Healthcare IT News January 7, 2025
Bill Siwicki

The sprawling health system believes artificial intelligence should never replace the judgment of clinicians and must be carefully assessed, says Dr. Daniel Yang, who also offers a closer look at Kaiser’s successful rollout of a genAI tool for clinicians.

An increasing number of health systems are hiring executives, usually physicians, to head their artificial intelligence efforts – often chief AI officers, fully at the C-suite level. The complex technology with great potential is in the midst of an explosion in healthcare and many industries.

Kaiser Permanente, with its 40 hospitals and 600 medical offices, created the role of vice president of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies when they hired Dr. Daniel Yang in late 2023.

Yang, who is not...

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