Artificial Intelligence
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'An Opportunity to Be Transformative': Health Systems Adopt AI Tools for Improved Patient Outcomes
In his role as Trinity Health’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, Dr. Dan Roth frequently leads presentations on artificial intelligence integration in healthcare. They often use a similar descriptive phrase in their titles: Promise and Peril.
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Putting Ethics Into Practice: AI Use in Catholic Health
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare. From predictive analytics and clinical decision support to administrative automation and virtual assistants, AI promises to reshape how care is delivered, experienced and organized. This transformation presents both opportunities and challenges for Catholic healthcare to practice the healing ministry.
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Listening Differently: What Ambient AI Is Teaching Us About Care
In exam rooms across the country, something subtle but significant is changing. At FMOL Health, that change is already taking shape. Clinicians are beginning to practice in a different way, less focused on screens, more focused on patients, while documentation happens in the background.
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Healthcare's Role in Managing the Environmental Toll of AI
Artificial intelligence is poised to revolutionize healthcare, but its use, from chatbot interactions to radiology image interpretations, carries a steep energy debt that the industry is only beginning to confront.
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AI and the Healthcare Workforce: What's Changing?
Artificial intelligence is already changing the way that many healthcare providers do their jobs. In many doctors' offices and hospitals, AI is working in the background. Computer algorithms scan X-rays and MRIs and flag any urgent issues for radiologists before they view them.
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The Innovation Imperative: Stewardship in the Age of AI
In the Catholic health ministry, we often speak of the "sacred encounter," that profound moment of connection often between a caregiver and a person in need. At its core, this encounter reflects the ministry’s commitment to presence, compassion and dignity in every interaction. Protecting this encounter through compassionate bedside presence and connection is a mission-critical priority.
Departments
Editor's Note — Summer 2026
BETSY TAYLOR
Mission — The Sound of the Genuine: A Call to Human Dignity
JILL FISK, MATM
Aging — The Future of Older Adult Services in a Time of Disruption
HOWARD GLECKMAN
Community Benefit — Knowing More Means Doing Better: Data, Technology and the Future of Community Health Improvement
WILL SNYDER and ANGIE GROVER
Ethics — The Updated ERDs as Catalyst for Engagement on Medical, Ethical Questions
NATHANIEL BLANTON HIBNER, PhD
Formation — How Experience, Culture and Tradition Shape Catholic Healthcare: The Formation Triangle
DARREN M. HENSON, PhD, STL
Thinking Globally — Strengthening Global Solidarity Through Discernment, Dialogue and Direction
BRUCE COMPTON
Prayer Service — Healing That Remains
JENNA SPECKART, DBe, MA, Vice President, Mission and Ethics Operations, Mercy
