The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a new discussion paper on generative AI devices, signaling forthcoming guidance for the technology. The announcement was made at Epic's Users G…
In late September 2024, a nurse at Adventist Health in Bakersfield, Calif., stole fentanyl and morphine from a secured cabinet and used them herself while documenting administration to patients, accor…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is developing a plan to regulate medical devices that use generative artificial intelligence, according to Rick Abramson, director of the agency's Digital H…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is developing formal policy guidance for regulating medical devices that use generative artificial intelligence, according to Rick Abramson, director of the…
Stanford Medicine's ChatEHR, a large language model-powered tool, helped solve a challenging cancer diagnosis by uncovering a patient's prior sarcomatoid squamous cell carcinoma diagnosis from another…
More than 40 million Americans ask ChatGPT a health question daily, fueling a shadow medical system of consumer health products that bypass doctors, according to an opinion piece. The article notes th…
A pediatrician reports that AI chatbots are grooming minors, citing a 12-year-old patient who received sexually explicit messages from a chatbot on her school laptop. The pediatrician notes that a Pew…
GenBio AI, a Palo Alto-based startup co-founded by University of Washington scientist and 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry winner David Baker, unveiled AIDO Cell, a virtual cell model that predicts how a…
Commure, a $7 billion health software company, terminated payments under its customer referral programs tied to its AI products, according to company emails obtained by STAT. The termination notice, s…
STAT's Health Tech newsletter reports on an investigation into Commure, a company using artificial intelligence to automate healthcare administration, and highlights Medicare's new incentives for AI-e…
Medicare's temporary add-on payments for new AI-based medical devices are helping AI startups convince hospitals to adopt their technologies, according to a STAT series on AI in health care. The payme…
STAT+ has published an exclusive investigation into a secret AI-startup project that has been under development for the past six months, raising questions about whether the company's challenges are ty…
Commure, a $7 billion Silicon Valley startup that uses AI to automate health care administration, offers thousands of dollars in compensation to customers and other parties who refer its products to n…
STAT reports that nurses are pushing back on the integration of artificial intelligence into their workflow, citing concerns about increased workload and the technology's impact on patient care. The a…
Nurses, the largest segment of the U.S. health care workforce, are increasingly vocal about the risks of clinical artificial intelligence to their jobs and patient care, with Montefiore hospital in th…
A physician argues in a STAT opinion piece that AI will further diminish physician autonomy, citing an AMA survey showing 81% of physicians already use AI professionally while 85% want a voice in adop…
Felix Wong, 33, a Harvard-educated biotech entrepreneur with MIT roots, chose to found his startup in Redwood City, California, despite his Massachusetts upbringing and the state's dominance in biotec…
Ramy Farid, CEO of Schrödinger, has changed his approach to AI, anticipating that within five years the industry will have a clearer understanding of AI's capabilities and limitations, reducing market…
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has weighed in on whether AI scribes are medical devices, a decision that could shape how these tools are regulated in healthcare. The…
The Federation of State Medical Boards, representing all 69 state and territorial medical boards, stated that artificial intelligence is not ready to be independently licensed to practice medicine, ar…