Dr. Elise Boventer, an internist and medical informatics strategist at Northwell Health, leverages her expertise in clinical informatics to drive positive changes in health care. Her work focuses on reducing physician burnout and improving patient care through the implementation of electronic health records, health information systems data and augmented intelligence. Boventer emphasizes the importance of clinician involvement and women's representation in informatics to enhance system usability and patient safety.

"Informatics pushes us to be innovative and think about how things could be different and better. Sometimes, you lose that in the day-to-day of medicine," Boventer says.

Micaela F. Bayard highlighted AI's applications in rheumatology at the ACR Convergence 2025.  AI can assist in reading imaging and grading the severity of rheumatoid arthritis and managing patient treatment histories, offering significant benefits to rheumatologists. Bayard noted the importance of integrating AI with clinical practice rather than viewing it as a replacement for doctors, promoting a partnership between technology and health care professionals.

UnityPoint Health has announced a collaboration with the Mayo Clinic's "Platform Insights" system, aiming to enhance patient care across its network, which spans 400 clinics and 18 hospitals in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. This partnership will provide UnityPoint Health doctors with access to Mayo Clinic's extensive knowledge and clinical pathways, integrating AI as a predictive tool while ensuring doctors retain decision-making authority. The initiative is already in effect, promising improved health care delivery through advanced analytics and expert consultation.

Medical school executives are discussed the integration of AI in training future clinicians at a recent University of Pennsylvania webinar. Verity Schaye from New York University hightlighted the balance between AI's potential to enhance skills and the risk of over-reliance. Brian Garibaldi from Northwestern University emphasized AI's role in data acquisition for clinical reasoning, while Holly Caretta-Weyer from Stanford stressed the need for responsible AI use in education. The conversation underscores the importance of developing guidelines to ensure AI complements rather than replaces core medical skills.

The US Energy Department has begun making deals with tech companies including the Nvidia, Oracle and Advanced Micro Devices to hasten how quickly national laboratories like Argonne and Oak Ridge can land dedicated AI hardware, with tech firms taking on more of the cost of building and operating the machines. "It's a much more businesslike strategy," said Rick Stevens, an Argonne associate laboratory director and computer science professor at the University of Chicago. "It's much more of a Silicon Valley kind of strategy."

OpenAI's latest AI model, GPT-5, is showcased in a new report highlighting its potential to transform research across fields like physics, cancer research, and mathematics. The report, featuring case studies, demonstrates GPT-5's ability to assist scientists in testing ideas and refining experiments. While the model occasionally errs, it can also accelerate research processes significantly, as seen in projects involving black holes and nuclear fusion. The tool's capacity to compress coding time from days to minutes could revolutionize research practices, according to experts like Floor Broekgaarden, an astronomer at the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the study.

The NIH has canceled funding for 383 clinical trials, impacting around 74,000 participants, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.  This move affects research into health issues such as COVID-19, sickle cell disease, sleep disorders and lung cancer. The cuts are part of a broader effort to align funding with the Trump administration's priorities, which has led to significant disruptions in ongoing medical research.

Starting in 2026, US cancer registries will classify patients strictly as male, female or unknown due to Trump administration policies, impacting data collection on transgender populations. This change affects registries funded by the CDC and National Cancer Institute, limiting insights into cancer trends among transgender individuals. Researchers and advocates warn that this could hinder understanding of cancer risks and outcomes in this marginalized group, as previous data collection efforts to include diverse gender identities are rolled back.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has introduced a new Wastewater Monitor for Respiratory Viruses dashboard, providing insights into the presence of viruses like influenza A and B, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2 in Kansas communities. This tool aims to help the public and policymakers make informed health decisions by offering data from nine wastewater treatment plants across three counties. The initiative is a collaborative effort involving local facilities and the CDC, aiming to detect disease trends before they impact hospitals.