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. 

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Investors are betting on generative AI to solve costly provider workflow inefficiencies. So are provider executives. 

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

Powerful Medical's advanced algorithm was designed to detect STEMI and STEMI-equivalent patterns in a patient’s ECG results.

California has moved assertively to legislate guardrails around AI in healthcare. Will other states follow? 

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. 

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Unionized nurses: ‘AI overrides our expertise and degrades the quality of care.’ 

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.