Healthcare AI News 4/22/26

News

Michael and Susan Dell donate $750 million to the University of Texas at Austin to fund a new AI-native medical center and research campus. Michael Dell says that building from scratch allows data, computing, and AI to be embedded from the start, enabling earlier decisions, better care coordination, and improved outcomes. He left UT Austin as a pre-med sophomore to start Dell Technologies.

Meta Platforms will install tracking software on the computers of its US employees to capture their mouse and keyboard activity, along with screenshots, for AI training. The company says that it needs the data to help its models understand real-world usage and promises that it won’t use the information to review job performance.

AI chatbot apps are marketing themselves as providing “therapy” while disclosing in the fine print that they do not offer advice, diagnosis, or treatment that should be provided by a licensed professional. Experts warn of a lack of evidence of effectiveness, the absence of FDA standards, and the tendency of chatbots to empathize or flatter users instead of redirecting conversations toward issues the user is avoiding.

Business

Smart ring maker Oura acquires Galen AI, a year-old startup that offers an AI-powered personal health companion.

Denial management technology vendor Amperos Health raises $16 million in a Series A funding round.

AcuitMD, which offers medical device sales software, raises $80 million in a Series C funding round.

Specialty medical practice software vendor ModMed acquires Bonsai Health, which automates front-office workflows with agentic AI.

Other

In Australia, whistleblowers at Royal Darwin Hospital say severe understaffing, poor hygiene, and inadequate training are compromising patient care, with nurses sometimes relying on YouTube for training and ChatGPT to calculate medication doses.

An elite Wall Street law firm that bills $2,000 per hour admits in an $8 billion bankruptcy case that rival firms correctly identified AI hallucinations in its emergency filing, including nonexistent citations and misquoted laws. The firm, which advises OpenAI on AI ethics, says that its internal AI policies were not followed.

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