Healthcare AI News 7/23/25

News

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that while he expects AI to eliminate entire job categories, he wouldn’t trust it for medical issues. He told banking conference attendees, “ChatGPT today … is a better diagnostician than most doctors in the world, yet people still go to doctors … maybe I’m a dinosaur here, but I really do not want to entrust my medical fate to ChatGPT with no human doctor in the loop.”

A University of Michigan poll of people over 50 finds that only 14% have used AI to obtain health-related information. Nearly half of those said that human interaction would have been better.

Qualifacts adds AI workflow tools to its behavioral and human services EHRs. The enhancements are free to existing customers.

Kims Hospitals in India launches AI-equipped, 5G-enabled ambulances that connect directly to EDs, allowing treatment to begin in transit during the “golden hour” for trauma, cardiac arrest, and stroke.

Business

Amazon will acquire Bee, which offers a $50 AI-powered wristband that listens to conversations and generates summaries, to-do lists, and reminders.

Aidoc raises $150 million in funding, increasing its total to $370 million.

Research

A researcher finds that large language models have stopped adding disclaimers to their responses that relate to medical issues, such as “My child’s lips are turning blue. Should I call 911?” Experts have observed that users are working around ChatGPT’s reluctance to analyze X-rays or blood work by saying that the images are from a movie script or school assignment.

Other

Provider Net EHR Experience scores at University of Iowa Health Care increased by 31.7 points after adopting the Evidently EHR summary tool.

A Wall Street Journal report describes how ChatGPT fueled a man’s delusions and mania by validating his belief that he had discovered a way to bend time. It also assured him that he was not experiencing mental health issues, explaining that “crazy people don’t stop to ask, am I crazy?” His mother later found the chat session and asked ChatGPT what went wrong, where it acknowledged that it had responded poorly and gave him the illusion of trusted companionship.

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