In this AMA podcast, Veena Jones, MD, CMIO at Sutter Health, talks about how the California-based health system is turning clinical notes from the care team into patient-friendly summaries using AI.
Community Health Systems, Inc. is selling select ambulatory outreach laboratory services to Labcorp for $195 million in cash. The transaction involves Tennessee-based CHS's outreach laboratory assets across 13 states, including patient service centers and in-office phlebotomy locations. CHS will continue to operate its inpatient and emergency department laboratories, as well as provide laboratory services for hospital-based services such as imaging and pre-admission testing.
Clinicians and patients are using artificial intelligence more and more to help diagnose illness and injuries, but many in the healthcare industry see the technology's adoption as a double-edged sword. A new study of over 2,000 medical professionals found that the adoption of generative AI tools is becoming far more prevalent in healthcare, but that misinformation about conditions and diagnoses was also impacting patients.
A 61-year-old man who was sucked into an MRI machine on Long Island while wearing a metal neck chain has died from his injuries, authorities said Friday. The freak accident happened Wednesday at Nassau County Open MRI in Westbury when the man was pulled into the magnetic resonance imaging machine by his 'large metal chain,' Nassau County cops said.
A novel AI-powered retina tracker can analyze retinal images with near-perfect accuracy in under one second, according to a study presented Monday at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in San Francisco. The researchers say the findings offer hope for sight-saving screenings for diabetic retinopathy and other eye diseases that are fast, affordable, and accessible worldwide.
Google's new releases include MedGemma 27B Multimodal, which processes both text and images and MedSigLIP, a lightweight image and text encoder designed for medical applications. Both models form part of Google's Health AI Developer Foundations program, which provides developers with open-source starting points for healthcare software development.