Healthcare AI News 4/2/25

News

Amazon releases Nova Act, an AI model that can perform actions within a web browser. 

An Israel-based medical advocacy group urges the health ministry to develop AI usage guidelines and enforcement, citing cases in which clinicians misused AI tools and harmed patients. It says that faulty AI-generated medication dosing and diagnostic suggestions have caused life-threatening errors.

Apple will reportedly add an AI health coach to an updated Health app as early as 2026.

Business

Layer Health, which offers an AI-powered EHR data abstraction tool, raises $21 million in a Series A funding round.

Research

A new KLAS report finds that many health system executives are wondering if their organizations are falling behind their peers in using AI, but most are just getting started with strategy, governance, and choice of specific products. All executives from large health systems report that their organizations are using AI. EHR vendors are driving AI adoption through integration with their core products. AI use in imaging, operations, security, and revenue cycle is more focused but growing.

A small Dartmouth study finds that people with significant behavioral disorders improved after using a therapy-focused chatbot app. Depression symptoms dropped by 51%, while those with depression, anxiety, and eating disorders saw smaller but still meaningful improvements. The researchers say that chatbot-delivered therapy rivaled the results of traditional outpatient care and could help ease the mental health provider shortage.

Other

A woman in Australia files a complaint with the health regulator after her doctor used ChatGPT to interpret her lab results during a visit, which she called “lazy and unprofessional.”

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