Hospitals Seek Permission for AI Reads

Hospital executives are openly asking state regulators to allow AI to perform initial radiology reads so clinicians only review flagged or abnormal cases. They argue this will cut costs and expand screening access, citing very low miss rates reported by deployed systems in some networks. — If regulators acquiesce, it could accelerate substitution of clinical diagnostic labor, reshape reimbursement and liability regimes, and change access to screening services for large patient populations.