Social media and artificial intelligence are changing how patients seek out medical information, often shaping their expectations before they enter the exam room. For physicians, the challenge is no longer whether patients should turn to these platforms, but how to…
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Patients have been searching their symptoms online for years, but generative AI chatbots and algorithm-driven social media feeds have fundamentally changed how those conversations play out in the exam room. Amna Jamshad, DO, an emergency medicine administrative fellow in Marietta,…
Social media has become a regular source of medical information for patients, bringing new questions, expectations and sometimes misinformation into the exam room. A recent study from Richmond-based Virginia Commonwealth University found that Gen Z participants who follow physician-influencers on…
Gen Z social media users trust TikTok physician-influencers more than their own physicians, according to new research from Richmond-based Virginia Commonwealth University published in the Journal of Consumer Affairs. Suzanne Makarem, an associate professor of marketing at the VCU School…
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said AI can provide patients with a better-informed second opinion than any physician in the country, The New York Times reported Sept. 29. Speaking alongside Vice President JD Vance at the MAHA Summit in…
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Some 57% of healthcare professionals are using AI tools their employer never sanctioned, according to a recent survey published by Wolters Kluwer. For most health system leaders, that number reads as a compliance failure. During a panel titled “Tech Transformation…
Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., reintroduced legislation that would establish minimum federal cybersecurity standards for healthcare organizations and provide $1.3 billion to help hospitals strengthen their defenses. The senators reintroduced the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act,…
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…
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…