Morning Headlines 11/16/23

Forward Raises $100M and Announces Forward CarePod

Primary care provider Forward Health announces CarePod, a self-contained, unstaffed “doctor in a box” that is available to members who pay $99 per month to access AI-powered apps that perform screening and create care plans.

UnitedHealthcare’s broken AI denied seniors’ medical claims, lawsuit alleges

The estates of two deceased men sue UnitedHealth Group, claiming that the company uses an algorithm to override physician assessments in denying care to its Medicare Advantage enrollees.

Aranscia Acquires YouScript from Invitae

Precision diagnostics vendor Aranscia acquires select assets of the YouScript personalized medication management platform from digital medical genetics company Invitae.

Health Disinformation Use Case Highlighting the Urgent Need for Artificial Intelligence Vigilance

Researchers find that ChatGPT can rapidly and effortlessly create medical disinformation blog posts about vaccines and vaping, including impressive but fake patient and clinician testimonials and literature citations.