healthcare ai

Edward Reiner’s career is the human story behind healthcare’s most technocratic conversations: a Stony Brook ’77 alumnus who has watched medicine move from paper charts to enterprise data warehouses and now into the messy, promising world of generative AI. His message is simple and insistently...

Optum’s Optum Real and Microsoft’s cloud and AI toolkit promise to shave months of friction from the healthcare revenue cycle — but the technical, ethical, and competitive stakes are high, and the pilot results to date are company-reported rather than independently audited. Background: what was...

Microsoft’s pitch at HIMSS 2026 was blunt and unambiguous: unify fragmented clinical data, simplify the work clinicians actually do, and scale those gains across roles and geographies—using one integrated AI assistant built on Azure and threaded into the Microsoft productivity stack. The new...

Edward Reiner’s career maps the three-decade arc of healthcare’s data revolution: from paper records to enterprise data warehouses to the arrival of large language models and generative AI tools that promise to reshape clinical workflows, drug development, and health-system management. His...

As the first quarter of 2026 unfolds, the era of AI experimentation in the enterprise has given way to an era of accountability. After three years of pilots, proofs of concept, and vendor sampling, buyers are consolidating their stacks, procurement teams are pruning experiments that never...

MIT Technology Review’s new short series, Making AI Work, lands as a practical counterpoint to the hype: a seven-issue, weekly newsletter that walks readers from real-world case studies to the tooling and — critically — the operational steps organizations need to make AI deliver measurable...

CU Anschutz researchers are moving from proof‑of‑concept to practical deployment, delivering a set of validated, clinician‑centered tools designed to make Large Language Models (LLMs) and other health A.I. safer, auditable and useful at the bedside—efforts that combine peer‑reviewed measurement...