Healthcare AI

NextGen Invent’s Deepak Mittal argues for scoped healthcare AI pilots with early governance

NextGen Invent’s Deepak Mittal argues that healthcare AI pilots can begin with a reliable data subset and early governance. His performance figures are vendor claims, not independently verified results.

Digital health AI investment hits $7.4B in H1 2026 as CMS, hospitals, and startups all accelerate adoption

From a new CMS technology office to a $1.7B cancer-tech acquisition, the first half of 2026 shows enterprise-scale commitment to healthcare AI.

NIH is harmonizing 12 petabytes of biomedical data to power the next wave of health AI

A cross-agency NIH initiative to standardize 70 years of biomedical data is building the foundation enterprise health IT leaders need to deploy AI at scale.

Cedars-Sinai's CDAIO on healthcare AI's second wave: workforce transformation, not just productivity

Cedars-Sinai's chief data and AI officer says the first wave of healthcare AI boosted productivity. The second wave is changing how work is organized and what jobs require.

Clinical AI, specialty pharmacy, and consolidation: what's reshaping healthcare operations right now

Nurses are co-designing AI tools, OpenAI is pitching hospitals directly, and specialty pharmacy M&A is accelerating. Here's what it means for health system oper

Healthcare AI deployments stall on data quality, not model performance

As health systems move from AI pilots to enterprise scale, reporting points to fragmented, poorly governed data, not the models themselves, as the real bottleneck.

Healthcare's first big AI use is a pressure valve, not a moonshot

From AI scribes to LLM companions, healthcare's AI adoption is moving from pilot to standard practice across clinical and administrative workflows.

Unlocking CensisAI²: The Metrics That Matter for Smarter SPD Decisions

Sterile processing departments are swimming in data, from workflow automation and supply data to patient outcome and quality metrics. But the real challenge is not collecting more information; it is knowing which metrics actually improve SPD performance, technician education, OR readiness and patient safety. For Censis, a leader in surgical asset management, the focus…

Dr. Kevin Stevenson Gives His Thoughts on the Evolution of Healthcare Over the Past Decades

As healthcare continues to transform faster than ever — shaped by post-pandemic burnout, staffing shortages, and the rise of AI — leaders are being forced to rethink what it truly means to deliver both value and compassion in medicine. With the U.S. expected to face a shortage of 64,000 nurses in 2030, healthcare leaders are…

Beyond the Myths: The Truth About Vision AI Security, Ethics, and Privacy

Separating fact from fear about how computer vision actually protects people in high-risk environments