Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t

By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on January 05, 2026 Samir Abboud, chief of emergency radiology for Northwestern Medicine, thought he was already working at maximum speed. In a carefully honed routine, aided by voice dictation, he could finish writing an X-ray report in as little as 75 seconds. Then the Chicago-based health system rolled […]