Amazon recently decided to name Roy Schoenberg, MD, as the new leader of its health division. Dr. Schoenberg, a physician who co-founded and led telehealth company Amwell for nearly two decades, is the latest in a line of clinicians who…
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The White House is backing a push for AI to take over more of the duties of physicians, The Washington Post reported. The Trump administration supports an experiment in Utah where AI is writing prescriptions, plans to offer over $50…
Torrance, Calif.-based Unio Health Partners has finalized a partnership with New York-based AI care team platform Thesis Care to deploy AI care team agents across its physician practices. Unio Health Partners serves more than 500,000 patients annually across 52 practice…
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have put forth a proposal that would limit AI’s use in healthcare, primarily in relation to how it is used in billing and claims denials, WRAL News reported May 21. House Bill 565 would prohibit…
As AI becomes increasingly present across healthcare settings, gaps are emerging in the roll-out of new initiatives. Nurses are most often underrepresented in organizational decision-making around AI, according to Elsevier’s “Clinician of the Future 2026” report, released May 13. The…
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Physician leaders are being charged with leading AI-enabled initiatives in clinical decision making, diagnostics and care delivery models — but the speed of innovation may be outpacing the reality of leaders’ time allocation, according to “The State of Physician Leadership,”…
The relationship between physicians and AI has been rapidly developing as healthcare organizations work to solidify AI’s place in medicine and public perception of the technology continues to shift. Here are five notes on the evolving relationship between physicians, their…
The American Medical Association has outlined a policy framework to address AI-generated deepfakes impersonating physicians. According to an April 29 press release shared with Becker’s, the framework, developed by the AMA Center for Digital Health and AI, establishes protections for…
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free AI tool designed specifically to support every day tasks associated with medical practice. The company’s new benchmark accompanying the tool — HealthBench Professional – claims its model outperforms human physicians on clinical…
Public openness to AI in healthcare is declining even as more Americans turn to the technology to make medical decisions, an April 7 survey from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found. The survey, conducted by SSRS on its…