More than 90% of newly surveyed healthcare leaders expect AI adoption will help make or break their institution’s prospects for success over the long haul, meaning five years out and beyond. …

In 2018, almost three-quarters of Americans believed AI would eliminate more jobs than it stood to create. Almost a quarter expected healthcare to be among the earliest and hardest hit of all employment sectors…

For AI to achieve sweeping adoption across U.S. medicine, physicians will need to be assured they won’t be held liable should clinical algorithms make mistakes.

More than two-thirds of hospital executives, 70%, say their institution has a formal or comprehensive strategy in place for selecting, acquiring and integrating digital health products.…

Americans aren’t OK with generative healthcare AI that was developed without physicians and is sold by vendors without track records. …

Artificial intelligence researchers are making a “great plea” to guide the ethical development and use of generative AI in medicine.

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If people, process and technology (PPT) are the building blocks of any effective quality management system (QMS), it may hold that applying established PPT principles can help hospitals move AI from…

Technology leaders and academic researchers joined with healthcare professionals in Nigeria Nov. 13 to sketch out the future of African healthcare.

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Seeking to uncover the rationale driving hospitals to flout compliance with CMS rules on price transparency, researchers interviewed hospital informants at 12 nonprofit institutions. …

Online retail giant Amazon is expanding its foothold in the telemedicine space, offering members who pay for its Prime service access to virtual care visits with a healthcare provider. …

ChatGPT can be a little sneaky. Recently asked if it’s ever messed up when helping physicians make clinical decisions, it initially put a positive spin on the answer. It only came clean with examples of…

This past summer McKinsey Global Institute projected almost one-third of workplace activities in the U.S. will be automated by 2030, driving something like 12 million “occupational transitions.” …

When it comes to embracing generative AI, healthcare is something of a straggler. Some 89% of organizations in pharma/healthcare have neither deployed nor experimented with the technology. …

Training AI for clinical or research use in healthcare requires feeding algorithms patient data, and lots of it. This opens data custodians—typically hospitals—to various points of potential legal exposure.…

The Department of Defense’s National Security Agency (NSA) has launched a new organization to take charge of AI security. The move is primarily geared to protect information systems crucial to national defense…

This week has seen a cluster of healthcare-related business moves valued in the billions with a B.

Two are in the works and one is developing, as follows:…

Generative AI of the “large language” kind has been an attention hog over the past 10 or 11 months. The buzz has been so loud and constant that it’s all but asking to be dismissed as hype. That would be a…

Do you know who owns your personal favorite doctor’s practice? Could it be a healthcare conglomerate? An insurance company? A private equity firm? Amazon?

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Last week brought the latest in an occasional series of conversations on AI between governmental leaders and Big Tech honchos. For months, the No. 1 topic on the table has been regulation. Businesses are…

Almost 80% of provider organizations spent more on IT systems and software this year than last, yet only 6% have a plan in hand to incorporate generative AI into their digital ecosystem. …