AI in Healthcare

04/23/2025

Nursing educator-advocates: ‘As AI tools become more sophisticated, nurse leaders must take an active role in shaping AI’s integration to ensure it supports rather than replaces nursing practice.’

Is AI changing the profession of nursing—or are nurses changing AI?

04/22/2025

Researchers at the Catholic University of Korea: AI adoption should directly contribute not only to improved patient outcomes but also to overall healthcare quality.

By automating repetitive tasks and ensuring consistent “QC,” well-deployed AI not only unburdens healthcare professionals but also sets new standards for efficiency and reliability in medical practice.

04/18/2025

Research reviewers: Major milestones include FDA-approved AI diagnostics, real-time predictive tools and the integration of AI into electronic health record (EHR) systems.

As AI continues its march through healthcare organizations around the world, the notion that it will replace the sector’s human workers fades but does not disappear.

04/17/2025

Researchers deployed AI in multiple interpretation scenarios to assess how it might impact radiologists’ performances.

04/16/2025

The National Academy of Medicine considers the ups and downs of generative AI in a special publication released this month.

The National Academy of Medicine considers some pertinent ins and outs of GenAI.

04/15/2025

HeartFocus guides users through the entire process, making it so that even novices can deliver high-quality echocardiograms every time.

HeartFocus guides users through the entire process, making it so that even novices can deliver high-quality echocardiograms every time.

04/11/2025

More business leaders are recognizing that generative AI ‘is not merely a tool to reduce costs while maintaining the status quo. Instead, it represents a catalyst for business growth.’

GenAI initiatives are complex and—in some cases—costly. “As such, the main rationale for pursuing them needs to be business growth, not workforce reductions.”

04/09/2025

Close to 90% of one academic health system’s ambulatory primary care physicians have requested access to ambient scribe technology.

04/07/2025

Researchers built a starfish-inspired device capable of recording electrocardiogram, seismocardiogram and gyrocardiogram signals all at once, even during intense physical activities.

Researchers have taken inspiration from starfish to design an AI-powered wearable device that delivers accurate real-time heart monitoring.

04/04/2025

The platform was designed to enhance the early detection of health conditions known to affect women in their 40s and older, including breast cancer, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis.

04/04/2025

KLAS arrived at some insightful conclusions on AI in healthcare after speaking with 256 provider leaders—including 50 executives, 27 directors and 26 managers. Here are excerpts from the report.

Many if not most hospitals and other provider organizations take a decided interest in what their peer institutions are doing with AI. A major motivator for the keen curiosity is gauging how well one is keeping up with the Joneses. So to speak.

04/01/2025

Report: AI can improve patients’ understanding of discharge summaries and reduce their chances of readmission.

Among the myriad processes to which AI could be meaningfully applied in healthcare, perhaps few are more easily overlooked than discharging patients from the hospital.

03/28/2025

‘Wearable AI systems hold promise to reshape healthcare delivery by enabling truly proactive, personalized and patient-centered care.’

Wearable health gadgets equipped with AI present myriad opportunities and challenges to healthcare consumers and the healthcare professionals who diagnose, treat and track them.

03/26/2025

AI accurately routes interventional radiology procedure requests at pennies apiece.

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Duke University scientists are testing LLMs' ability to aid in this task—with the models able to recognize requests and generate responses.

03/21/2025

‘User satisfaction among healthcare providers and patients will be key to assessing the real-world impact of AI agents.’

Healthcare AI agents can be classified as one of four models. In increasing order of autonomy and clinical integration, these are: foundation, assistant, partner and pioneer.

03/19/2025

Stony Brook U researchers: ‘The AI system that institutions choose will be closely tied to their financial status. This can cause AI development to leave behind under-resourced communities.’

AI has a long way to go before it meaningfully closes disparities in healthcare access and delivery. In fact, even when aimed at that goal, the technology can backfire.

03/15/2025

Researchers developed several new AI models that could guide the management of patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. There is still some work to do in terms of accuracy, but they already appear to outperform the traditional risk scores being used today.

03/14/2025

American Society for Artificial Intelligence (ASFAI): ‘Understanding state-level initiatives can provide insights to shape federal AI policy.’

If the Trump administration continues taking a laissez-faire stance toward AI—including AI used in healthcare—why not let the states go it alone on regulating the technology?