Artificial Intelligence

ASTP has released the 2025 SAFER Guides, which aim to improve health systems' adherence to electronic health record best practices. They were updated by clinicians with informatics training and informaticians with clinical experience.

Two new memos update federal AI policy, which the White House says will accelerate innovation, strengthen public trust and prioritize U.S.-developed AI tools.  

Micky Tripathi, who also served as acting chief artificial intelligence officer at HHS, is said to be in line for the new chief AI implementation officer role at the Minnesota healthcare innovator.

Northern Health in Melbourne has replaced its legacy system with AI-assisted coding.

Pharmacy order processing was brought down to under five minutes.

A study published in the European Journal of Cancer says inaccurate results and misdiagnoses could occur if diverse populations are not included in clinical research.

Chief Data and AI Officer Mouneer Odeh says work on artificial intelligence is like a snowball going downhill – over the next five to 10 years it will build and build until the scale of the impact meets what healthcare requires.

Also: Three partners will combine advanced analytics, social risk assessments and actuarial validation to measure the impacts of SDOH interventions.

The University of California at San Francisco's overarching goal was not to replace human judgment but to enhance it – allowing oncologists to focus on personalized treatment rather than spending valuable time retrieving and verifying information.

Almost 20% of healthcare workers polled recently said they spend more than 20 hours per month correcting billing errors. Artificial intelligence can help, but adding automation to billing systems is no easy task.