#AI in healthcare
9 stories taggedAI in healthcare.
Google says its AI now touches 300 languages and 7 billion people. Here's what that actually means.
From spotting missed breast cancers to warning Jamaicans about a hurricane, Google is rolling out AI tools that reach far beyond the chatbot.
The NHS Region That Built Its Own Data Platform and Is Saying No to Palantir
Greater Manchester runs its own health data system and says it outperforms the $400 million national deal. That claim is now shaping a decision the UK government must make by February.
Robots and AI Are Changing How Stroke Survivors Recover
From hospital gyms to living rooms, robotic rehab devices are helping stroke patients retrain their brains faster and more consistently than traditional therapy alone can manage.
Medical Students Are Using AI Before They've Learned to Think Like Doctors
A popular AI tool already used by two-thirds of US doctors has reached trainees who are still forming basic clinical judgment. Experts warn the risk isn't losing a skill. It's never building one.
ENvue Medical Unveils AI-Driven Tool for Safer Feeding Tube Placement
ENvue Drive pairs AI navigation with a robotic arm to guide feeding tube insertion, targeting the 3% to 5% of procedures that go wrong every year.
Medtronic Unveils AI Platform for Smarter Surgeries
Medtronic's Touch Surgery Aide brings real-time AI into the operating room, starting with a camera-awareness tool for robotic procedures.
Bristol Myers Squibb Just Gave Every One of Its Scientists Access to the Biggest AI Computer in Drug Research
The pharma giant is doubling its AI computing power with a new NVIDIA supercomputer cluster, and opening it up to every researcher at the company, not just a chosen few.
AI Could Speed Up Health Insurance Approvals. Doctors Fear It Will Just Deny More Claims.
Prior authorization, the process where insurers must sign off before you get treated, already delays care for millions of patients. Artificial intelligence could clear the backlog faster. But six in ten doctors think it will make wrongful denials worse.
Twelve Bronx Nurses Laid Off After Hospital Replaces Them With AI Software
Montefiore Medical Center cut a dozen nurses whose job was reviewing patient insurance claims, handing that work to an automated system. Their union says the move broke a contract won through a recent strike.