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…
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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…
Physicians are already living with wearable data, whether or not the systems around them are ready for it. Smartwatches, fitness trackers and biosensors owned by patients are generating a steady stream of health information, and physicians across the world are…
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AI has become a permanent fixture in the U.S. healthcare system — and it may be closing holes in patient education and engagement. Twenty-nine percent of adults using AI for health information on a monthly basis according to a recent…
Nearly 3 in 10 U.S. adults now use AI tools for health information at least monthly, a figure that has nearly doubled over the last two years and now rivals the share of adults who seek health advice on social…
Marit Health, an AI-powered platform and clinician community, has reached 100,000 users 15 months after launching, making it one of the fastest-growing platforms in medicine, according to a June 23 news release. The San Francisco-based platform, launched in March 2025…
Pennsylvania has been taking legal aim at AI chatbots that falsely claim to be licensed medical professionals — but according to a recent investigation by Spotlight PA, the behavior is widespread and largely continuing unimpeded. A Department of State task…
The Trump administration announced its support of an experiment in Utah where AI is writing prescriptions, plans to offer over $50 million in research awards to developers of conversational AI for cardiovascular care and has created an expedited approval process…