To maximize returns on AI investments, healthcare organizations should align AI initiatives with core competencies. The effort should focus on optimizing experiences for workforces as well as patients. 

Overall, 30-day outcomes were not significantly different for hospitals after being acquired by a private equity firm. However, the study’s authors did identify trends that suggest there may be a drop in the quality of care. 

On the technical and ethical planes, the National Academy of Medicine’s fresh guidance may represent the best way yet to ensure alignment of healthcare AI stakeholders.

The shoulders on which healthcare AI stands span from the advent of the World Wide Web, email and electronic medical records to the ubiquity of smartphones, patient portals, telehealth and personal health wearables. 

New first-in-human data highlight the potential of pants designed to improve the quality of MRI-based cardiac stress tests.

Widaplik, the new polypill from George Medicines, includes telmisartan, amlodipine and indapamide. The FDA's decision comes after positive data were published in both JACC and The Lancet.

If doctors are the heart of the hospital, nurses are surely the soul. And if that’s so, today’s AI has to be something like a nutritional supplement for the brains of the operation.

A new review of the relevant scientific literature suggests many if not most patients are aware that healthcare AI’s emerging benefits exist side-by-side with its persistent uncertainties.