Healthcare AI News 4/16/25

News

Anthropic adds a research feature to Claude that searches both internal and web-based content, using an agentic approach to run iterative queries, resolve open questions, and deliver well-sourced answers with citations.

A proposed federal bill would create a consistent Medicare reimbursement path for FDA-approved, AI-enabled medical devices by placing them in a new technology ambulatory payment classification under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System for at least five years, allowing time to collect data before determining if a permanent code should be created.

Research

A University of Florida researcher develops an open source AI tool that analyzes patient movement videos to help doctors detect subtle motor changes.

Other

North Carolina Central University is using Wolters Kluwer’s VRClinicals for Nursing, a virtual reality hospital simulation, to train its nursing students.

A medical writer with a PhD in math says that she doesn’t want AI scribes to write visit notes for her pulmonologist. 

My pulmonologist’s notes are much more than a summary of our privileged clinical encounters. Each of his notes is an important and carefully crafted document for my care planning and for coordination with other providers. Equally important, the notes are a communication to me, his patient. As I read his notes, I can feel his acumen and experience as a practitioner of medicine — his interest and understanding, his concern and compassion, his discernment and responsiveness. I don’t think an algorithm can re-create those specifically human experiences.

It’s interesting that the 2023 story about ChatGPT outdiagnosing 17 doctors is suddenly trending again despite no new developments. Maybe the AI has moved beyond diagnosis to ghostwriting clickbait.

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