Healthcare AI News 12/3/25

News

Surveyed provider executives expect the chief AI innovation officer to become the most important new C-suite role, and most say that the chief AI officer and the CIO / CTO positions are rising fastest in strategic importance.

The American Hospital Association asks the FDA to adopt flexible, risk-based methods to measure and evaluate AI-enabled medical device performance, align new standards with existing frameworks, and minimize burden while protecting privacy and patient safety. It also requests that FDA streamline the 510k clearance process that has been used by 96% of AI-enabled medical devices to earn its clearance. It recommends developing post-market evaluation standards to help vendors identify accuracy and validity issues.

CogStack, an open-source AI tool that was created by King’s College London, UCL, and several NHS trusts, extracts meaning from structured and unstructured health-record data to improve patient care, safety, and population health research. Providers recouped their investment within two years by using the open-source system for trial recruitment, faster medication reviews, better coding, and identifying missing records.

LCMC Health will implement Nabla’s ambient documentation technology.

Google.org donates $5 million to launch an EU health initiative that will allow frontline clinicians to build and test their own AI solutions.

Business

The founder of Yara AI and his clinical psychologist co-founder shut down their mental health chatbot after concluding that AI poses unacceptable risks for vulnerable users, citing unclear safety boundaries, mounting evidence of harmful behavior in large language models, new legal restrictions, and the inability of small startups to manage crisis-level interactions responsibly. Joe Braidwood says the team struggled to distinguish routine stress from trauma or serious mental illness, making it difficult to know when to support users and when to direct them to a professional, especially since many people are unaware of their own mental state and can become emotionally fragile at any time.

Healthcare AI agent developer Artera raises a $65 million growth investment and expects to reach $100 million in contracted annual recurring revenue by the end of the year.

Research

A study finds that the Queen of Hearts AI-based ECG platform outperformed standard ED triage in identifying ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

Other

The New York Times reports that people are downloading their medical records from provider patient portals and then uploading them to ChatGPT and other online AI tools seeking medical advice and interpretation. Experts warn of unreliable results and the possibility that  ongoing AI training might allow a chatbot to leak sensitive information.

A hospital in Canada says that the widely reported heartwarming story of one of its parking attendant volunteers reserving parking spaces for families in need is not factual. The post appeared on a Facebook page called Astonishing, which freely admits that it makes up stories for inspiration and entertainment and enhances them with AI-generated photos.

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