Nashville – John Halamka, MD, doesn’t see any way to avoid using AI in health care in the future. John Halamka, MD, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, talks about AI in medicine at the ViVE digital health conference in Nashville. Halamka is the president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, which works with providers, drug companies, medical device manufacturers and startups to develop new technologies to improve care. He’s also the chairman of the board of directors of the Coalition for Health AI.
During a conversation at the ViVE digital health conference, Halamka talked with Sonia Singh, chief insights officer of AVIA, about the growing importance of AI in health care. He noted that most industrialized societies are facing the challenge of low birth rates and aging populations “that aren’t having extensions of their healthy years.”
“They’re just living longer and they’re sick, and so we aren’t going to have enough caregivers to be able to deliver the care they need,” Halamka says. “We have to use AI.”
But he notes there are thorny questions about how quickly AI tools can and should be used, how AI in health care should be regulated, and the risks of adopting new models. Read more : How City of Hope is using AI to advance cancer care | ViVE 2025
Start small, move fast
Halamka points to the growing use of ambient listening tools, which health systems are using to document patient visits, allowing doctors to have natural conversations with patients rather than typing notes on a computer. These AI tools also provide summaries of the patient encounter, enabling clinicians to save time and energy.
“We know ambient listening is the thing that will solve many business problems. Well, it’s not perfect, but what’s the risk if it goes bad? Pretty small. And so we say, ‘Oh, we’re willing to take that risk,’” he says.
Mayo Clinic is now using an inpatient ambient nursing solution in Arizona and Florida that does “100% of the nursing charting without the nurse having to touch a keyboard.”
“Is it perfect? No, but good enough and low risk, and there’s a […]
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