AI enters the clinic: triage, diagnostics, and insurance under scrutiny

From palliative-care triage to X-ray analysis in 26 countries, AI enters the clinic — with urgent questions about insurance and patient privacy.

• Friday, 22 May: Mayo Clinic AI Identifies Hospitalised Patients Who Need Palliative Care Earlier
• Friday, 22 May: Lawsuit Alleges Insurance AI Denies Nine in Ten Claims — and Nine in Ten Denials Are Overturned on Appeal
• Friday, 22 May: Radiological Society of North America Warns AI Medical Imaging Poses Patient Privacy Risks
• Friday, 22 May: UBC Okanagan AI Detects Heart Disease Risk in Breast Cancer Patients From CT Scans
• Friday, 22 May: MIT Builds AI Drug-Discovery Models That Encode Chemical Intuition, Not Just Pattern-Matching
• Friday, 22 May: Peer-Reviewed Global Study Validates AI X-Ray Reading Across 26 Countries and 258,000 Exams