As AI continues infiltrating healthcare at nearly every level, the technology’s potential for good and ill must become—or remain—a preeminent concern for hospital boards of trustees.…

It’s not easy to get patients, providers, payers, vendors and regulators to agree on any one aspect of healthcare delivery. But FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) recently managed to get…

Members of C-suites around the world are making room for a new teammate: the CAIO. In healthcare, some organizations are hiring for the even more specialized position of CHAIO, for chief health AI…

A grocery-delivery giant is partnering with a commercial provider of medical house calls to bring healthy meals to patients in their homes.

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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:…