Healthcare AI News 9/10/25

News

Bayer will shut down its radiology AI businesses, discontinuing Calantic Digital Solutions AI and the service offerings of Blackford Analysis. A market analyst attributed the move to slow adoption, along with reimbursement barriers that have pushed venture funding toward unregulated AI applications such as back-office automation and workflow tools.

The VA is implementing an AI-based weapons scanner from a vendor that is being sued by the Federal Trade Commission for false advertising. The FTC says the system costs 25 times more than standard metal detectors, doesn’t actually use AI, and relies only on electromagnetic sensing to detect metal. The company has not published validation studies, while an outside review found that half of museum visitors triggered alarms on a rainy day because of their umbrellas.

Business

University Hospitals will deploy Hippocratic AI’s conversational agents for preventative screening calls, patient education, and appointment scheduling.

Conversational AI vendor Hello Patient raises $22.5 million in a Series A funding round. The company’s AI assistant manages conversations across voice, text, and chat.

Research

Researchers from Mount Sinai’s medical school develop AEquity, which detects and corrects bias in healthcare datasets before they are used for AI training.

Other

Utah-based Revere Health will lay off 177 employees as it outsources claims processing to IKS Health, which will use AI to perform the work.

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