By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-04-06 17:55:00
The chief executive of America’s largest public hospital system — NYC Health + Hospitals — recently said that he is prepared to start replacing radiologists with artificial intelligence (AI) in some circumstances. His statement comes with the disclaimer that once the regulatory landscape catches up. Mitchell H Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals made the comments during a panel discussion held by Crain’s New York Business. One example he gave, as reported by Radiology, would affect women’s healthcare in particular, by automating breast cancer screening with AI tools. By sidelining radiologists until an AI system flags a reading as abnormal, Katz declared, hospitals could achieve “major savings.”He spoke about how AI is increasingly being used to interpret mammograms and X-rays. “We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI at this moment, if we are ready to do the regulatory challenge,” Katz said at the forum. Katz said that he sees great potential for AI to increase access to breast cancer screening. He asked his fellow hospital CEOs if there is any reason why they shouldn’t be pushing for changes to New York state regulations, allowing AI to read images “without a radiologist”. Crain’s reported. The discussion comes after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently made similar statements about AI replacing radiologists. In a podcast interview, he claimed that AI has taken over the specialty’s core function, allowing…
