UC San Diego Health researchers analyzed a year’s worth of physician edits to AI-drafted replies to patient portal messages, finding that promised time savings from the technology have not consistently materialized in practice. The study, published in NEJM AI on…
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Health IT vendor CareCloud has reported a data breach affecting 3,756,469 individuals. The breach traces to a network disruption CareCloud discovered on March 16 in its CareCloud Health division, which temporarily disrupted access to one of the company’s six electronic…
Most Americans want physicians to disclose when AI is used in their care, and most also feel they have too little say over it, a Pew Research Center report found. The survey, published Aug. 25, drew on responses from 3,488…
An ad with famous athletes and their new knee brace. A company marketing the “first ever” joint replacement made for women. A surge of online influencers proposing peptides as the cure-all treatment. Increasingly, patients who would once walk in looking…
UT Health San Antonio has moved steadily bet on ambient AI documentation as a strategy for giving clinicians time back in their day. Walter Fink, DO, the system’s associate vice president and chief medical officer, told Becker’s that the technology…
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Aflac’s fourth annual Wellness Matters Survey found 76% of Gen Z and 63% of millennials now turn to artificial intelligence as their first line of primary healthcare, according to results released Aug. 4. The survey, conducted in March 2026 by…
In the last two weeks, a CMS payment proposal, three lawsuits, a Senate vote and a nurses’ rally all landed on the same theme: outside vendors and AI tools embedded in patient care are drawing pushback from regulators, courts and…
Globe Medical Realty Advisors, a Dallas-based medical tenant representation firm, has launched a national data platform that gives independent physician practices market intelligence previously reserved for hospital systems and developers. According to a July 29 news release, the platform, built…
Robert Duhaney, MD, has spent the past several years watching two forces reshape primary care at the same time: a rapidly scaling corporate environment and a patient population that increasingly shows up to appointments having already consulted an AI chatbot. …
The country’s largest healthcare company is placing a bet on Anthropic. Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, is partnering with Anthropic “to responsibly bring AI to healthcare to help people live healthier lives, reduce the administrative burden, and make the health…