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…
Digital Health
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…
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…
Advertisement
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…
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…