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Tomislav Mihaljevic: At Cleveland Clinic, AI is Helping Reshape Patient Care

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Aug 31, 2025, 18:46

Tomislav Mihaljevic: At Cleveland Clinic, AI is Helping Reshape Patient Care

Tomislav Mihaljevic, President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Artificial intelligence is changing medicine for the better.

It is pushing the pace of discovery, diagnosing conditions more quickly, streamlining administrative and clinical workflows, and enhancing patient care.

Now, it is also accelerating clinical trial recruitment, helping to quickly connect patients to treatments that have the potential to change their lives.

To accomplish this, Cleveland Clinic is collaborating with Dyania Health to integrate Dyania Health’s Synapsis™ AI platform across Cleveland Clinic’s clinical research enterprise. Through the use of AI – specifically, medically trained large language models – we can automate chart review and rapidly identify eligible participants for research studies.

Historically, it has been challenging to recruit patients for clinical trials, which, in turn, impedes scientific progress. According to published research, about 80% of clinical trials are unable to meet enrollment timelines and 50% of trial sites fail to enroll any patients.

AI is addressing this and expanding patient access to potentially life-saving therapies.

In fact, AI holds the power to help us answer many of our most pressing medical questions – but only if clinicians and researchers fully understand its capabilities and potential risks.

Last month, Cleveland Clinic hosted our inaugural AI Summit for Healthcare Professionals, educating clinicians about how they can implement AI advances now and how AI will impact medicine in the future.

In collaboration with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the summit was designed for clinicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, administrators, trainees, and other healthcare professionals. It attracted more than 650 participants – 450 in person and 200 online.

The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare is no longer simply an interesting thought experiment. The AI revolution is here now, and it is broad, crossing all segments of medicine.

The potential is limitless, with AI driving innovations in diagnostics, triage, predictive analytics, patient monitoring, precision medicine, and personalized treatment planning. It is even reshaping doctor-patient interactions, as ambient listening software transcribes patient appointments and generates detailed medical notes.

At Cleveland Clinic, the patient is at the center of every decision we make. And AI is no different.

While this technology continues to shape the future of medicine, we must remember that it is a tool. It cannot provide care. It cannot offer empathic, hands-on care. Our humanity must always be at the center of medicine. Whatever technological advances are to come, we can never lose sight of the noble purpose we have to care for others.”

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