of adoption in a new survey. Continue Reading
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12 Mar 2026
Microsoft joins the AI chatbot market with Copilot Health
Microsoft is framing Copilot Health as a complement to patient–provider relationships, but the company's own data suggest it's filling in where care access falters. Continue Reading
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12 Mar 2026
Epic doubles down on AI growth with rapid capability expansion
At HIMSS, Epic leaders highlighted success metrics for existing AI tools, outlined plans for further expansion and discussed their approach to iteration and governance. Continue Reading
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11 Mar 2026
Amazon expands Health AI chatbot to all customers
Amazon's move to expand its Health AI chatbot could help it gain greater traction in a growing consumer-facing health AI market. Continue Reading
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10 Mar 2026
Oura expands AI-driven capabilities with new acquisition
The wearables developer has acquired a Finland-based company that offers gesture recognition technology powered by AI, biometrics and human-computer interaction. Continue Reading
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10 Mar 2026
Managing shadow AI risks as healthcare embraces innovation
At HIMSS, experts spoke about managing shadow AI risk with governance, education and technical safeguards. Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2026
AWS Unveils Amazon Connect Health
Amazon Connect Health integrates with EHRs, providing agentic AI capabilities to ease clinicians’ administrative tasks so they can focus more on patient care. Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2026
AI ROI, agentic innovation in spotlight as HIMSS approaches
CVS, Humana, Waystar and other healthcare companies announced new agentic AI capabilities or demonstrated ROI for existing products ahead of HIMSS. Continue Reading
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03 Mar 2026
How health systems can navigate the rise of the consumer AI chatbot
Healthcare AI chatbots aren't going anywhere, so provider organizations need to determine the best path forward to enable patient engagement -- and patient safety. Continue Reading
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26 Feb 2026
OpenEvidence launches audio telehealth feature
The AI-based clinical search engine now includes a feature that allows clinicians to call, message and fax patients. Continue Reading
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25 Feb 2026
Oura unveils proprietary AI model for women's health
The proprietary LLM will provide personalized support and guidance about women's health to Oura Ring users. Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2026
First study of ChatGPT Health questions triage efficacy
The study, which is the first to assess OpenAI's ChatGPT Health tool, found that the system under-triages serious medical emergencies and mental health crises. Continue Reading
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23 Feb 2026
Agentic AI evolution begins to pave way for autonomous revenue cycle
A fully automated revenue cycle in which staff work hand-in-hand with AI is looming, but success will require a mature AI strategy. Continue Reading
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20 Feb 2026
The role of AI and humanics in training healthcare professionals
The integration of AI and humanics in education is shaping the future of healthcare, with an emphasis on empathy, innovation and whole-person care. Continue Reading
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18 Feb 2026
6 clinician training strategies for AI clinical decision support
Health system leaders share advice for creating consistent and effective clinician training programs to ensure responsible use of AI-based clinical decision support tools. Continue Reading
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11 Feb 2026
Standard for AI-based patient communication launches
The standard and accompanying framework aim to provide clear guidance and expectations for health AI tools that interact with patients. Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2026
How NGHS balances revenue cycle AI adoption, ROI
Northeast Georgia Health System is accelerating AI adoption, especially in revenue cycle management, but leaders have learned to balance speed of innovation with ongoing ROI. Continue Reading
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03 Feb 2026
Humana taps Google Cloud's agentic AI for member experience
Humana's Agent Assist uses agentic AI technology from Google Cloud to help member experience advocates manage high call volumes. Continue Reading
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03 Feb 2026
How a multi-agent AI system can help identify cognitive decline
Mass General Brigham researchers have created an open-source, multi-agent AI system that analyzes clinical notes to identify early cognitive decline without extra clinical work. Continue Reading
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03 Feb 2026
Are AI chatbots exposing healthcare's patient engagement limits?
Experts might be mixed in their reviews of AI chatbots for patients, but there's one thing they do agree on: there's a patient engagement gap, and AI is trying to fill it. Continue Reading
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02 Feb 2026
Two-thirds of Epic hospitals have adopted ambient AI tools
Ambient AI adoption was widespread among hospitals that use Epic EHRs, with factors like size, operating margins and geographic location influencing adoption, a study found. Continue Reading
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27 Jan 2026
How providers can navigate the patchwork of state health AI laws
To contend with the complex regulatory patchwork of state health AI laws, experts recommend that health systems adopt flexible, principles-based governance structures. Continue Reading
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26 Jan 2026
Study: AI scribes boost physician productivity, increase revenue
A recent study revealed that physicians are gaining productivity benefits from AI scribes without a detrimental effect on claim denials. Continue Reading
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26 Jan 2026
More patients use AI chatbots. Is this a patient safety risk?
With leading AI chatbots creating more tailored healthcare instances for patient users, leading industry groups fear hazards to patient safety. Continue Reading
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23 Jan 2026
‘Shadow AI’ use is widespread in healthcare: survey
More than 40% of respondents said they were aware of colleagues using AI tools that haven’t been approved by their organizations, a potential safety and privacy risk, according to the survey. Continue Reading
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22 Jan 2026
KLAS: Ambient AI tool delivers measurable ROI for health systems
Three large health systems that adopted an AI-powered clinical intelligence platform experienced reduced documentation burden, time savings and financial gain, KLAS found. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2026
Amazon One Medical unveils Health AI assistant for patients
Amazon One Medical's Health AI assistant is designed to help patients manage their healthcare experiences with the context of their digital medical records. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2026
Healthcare leaders expect AI maturity this year, especially in RCM
A new report shows low AI maturity despite widespread adoption in the revenue cycle. Still, leaders expect to mature rapidly over the next year or two as they confront data constraints. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2026
How an AI scribe is alleviating burdens at an FQHC
A rural West Virginia-based FQHC implemented an AI scribe tool that is mitigating challenges, such as overdue documentation, and improving clinician recruitment. Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2026
KLAS: Ambient speech remains healthcare's top AI use case
Leaders are cautious about higher stakes, care-transformative applications, a new KLAS report shows. Continue Reading
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13 Jan 2026
Waystar adds agentic AI in move to 'autonomous' revenue cycle
The healthcare payment software vendor announced new agentic AI capabilities as part of its journey to make the revenue cycle autonomous. Continue Reading
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12 Jan 2026
Claude for Healthcare launches
The new platform supports various healthcare tasks, including prior authorization reviews, patient message triage and health record summarizations. Continue Reading
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08 Jan 2026
Patients send 2M messages to ChatGPT. How can docs respond?
Healthcare providers can adjust communication strategies to account for healthcare consumer use of AI tools like ChatGPT. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2026
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health for consumer use
OpenAI said ChatGPT Health can integrate a user's medical records to provide more tailored answers to health queries. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2026
AI adoption in healthcare will spark innovation and cyber risk in 2026
In 2026, AI will continue to drive innovation, highlighting cybersecurity, privacy and governance gaps in the process. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2026
2026: The year of uncertainty for healthcare financial leaders
Coming off a turbulent 2025, the new year raises questions about how change will impact financial operations; a renewed focus on affordability and AI may help leaders navigate 2026. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2026
Addressing concerns regarding health AI use in 2026
Clinicians are worrying about oversight and data transparency around health AI as well as the flood of tools. How should they prepare? Continue Reading
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23 Dec 2025
HHS seeks info to guide AI regulation, reimbursement
HHS is seeking feedback from stakeholders on regulations, reimbursement models and research initiatives that will accelerate AI adoption and use in healthcare. Continue Reading
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19 Dec 2025
Governance gaps threaten progress as healthcare AI adoption grows
Health systems are relying on AI faster than their governance structures can evolve, expanding the potential for data privacy gaps and regulatory risk, experts say. Continue Reading
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17 Dec 2025
What patients want to know about AI ambient scribing
UC Davis Health found patients want to know when AI ambient scribing is being used, that the tool is secure and that their information is transcribed accurately. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2025
Survey: A third of U.S. hospitals are early adopters of genAI
GenAI adoption varies across U.S. hospitals, with factors such as predictive AI use, EHR vendor and type of hospital impacting adoption rates, per a new survey. Continue Reading
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11 Dec 2025
New framework aims to drive ethical AI use in mental health
Spring Health has introduced an ethical AI framework for mental health amid an FDA committee review of generative AI digital mental health devices. Continue Reading
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05 Dec 2025
HHS outlines strategy to expand AI adoption
Although the strategy is internally focused, HHS said it will collaborate with the private sector and identify “priority” conditions and health issues that could be addressed with AI tools. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2025
How AI, VR are improving workforce well-being at Duke Health
Duke Health is using AI and virtual reality tools, developed in collaboration with its staff, to support clinical decision-making and enhance workforce safety. Continue Reading
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25 Nov 2025
Healthcare AI adoption lags behind other sectors
AI adoption among healthcare organizations increased between 2023 and 2025, but it still lags behind sectors such as information services and finance, new research reveals. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2025
How digital twin tech could boost type 2 diabetes outcomes
A Cleveland Clinic study reveals that AI digital twin technology supports day-to-day diabetes management, enabling patients to reduce their reliance on diabetes medications. Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2025
Outdated systems, shadow AI threaten healthcare cybersecurity
Outdated technology, shadow AI and inefficient IT systems are fueling healthcare cybersecurity challenges, clinician burnout and patient safety concerns, new data shows. Continue Reading
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14 Nov 2025
Survey: AI, digital health key to expanding health system capacity
Health system leaders emphasized the crucial role that AI and digital health technology play in enhancing health system capacity, alongside other strategic priorities. Continue Reading
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14 Nov 2025
HSCC previews upcoming AI cybersecurity guidance
The AI cybersecurity guidance will focus on the interdependencies between several critical AI workstreams, including governance, third-party risk and education and enablement. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2025
Consortium aims to ease tensions among nurses over AI
The Nursing and AI Innovation Consortium has formed to unite clinicians, educators and industry leaders in a strategy to integrate AI in nursing, despite concerns over the technology. Continue Reading
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12 Nov 2025
Why nurses are key to building patient health literacy about AI
Nurses could effectively help build patient health literacy about AI, but they themselves must be empowered with information about the technology. Continue Reading
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06 Nov 2025
Evaluating AI tools for healthcare cybersecurity in a saturated market
As AI-powered tools continue to flood the market, thorough risk assessments are crucial for ensuring that organizations choose the right products and partners. Continue Reading
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06 Nov 2025
How health systems can build an AI-ready data infrastructure
Cedars-Sinai's chief AI officer shares strategies health systems can employ to create a robust data infrastructure that supports AI implementation and accelerates adoption. Continue Reading
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03 Nov 2025
Hippocratic AI snags $126M, valuation soars to $3.5B
The company's AI agents perform numerous tasks, including appointment scheduling and patient outreach, underpinned by patient safety frameworks. Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2025
7 in 10 patients concerned AI will drive unfair claims denials
While patients worry about AI fairness, they recognize the potential the technology has to increase efficiency and potentially access to care. Continue Reading
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27 Oct 2025
CAIA turns to federated learning, AI agents for cancer research
The Cancer AI Alliance launched a federated learning platform and will pilot Asta DataVoyager, an Ai2 data analysis AI agent, to ask questions of datasets in plain language. Continue Reading
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21 Oct 2025
AMA unveils Center for Digital Health and AI
The new center aims to create opportunities for physicians to shape the development and regulation of health AI and digital health tools. Continue Reading
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20 Oct 2025
How AI agents scale personalized diabetes care
Salesforce Agentforce allows Precina Health to scale personalized support for type 2 diabetes patients and enable physician access to clinical data across multiple systems. Continue Reading
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16 Oct 2025
Navigating the 'AI-powered' digital healthcare boom
AI-powered digital health tools are flooding the market, but providers must look beyond marketing hype and evaluate their vendors to select the right tools for their needs. Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2025
Teladoc Health launches AI to curb violence in hospitals
The virtual care company is integrating new AI features into its Clarity monitoring solution that analyzes audio and video cues to identify threatening behavior in hospitals. Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2025
Athenahealth revamps revenue cycle management in the era of AI
Athenahealth is adding AI features to its practice and revenue cycle management capabilities, at no additional cost, as the health IT company leans toward becoming AI native. Continue Reading
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07 Oct 2025
Qualtrics buys Press Ganey for $6.75B, cites AI and patient data
Qualtrics and Press Ganey Forsta stated that the combination will help bring together their respective AI technology and patient experience insights. Continue Reading
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30 Sep 2025
Building AI foundation models to accelerate digital pathology
Mayo Clinic has deployed NVIDIA's Blackwell-powered DGX SuperPOD to accelerate AI foundation model development for digital pathology, enhancing diagnosis accuracy and treatment. Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2025
Health IT pros talk AI transparency in the patient experience
As AI permeates more patient experiences, healthcare experts say AI transparency will be key to ensuring patient trust. Continue Reading
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26 Sep 2025
Hospital adoption of EHR-integrated predictive AI spikes
Hospital predictive AI adoption rose to 71% in 2024, with most using AI models developed by their EHR vendors for billing and patient risk identification, federal data reveals. Continue Reading
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24 Sep 2025
Shadow AI in healthcare: The hidden risk to data security
In addition to traditional shadow IT, shadow AI can make healthcare organizations vulnerable to patient data exposure and compliance troubles. Continue Reading
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16 Sep 2025
New AI method mitigates bias in health datasets
Mount Sinai researchers' new AI method has the potential to significantly reduce bias in the datasets used in development, which would, in turn, make health AI more equitable. Continue Reading
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11 Sep 2025
AMA releases CPT 2026 code set, adds codes for health AI
The American Medical Association released the Current Procedural Terminology 2026 code set, adding 288 new codes for emerging services like remote patient monitoring and health AI. Continue Reading
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11 Sep 2025
K Health to "Make Health Tech Great Again" with AI virtual care
K Health pledged to improve health tech as part of CMS' new initiative, with plans to focus on patient consent and interoperability while maintaining clinical oversight. Continue Reading
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10 Sep 2025
Oracle Health's patient portal AI takes aim at medical jargon
Oracle's patient portal AI tool sets out to translate complex medical jargon amid trends of low patient health literacy levels. Continue Reading
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09 Sep 2025
Strive Health snags $550M for AI-driven kidney care
Strive Health plans to use the funds from the Series D round to support strategic partnerships, expand its services, and enhance its AI-driven kidney care model. Continue Reading
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08 Sep 2025
What is athenahealth Inc.?
Athenahealth, Inc., provides cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) systems, revenue cycle management (RCM) tools, patient engagement tools, and point-of-care mobile applications. Continue Reading
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05 Sep 2025
Execs prioritizing health AI, but adoption barriers persist
Health AI remains a key technology priority for healthcare executives; however, new survey results show hurdles to adoption, including appropriate AI utilization. Continue Reading
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26 Aug 2025
Public companies linked to 92% of AI medical device recalls
Most AI medical device recalls were linked to publicly traded companies, with established public companies' recalled devices often lacking clinical validation, new research shows. Continue Reading
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21 Aug 2025
Ambient AI scribes reduce clinician burnout, boost well-being
New research underscores ambient AI scribe technology's positive impact on clinician well-being, with data showing significant declines in burnout linked to the technology's use. Continue Reading
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19 Aug 2025
How patients are using generative AI to find a doctor
With more patients using generative AI to find a doctor, clinics and hospitals need to dial into online reputation management to ensure AI generates accurate information. Continue Reading
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14 Aug 2025
From CAC to autonomous, AI heralds medical coding's future
AI is pushing medical coding to its next era, in which autonomous coding can scale across all specialties, automate up to 90% of cases and drive revenue integrity. Continue Reading
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13 Aug 2025
What is HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society)?
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a nonprofit organization focused on promoting the best use of IT and management systems to advance the healthcare industry. Continue Reading
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13 Aug 2025
Kaiser's AI patient portal success hinges on quality checks
The AI patient portal tool from Kaiser Permanente uses natural language process to support patient navigation and streamline appointment scheduling. Continue Reading
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12 Aug 2025
Doximity acquires AI-powered clinical decision support tool
The digital healthcare provider network is adding Pathway Medical's AI-driven clinical reference tool to its suite of solutions through a $63 million acquisition. Continue Reading
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07 Aug 2025
Illinois 1st US state to ban AI in mental healthcare
Illinois has banned the use of AI in providing mental healthcare amid rising concerns about AI chatbots causing patient harm, including enabling dangerous behavior. Continue Reading
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06 Aug 2025
KLAS: Training and governance needed to address EHR burnout
Providers report documentation, messaging and interoperability hurdles when using EHRs, but they see ambient AI as a solution, KLAS revealed. Continue Reading
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05 Aug 2025
How health systems are facilitating AI governance
Health systems are employing numerous AI governance strategies to ensure safe and equitable technology use, including setting up steering committees and creating frameworks. Continue Reading
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05 Aug 2025
Going from agentic AI hype to revenue cycle reality
Revenue cycle management has set its sights on agentic AI to solve major pain points, but there are some implementation considerations before the tech can deliver on its promises. Continue Reading
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04 Aug 2025
How AI medical scribes reclaim provider time, claim denials
An AI medical scribe for clinical documentation is helping Onvida Health prevent claim denials while giving clinicians more face-to-face time with their patients. Continue Reading
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31 Jul 2025
AI helps docs, patients tackle medication adherence challenges
Healthcare organizations are using AI tools to cut down on patient resistance regarding treatment plans and improve medication compliance. Continue Reading
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30 Jul 2025
Ambience Healthcare secures $243M for AI clinical documentation
The funds raised in the Series C round will be used to expand the AI clinical documentation and coding platform across health systems. Continue Reading
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29 Jul 2025
Top use cases for agentic AI in revenue cycle management
High-value use cases for agentic AI in revenue cycle management are emerging as early adopters realize greater efficiencies, automation and payment accuracy. Continue Reading
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24 Jul 2025
Aidoc gets $150M to support AI foundation model development
The health AI company plans to use the new funds to continue developing its CARE foundation model and aiOS clinical AI operating platform. Continue Reading
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24 Jul 2025
How to request patient consent for using ambient listening
Organizations should consider multiple touchpoints for obtaining patient consent for using ambient listening in clinical documentation. Continue Reading
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24 Jul 2025
Exploring industry efforts to guide health AI adoption, use
With little federal guidance on health AI, industry groups have taken it upon themselves to offer guidance and guardrails to support safe and responsible AI use in healthcare. Continue Reading
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23 Jul 2025
Century Health, Nimbus Health curate EHR pulmonary disease datasets
The partnership will draw on EHR data to gain insights into the progression and treatment of COPD and asthma. Continue Reading
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22 Jul 2025
The next big thing: Agentic AI for revenue cycle management
Agentic AI is the next big thing in healthcare, carrying promises to tackle revenue cycle management's biggest challenges, including staffing shortages and workflow inefficiencies. Continue Reading
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17 Jul 2025
Physician AI use damages patient trust, perceived competence
New research shows that physicians using AI for administrative, diagnostic or therapeutic purposes may be viewed negatively by patients, highlighting barriers to health AI use. Continue Reading
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17 Jul 2025
What is pattern recognition?
Pattern recognition is the ability to detect arrangements of characteristics in data that yields information about a given system or data set. Continue Reading