Healthcare AI News 5/14/25

News

OpenAI launches HealthBench, a physician-developed benchmark that evaluates large language models on real-world medical decision-making. It uses 5,000 realistic clinical conversations to grade models on communication quality, instruction adherence, accuracy, context awareness, and completeness.

Google is expanding its Gemini AI assistant beyond smartphones to other Android devices such as smart watches, cars, TVs, and extended reality headsets.

AI answer engine Perplexity adds PayPal “buy now” buttons to its results, enabling in-app purchases as it promotes “conversation-driven commerce.”

Business

Oracle Health launches its Clinical AI Agent in Canada, offering health systems automated note drafting and voice-enabled EHR navigation.

Patient-provider communication platform vendor OhMD launches Nia, an AI voice assistant that manages routine patient requests for scheduling and refills while routing sensitive requests to medical practice teams. OhMD co-founder and CEO Ethan Bechtel has executive industry experience with EMR Edge, Blueprint Health, and MBA HealthGroup.

The New York Post profiles Doctronic, a startup whose symptom-checking chatbot suggests potential diagnoses and then offers a $39 virtual physician visit to review. The company says its chatbot’s diagnosis and treatment plan match the doctor’s 70% of the time and that the platform serves 50,000 users weekly.

Research

Australian researchers report that over 1,000 health-related GPTs in OpenAI’s GPT Store operate outside medical device regulations. Authors of two of the 10 most-used GPTs declined to provide details, while the remaining eight offered no evidence of safety or regulatory approval.

Other

A House budget reconciliation bill would impose a 10-year moratorium on state and local regulation of AI.

A New York Times article notes that AI hasn’t displaced radiologists as some once predicted, highlighting that Mayo Clinic has grown its radiology staff by 55% over nine years and formed a 40-member AI team to build tools that support clinicians. Experts say that outsiders often misunderstand the role of radiologists, who in addition to reading images also advise physicians, review medical records, speak with patients, and contextualizing findings for a particular patient.

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