Healthcare AI News 12/17/25

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Mass General Brigham spins out AIwithCare, an AI-powered tool that matches patients to clinical trials.

In China, a health app from a financial technology company is answering 5 million questions daily. Ant Afu, whose parent company is affiliated with tech firm Alibaba, provides health tracking, goal reminders, smart device integration, AI Clinic follow-ups, report interpretation, and a connection to 300,000 doctors for online consultations and appointment booking.

NAACP urges an equity-first approach to designing and deploying healthcare AI to prevent widening racial and socioeconomic disparities.

Scott Gottlieb, MD writes in JAMA Health Forum that AI has not yet lifted healthcare productivity because clinical work remains labor-intensive and is judged by outcomes, not output. He argues that AI will raise productivity by taking over cognitive and physical tasks, allowing physicians to focus on judgment-driven care. He also calls for replacing FDA’s static device framework with a system that allows safe, iterative AI updates without full reapproval unless performance fails to meet standards. He adds that adoption remains slow because Medicare’s budget-neutral payment rules require any new technology spending to be offset by cuts to physician reimbursement.

A Brookings report says that AI companion apps pose health risks because they lack guardrails, encourage addictive use, and displace human relationships. It concludes that AI companions should be treated as a public health issue using regulatory tools such as those that govern medical products.

Business

A UK doctor and YouTube celebrity says that Google’s AI search summary incorrectly claimed that his license had been suspended and that he exploited patients, misled insurers, and was disciplined for his online content.

Research

Researchers offer guidance for physicians on responding when patients present AI-generated recommendations that conflict with the clinician’s diagnosis or treatment plan.

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Many healthcare organizations have set up AI governance committees, but most lack a formal approval process for deploying AI and ommit ethics representation, a survey from Censinet and the CHIME Foundation finds. Two-thirds expect to implement agentic AI within the next year, a risky shift because these systems execute autonomous workflows rather than offering recommendations.

Health systems with under $1 billion in revenue see strong value in AI for revenue cycle management, but cost and budget restrictions slow their adoption. Survey respondents cite the top opportunities as finding missed reimbursement, flagging gaps in clinical documentation, and identifying missed quality indicators.

Hospitals and cosmetic surgery centers in South Korea are using inexpensive AI-generated stock “patient” photos to show expected surgical results. The practice is legal, but experts warn that failing to disclose AI use could violate consumer advertising rules. Patients are also bringing AI-enhanced images of themselves to consultations to illustrate desired outcomes, raising  concerns that standardized, often Westernized, features could drive new forms of discrimination. Up to half of female Korean college students have undergone procedures, often provided as graduation gifts, and hospitals promote plastic surgery medical tourism packages to non-residents.

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Healthcare AI News 12/10/25

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Microsoft Research releases GigaTIME, an open-source, multi-modal AI system that researchers used to convert pathology slides into virtual images, then analyze them against patient data from Providence. The resulting virtual population allows researchers to study the associations between cell states and key biomarkers.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns that China can complete large construction projects, such as AI data centers, in a fraction of the time that is needed in the US. He added, “They can build a hospital in a weekend.”

Business

Meditation and sleep app vendor Headspace, which is repositioning itself as a healthcare company, is shifting from consumer subscriptions to employer and health-plan distribution. CEO Tom Pickett is pushing hard into AI with Ebb, a chatbot that is intended for everyday emotional regulation, after he moved the company’s full-time therapists into part-time and contractor positions. Competition with Calm is intensifying as downloads fall, but Headspace says that enterprise and payer channels offer greater scale. The company reports $200 million in revenue and EBITDA profitability. Headspace acquired health coaching company Ginger four years ago in a deal that valued the combined company at $3 billion.

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A charity study in England and Wales finds that 40% of teens who have been affected by youth violence have used AI chatbots for mental health support. They describe chatbots as being more private, non-judgmental, and accessible than traditional services that are bogged down by long waiting lists and reports of providers who show little empathy compared to chatbots. The teens also tout 24×7 availability and the ability of chatbots to learn and then mimic their conversational style.

A study finds that 28% of UK doctors are using AI tools to summarize encounters, help with diagnosis, and perform routine administrative tasks. A physician researcher at Nuffield Trust says that the government’s hopes that AI will transform the NHS are not reflected in the “Wild West” rollout of unregulated tools. The trust’s survey also found that doctors use their time savings from AI to self-care and rest rather than to see more patients.

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A developer discovers a hidden link in ChatGPT to Apple Health, suggesting that the companies are testing integration between the apps.

A class action lawsuit alleges that Sharp HealthCare deployed Abridge’s ambient documentation solution in April 2025 without obtaining all-party consent as required by a California wiretapping law. The plaintiffs argue that Sharp committed electronic eavesdropping, violated the state’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act by sending patient information to the vendor’s cloud, falsely documented that patients had consented to AI’s use, and told patients that they could not force the vendor to delete their information on request.

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Healthcare AI News 12/3/25

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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.

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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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Healthcare AI News 11/19/25

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Google releases Gemini 3 and Google Antigravity, a new agentic AI development platform.

Microsoft announces Agent 365, which helps enterprises deploy, organize, and govern agents that are developed internally or provided by ecosystem partners.

An anecdotal New York Times review of how people are using AI chatbots for medical purposes shows interesting points:

• A survey from last year shows that one in six adults, and one in four of those under 30, regularly seek medical information from AI bots like ChatGPT.
• The primary reasons for asking AI are lack of medical system support, excessive wait times, inattentive doctors, and unaffordable bills.
• Many users say that AI is kinder than their human providers.
• One woman copied ChatGPT’s responses and sent them to her oncologist to show how their bedside manner could improve.
• Another patient, frustrated by her PCP’s generic advice in response to her bone density questions, asked ChatGPT the same questions and immediately received specific diet instructions. She emailed her doctor to complain that ChatGPT gave her more information than they did. The patient says she does not not fully trust ChatGPT but is frustrated with the state of corporate medical care.

Business

Arbiter emerges from stealth with $52 million in funding to apply AI to longitudinal patient records to match referrals, automate authorizations, support outreach, and manage scheduling.

Ember, which offers AI technology for proactive denial prevention, prior authorizations and appeals, eligibility checks, and charge capture, raises $4.3 million in seed funding.

Medical imaging company Nanox will acquire VasoHealthcare IT, a health IT implementation services provider that will accelerate deployment of Nanox’s AI solutions.

RapidAI earns FDA clearance for its aortic disease assessment and management AI tool.

Medscape transforms searches of its site to an AI tool that can answer questions using its continuously updated content, peer-reviewed medical literature, and medical news.

Research

A Black Book Research survey of hospital leaders finds that hospitals are quickly piloting AI solutions, but lack the governance that is needed to ensure clarity, accountability, and proof of claims. Hospitals often fail to measure success factors during pilots and sign contracts that don’t require re-validation when the vendor makes major updates to its AI model. Three-fourths of respondents say their hospital has experienced at least one AI pilot that didn’t scale, most often because of endpoints that fail to measure clinical or operational impact, lack of performance data, and failure to integrate AI tools into existing workflows.

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Healthcare AI News 11/12/25

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The Vatican convenes a Rome conference this week titled “AI and Medicine: The Challenge of Human Dignity,” where a church official warned of the risk of “transforming health and illness into mere numerical data … the ability to personalize treatment remains an irreplaceable medical skill.” In his remarks to participants, Pope Leo XIV urged healthcare professionals to use AI responsibly, emphasizing that healthcare cannot be reduced to problem-solving and that technology must not interfere with the patient–caregiver relationship. He concluded by cautioning that “vast economic interests are often at stake in the fields of medicine and technology, and the subsequent fight for control.”

Microsoft forms an MAI Superintelligence Team to develop AI that exceeds human capability, with medical diagnostics being its first focus area.

OpenAI is reportedly considering entering the consumer health market, such as creating a personal health assistant or health data aggregator

Business

Sentara Health will implement Andor Health’s agentic AI virtual care software at its 12 hospitals, starting with virtual nursing, virtual sitting, remote consultations, and transactional care management.

InterSystems launches HealthShare AI Assistant, which provides a conversational chat user interface for its HealthShare Unified Care Record.

Research

A small study of patients in Africa finds that frontline nurses and community health workers can identify patients who are at risk for reduced ejection fraction heart failure by using Eko Health’s AI-assisted stethoscope.

A Black Book Research survey finds that most US hospitals are underfunding AI governance even as adoption accelerates. Only 22% say they could deliver an auditable AI explanation to regulators or payers within 30 days, citing lack of vendor explainability as the biggest barrier.

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A TV station’s test finds that while ChatGPT and Gemini answered health questions with disclaimers that they aren’t real people or licensed professionals, AI storytelling platform Character.AI displayed a similar warning but then falsely claimed to be a real doctor, giving the user a fake name with a valid medical license number that belongs to a Los Angeles immunologist. The company says that user-created characters are fictional and for entertainment only, which is why it includes the disclaimer.

The American Nurses Foundation (ANF) partners with Hippocratic AI to fund three nurse-led grants of $10,000 each for experienced frontline nurses to explore AI and innovation in nursing.

A healthcare empathy professor says that while AI can generate empathetic-sounding written responses, the real issue is that a broken healthcare system has drained clinicians of empathy through paperwork, burnout, and rigid protocols, effectively turning them into machines. He warns that we are moving toward an ironic world where AI takes over the parts of care humans do best, while humans are left doing tasks that computers should handle. He concludes:

The technology will continue advancing, regardless. The question is whether we’ll use it to support human empathy or substitute for it and whether we’ll fix the system that broke our healthcare workers or simply replace them with machines that were never broken to begin with.

Psychiatrist and political anthropologist Eric Reinhart, MD argues that when AI is installed in “a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance, and profit extraction,” it becomes just another tool for commodifying human life. He adds that AI can’t improve medicine by leapfrogging structural change, but it does give policymakers and corporations an excuse to ignore abysmal public health and hospitals a way to squeeze more profitable productivity out of doctors. He says:

We risk entering a perverse loop: machines are supplying the language with which patients relay their suffering, and doctors are using machines to record and respond to that suffering. This cultivates what psychologists call “cognitive miserliness”, or a tendency to default to the most readily available answer rather than engage in critical inquiry or self-reflection. By outsourcing thought, and ultimately the most intimate definitions of ourselves to AI, doctors and patients risk becoming yet further alienated from one another.

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Healthcare AI News 11/5/25

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Nearly all surveyed health system executives believe that digital and AI tools can help them move to more proactive care. Most see key areas as providing off-campus care, using CRM systems to schedule ongoing care, collecting health data via devices, implementing AI health coaches to answer questions and help patients follow their care plans, and predicting health risks using AI. They also hope to personalize patient care using connected device monitoring, offering multiple communication channels, using technology to personalize care plans and messages.

Health insurers will use AI to counter the use by providers of AI-powered coding and billing, which they say has increased medical cost and thus decreased their profit. According to Centene’s CFO, “It does seem like hospitals have gotten better organized around the application of AI for coding than payers. But we’re going to catch up to that.”

OpenAI denies several viral social media posts claiming that ChatGPT has been disabled from providing health advice. However, the company says that its updated terms of service advise that the chatbot is not a substitute for professional advice and it will no longer provide a diagnosis or patient-specific treatment plan, reportedly due to legal and regulatory exposure.

Business

Hancock Health will use AI-driven robotic automation from Arrive AI to deliver lab specimens, a project that also includes drone-based transport for offsite deliveries.

Mayo Clinic announces Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights, which gives healthcare organizations access to its AI-driven clinical and operational expertise for digital solutions implementation. Mayo didn’t specify which modules or problem areas it will address or provide details about selling its services.

Healthcare AI agent vendor Hippocratic AI announces $126 million in Series C funding at a valuation of $3.5 billion. The company plans to use some of the proceeds to pursue mergers and acquisitions. It offers AI agents that handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks such as medication reminders and screening outreach.

For-profit urgent care chain Med First finds that AI-coded visits yield 6% more revenue than when physician codes visits themselves.

Tala Health, which develops AI agents to support clinicians and to address administrative burden, raises $100 million in financing.

Tulio Health Technologies launches CareCapture, an app that generates AI summaries of visits that patients can share to improve recall, adherence, and confidence.

Research

Northwell Health researchers report that AI analysis of continuous wearable data from non-ICU inpatients accurately predicted patient deterioration an average of 17 hours in advance.

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OpenAI recognizes pharma and life sciences marketing firm Doceree for using 10 billion AI tokens, making it one of the most advanced users of AI technology.

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Healthcare AI News 10/29/25

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Hospital for Special Surgery hip and knee replacement patients give high marks to an AI-powered chatbot that was trained on the hospital’s patient education materials to answer their pre- and post-op questions. The small study found that most questions were asked before the operation rather than after, and patients said they were comforted by knowing that someone was always available to respond. The technology was provided by customer care AI agent vendor Aidify.

A Johns Hopkins study finds that physicians perceive their AI-using peers as less capable, regardless of whether those doctors use it for primary decisions or for verification. Doctors viewed peers most favorably when they avoided generative AI altogether, even though most said they appreciate its healthcare potential.

Cleveland Clinic expands its use of Bayesian Health’s sepsis detection software, which applies AI to EHR data to identify at-risk patients. The Clinic is an investor in the company.

The American Medical Association asks ASTP/ONC to harmonize federal AI regulations, remove regulatory barriers, and ensure that clinicians review algorithms that affect patient privacy and safety.

Business

Laudio enhances its leader operations platform with Performance Insights, an AI tool that provides insight for mentorship and performance management.

England-based Aide Health, which develops apps to help patients manage chronic conditions, launches an AI tool that records and summarizes medical visits for patients and their families. The company says that its Mirror app improves prescription adherence and engagement, reduces avoidable visits, and helps patients retain information that they would otherwise forget, which it estimates is 80% of what is discussed during appointments.

Research

OpenAI finds that 0.07% of ChatGPT users who are active in a given week exhibit possible signs of mental health emergencies in their AI conversations. The company created a network of 170 psychiatrists, psychologists, and primary care physicians to devise ChatGPT responses that encourage users to seek real-world help. The company acknowledges that while the percentage is tiny, it still represents hundreds of thousands of users.

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A man’s brother-in-law dies of a heart attack during a brief ED visit that generated a hospital bill for $195,000. The brother used ChatGPT to negotiate it down to $37,000 by requesting an itemized bill with CPT codes, comparing the charges to Medicare rates, and then finding major discrepancies. The hospital agreed to correct its charges, but asked him to accept the bill reduction as charity care. He declined, saying that the move was likely to protect the hospital’s tax-exempt status. He concludes that “hospitals know they are the criminals they are” and that no one should pay more out of pocket than Medicare would.

An 1,800-attorney law firm apologizes to a judge in a hospital bankruptcy case for submitting an AI-generated filing that contained inaccurate and fabricated legal citations. The hospital alerted the court that the document appeared to be AI-generated, but the attorney initially denied it, later admitting that while she hadn’t used AI herself, she knew it had been used but let it pass because she was overworked.

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Healthcare AI News 10/22/25

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OpenEvidence, which offers an AI-powered clinical decision support search engine, raises $200 million in Series C funding just three months after a $210 million round, valuing the company at $6 billion.

The American Medical Association launches the Center for Digital Health and AI, which will promote physician participation in regulatory matters, clinical workflow integration, and education.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas, a web browser that includes a context-aware side panel chatbot and a web browsing agent. The initial version is Mac only.

Business

Risk-based contract technology provider Arbital Health announces Merlin AI, an AI assistant that interprets contract data, explains performance drivers, and recommends next steps.

Cancer detection AI vendor Lunit acquires Prognosia, mammogram analysis software that was founded by researchers from Washington University School of Medical in St. Louis.

Verily will use AI to analyze biomedical data from UCHealth and CU Anschutz to find revenue opportunities. Also involved is RefinedScience, a tech-driven cancer drug discovery startup that is based on commercialized research from CU Anschutz.

Virtual care operator Counsel Health raises a $25 million Series A funding round. The company offers an AI chatbot that answers health questions, then escalates the conversation as needed to a physician within its 50-state network. Bringing a doctor into the conversation costs $29 per use or a $199 annual fee that includes unlimited physician involvement.

Healthcare educator Adtalem Global Education and Google Cloud will offer role-specific AI certification training to its health professions students and healthcare system partners.

Real-world evidence technology vendor Atropos Health launches an expert agent that generates personalized real-world evidence from a patient’s EHR data to suggest treatment options. Stanford Health Care has integrated the technology with its internally developed ChatEHR system.

Allina Health is piloting Optum Real, a real-time, AI-powered claims system that provides instant insurance coverage checks and upfront claims validation via payer-provider interoperability.

Trilliant Health releases Oria, a free AI chatbot for hospital price discovery.

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Healthcare AI News 10/15/25

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Google backtracks on an internal health policy that required employees to allow a third-party AI tool from startup Nayya review their personal data when enrolling in health benefits. Nayya’s tool asks health and lifestyle questions to recommend benefit options. The company says, “Our intent was not reflected in the language on our HR site.”

Business

OpenAI will enhance ChatGPT to allow Walmart customers to complete Instant Checkout purchases directly from the app. The partnership threatens traditional search engines by delivering predictive, contextual results from chats such as meal planning.

Duos, which offers an AI-driven platform that helps Medicare Advantage members manage social determinants of aging, raises $130 million in a strategic growth equity round. The system guides members through their plan benefits and services to ensure that they complete high-value actions that improve health plan revenue and member retention.

Research

A JAMA summit report says that AI is rapidly spreading across healthcare but lacks consistent evaluation, oversight, and real-world outcome data. It calls for coordinated frameworks for testing, monitoring, and incentivizing safe, effective AI use across clinical and operational settings. The report also flags legal uncertainty, noting that failure to use AI could be seen as a breach of standard of care, yet malpractice liability may be difficult to assign among clinicians, health systems, and AI developers.

Researchers propose a framework of “confidence calibration and transparency” to improve clinician trust in AI by scoring its recommendations. Clinician override of AI recommendations dropped from 33% to less than 2% when the AI scored itself on its level of confidence, transparency, and semantic similarity to a clinician-verified diagnosis.

Researchers introduce an AI system that presents Grand Rounds-type medical case information and the logic its used to reach a diagnosis. The authors posted the AI’s output, which is generated in both written and narrated slide-based presentation form, alongside an expert clinician’s version. The AI-created video is startlingly insightful.

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An AI engineer who probes AI tools for undocumented features finds references  to a “clinician mode” within ChatGPT’s web app code.

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Healthcare AI News 10/8/25

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Microsoft launches a free, AI-powered claims denial navigator from its Rural Health AI Innovation Lab.

The VA updates its AI strategy, which includes deploying tools for scheduling, real-time transcription, claims processing, and administrative tasks.

HHS officials say that the administration opposes private-sector vetting of healthcare AI tools, warning that it could shut out startups.

Samsung will add a heart failure detection feature to its Galaxy watches using an algorithm for left ventricular systolic dysfunction, while also developing Korea-built Ear-EEG technology that uses ear-worn electrodes to detect drowsiness and analyze video preferences.

Business

UnitedHealth Group hires Michael Pencina, PhD, Duke Health’s chief data scientist and co-founder of the Coalition for Health AI, as chief AI scientist.

Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin says that the company’s $6.75 billion acquisition of Press Ganey was driven by AI, giving the customer experience and analytics vendor “the most complete, specialized AI platform” to speed adoption in healthcare.

Research

A study finds that clinician burnout fell from 52% to 39% within 30 days of implementing an ambient AI scribe across six health systems, with additional gains in documentation efficiency, patient communication, scheduling flexibility, and after-hours workload.

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Some parents are letting their children use generative AI toys and chatbots to spark their creativity, but experts warn that the tools can confuse kids about what is real, limit their originality, and mislead them. A parent turned his four-year-old son, who is a fan of “Thomas the Train Engine,” over to ChatGPT’s voice mode and found him still talking two hours and 10,000 words later. He laments, “My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train-loving person in the world. I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

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Healthcare AI News 10/1/25

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The White House issues an executive order, “Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer with Artificial Intelligence,” that doubles HHS funding for the National Cancer Institute’s AI-driven childhood cancer data initiative.

The FDA issues a Request for Public Comment on how to measure and evaluate real-world performance of AI-enabled medical devices.

Amazon announces a new generation of Echo devices that support its Alexa+ ambient AI assistant. The company says that Early Access users of Alexa+ are engaging the device in deeper conversations and using it to complete tasks related to smart home devices, booking reservations, and managing the family calendar. The Echo Show 8 costs $180, while the no-display Echo Dot Max runs $100. All models feature enhanced audio capabilities and the ability to be paired for richer sound.

Business

AI-powered revenue management vendor SmarterDx acquires Pieces Technologies and launches SmarterNotes, which retrieves EHR data to create patient notes and flag missed revenue.

Business Insider reports that ambient scribe vendor Abridge, once closely partnered with and partly owned by Epic, now competes with the EHR giant as Epic develops its own AI tools. Abridge has raised $700 million at a $5 billion valuation.

Cardiac data management vendor RhythmScience licenses a heart failure algorithm from Cedars-Sinai, whose venture arm also led its Series A round.

Ambience Healthcare launches the first ambient AI inpatient CDI assistant, built on OpenAI, to capture compliant diagnoses at the point of care with explainable audit trails and EHR integration.

Research

A 20-year-old biomedical engineering student creates ShotCaller, a mapping tool that helps Children’s Hospital Los Angeles oncologists target radiation for treatment-resistant tumors. Clinicians say their use of the tool has reduced the time required to create a radiation hotspot map from two hours to eight minutes.

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Not healthcare related, but don’t forget to check your ChatGPT setup. A Reddit user whose wife uses their shared ChatGPT account to obtain marriage advice adds custom instructions.

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Healthcare AI News 9/24/25

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A new ASTP report says that 71% of hospitals used predictive AI tools in EHRs in 2024, mainly for outcomes, but increasingly for billing and scheduling.

Cleveland Clinic will expand its rollout of AI-powered sepsis detection system from Bayesian Health, in which it is an investor.

Clinic operator Akido Labs uses a proprietary LLM to let medical assistants conduct visits that are guided by ScopeAI, which generates and adapts questions, then summarizes the encounter for physician review. The company says the approach allows doctors to see four to five times more patients.

Business

Apple says that it  applied AI to its Heart and Movement Study data to build an algorithm that powers blood pressure monitoring in the new Apple Watch.

Research

An AI model that was trained on population data forecasts rates and outcomes across 1,000 diseases more accurately than many standard models, while also identifying comorbidity patterns over time.

A study says that the rollout of imaging AI in NHS hospitals has proven harder than expected, citing long procurement and contracting timelines, challenges in integration with legacy systems, resistance from skeptical clinical staff, and uneven governance. The authors conclude, “While AI tools may offer valuable support for diagnostic services, they may not address current healthcare service pressures as straightforwardly as policymakers may hope.”

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Albania’s government pledges a healthcare transformation that will be based on introducing AI in hospitals and expanding international alliances.

Expper Technology’s “huggable” AI robot Robin is being used in 30 nursing homes and pediatric units to offset staff shortages, engaging patients with music, conversation, jokes, and memory games. Thirty percent of Robin’s actions are autonomous,  while remote operators control the rest under clinical supervision.

Mayo Clinic nurses help build an AI-powered, EHR-integrated virtual assistant that creates nurse-specific patient summaries with links to clinical references.

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Healthcare AI News 9/10/25

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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.

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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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Healthcare AI News 9/3/25

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Epic launches Comet, a set of generative AI models that were trained on 100 billion de-identified patient records from a subset of Cosmos data. The models learn how clinical patterns evolve to predict likely outcomes. Research access opens in February 2026.

A local TV station reports that Lee Health (FL) has deployed AI for ambient scribing and an orthopedic chatbot, with additional plans for a patient scheduling chatbot and an AI voice system to handle incoming calls.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center CMIO Dara Mize, MD, MS says that its 100-physician DAX Copilot pilot has freed up documentation time while improving quality. More than half of participating faculty physicians say that the technology makes them less likely to leave, while one reported easier visits with Spanish-speaking patients thanks to real-time translation.

Business

Northeastern University profiles alumni-founded Predictive Healthcare and its MyHealthPal tool, which uses AI to detect surgical site infections earlier.

AI-driven revenue cycle and analytics technology vendor MedEvolve sells its RCM services business to Sustainable Medical Billing , which will continue to use MedEvolve’s products. MedEvolve will focus on its Effective Intelligence platform, practice management software, and AI-powered workflow automation and analytics.

Healthcare email privacy compliance technology vendor Paubox releases an AI-powered inbox security solution. 

Research

A study finds that 6% of 950 FDA-cleared AI-enabled devices were tied to 182 recall events. Half of the recalls happened within a year of clearance, and products that lacked clinical validation and those sold by publicly traded companies were disproportionately involved. The authors conclude that FDA’s 510(k) process may overlook early AI product failures and that investor pressure may push public companies to launch products prematurely.

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CMS’s six-state, AI-based pilot project to require prior authorization for a dozen costly, low-value procedures — such as nerve stimulators and incontinence devices — will pay vendors a cut of denied claims. Critics warn that it imports the least popular feature of Medicare Advantage into traditional Medicare and could set up adversarial battles between providers and government.

A man claims that he applied to become CEO of OpenAI — promising to replace the entire C-suite with AI agents — and received this clever company response. If it isn’t true, I still want it to be.

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Healthcare AI News 8/27/25

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Cleveland Clinic will implement Dyania Health’s AI-powered tool that scans medical records to identify clinical trial candidates. The health system has also invested in the company. Founder and CEO Eirini Schlosser is a former investment banker who previously founded an EHR data mining technology company.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI will reportedly build its own health app, tapping former health tech executives from Doximity and the investment community. Business Insider reports that OpenAI is considering both consumer-facing and enterprise tools, including clinical triage, clinical documentation, and patient engagement.

Parents sue OpenAI over the death of their teenage son, citing ChatGPT transcripts in which the chatbot engaged with him as he discussed suicide and shared self-harm photos. They allege it praised his ability to fashion a noose, confirmed his belief that it could hang a human, and suggested hiding it rather than leaving it out as a cry for help. He reportedly bypassed safety prompts by framing his questions as part of a story he was writing.

Business

India-based Narayana Health launches a self-developed ambient documentation tool for its Athma EHR. Future plans include integration of wearables, external health records, and predictive models to personalize treatments. Founder, chairman, and cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty, MBBS called out AI’s potential to reduce errors and cost:

There are millions of data points coming from everywhere, and we are constantly worried we are missing something. AI, however, can do all this and present it in a manner that allows doctors to access maximum information about the patient in the quickest possible time. More than anything else, AI will prevent doctors from making mistakes and will double or triple their productivity. They will become more efficient in treating patients properly, and errors will be reduced. In the process, costs will go down dramatically because whenever productivity increases, cost goes down.

AI precision medicine technology vendor Tempus AI acquires Paige, which has developed FDA-cleared AI pathology tools, for $81 million.

Research

Researchers build an AI system that filters EHR data for ED physicians treating urgent cases and recommends search terms that peers have found useful, in the “you might like” style of Amazon or Netflix.

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A Washington Post opinion piece says that FDA’s new AI assistant for reviewing drug approval documents is error-prone and “makes stuff up” when summarizing content. HHS attributes the criticism to disgruntled former employees. Analysts flagged a pre-launch HHS report that cited non-existent studies, included invalid links,and mischaracterized findings, concluding that it was likely written using ChatGPT.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins and other institutions warn that older Americans may not live long enough to benefit from FDA-cleared AI technologies unless  bottlenecks are removed. They recommend:

• Medicare should develop time-limited payments for AI technologies that are then converted to value-based models if they are proven effective. They note that imaging tools capture too much CMS interest compared to decision support and remote patient monitoring.
• The federal government should provide grants or tax credits to companies that support data standardization initiatives and interoperability.
• The federal government should reform the unsuccessful policies that were intended to increase rural broadband access to support remote specialist care.
• Developers should form community advisory boards to encourage AI uptake among seniors who may prefer hands-on care.

Microsoft’s head of AI warns that tools mimicking consciousness may mislead users by telling them what they want to hear. One physician predicts that clinicians will soon ask about AI usage alongside with that of smoking and alcohol. A professor expands on the concern in his book “Automating Empathy.”

While these things are convincing, they are not real. They do not feel, they do not understand, they cannot love, they have never felt pain, they haven’t been embarrassed, and while they can sound like they have, it’s only family, friends and trusted others who have. Be sure to talk to these real people.”

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Healthcare AI News 8/20/25

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OpenEvidence says that its AI system is the first to score 100% on the US medical licensing exam. The tool explained its logic in a paper that also includes the references it consulted for each question.

Bill Gates funds a $1 million contest for using AI to analyze patient data for potential Alzheimer’s therapies.

Epic CEO Judy Faulkner tells UGM attendees that the company has 200 AI features in development. The company is testing a much-anticipated AI charting tool that it developed along with Microsoft’s Dragon technology. Epic is also studying the use of AI to mine its Cosmos research database.

The Chattanooga paper covers West Tennessee Healthcare’s pilot of Xsolis’s discharge planning AI system.

China-based DeepSeek releases a new version of its open-source LLM whose capabilities rival those of OpenAI and Anthropic.

Business

AI stocks fall after an MIT report finds that 95% of revenue-focused AI projects are failing.

LookDeep Health announces Aimee, an AI agent that can monitor hospital room audio and video.

Other

A South Korean hospital is using an on-premises LLM from Konan Technologies to generate draft patient progress notes for physician review, which the project’s neurology lead says saves him 90 minutes a day.

The LA Times describes City of Hope’s use of a self-developed LLM to admit patients, summarize EHR data, match patients with clinical trials, and extract data into research-ready formats.

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Healthcare AI News 8/13/25

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OpenAI says that its newly released GPT-5 is its best model yet for answering health questions as an “active thought partner,” offering improved explanations of test results and health risks, better understanding of medical terminology, simpler presentation of treatment options, and suggestions for topics to raise at the next provider visit.

Note: My ChatGPT subscription now offers the option to switch to the previous version, GPT-4o, as many users had requested.

A new Illinois law bans the use of AI to make therapeutic decisions or deliver psychotherapy without clinician involvement.

An AI expert shortens his AGI timeline, predicting that it will be able to learn and apply knowledge in a human-like way within five years. He proposes a system in which an AI agent solves a task, breaks the solution into reusable parts, and share those components to a global library where collective learning becomes the game-changer. He has created online games as a test in which AI and humans can try to figure out the unstated rules to win, which so far AI doesn’t do nearly as well as humans.

Business

India’s Apollo Hospitals will double its AI investment over the next two to three years, expanding its use beyond image and report analysis.

Research

Researchers find that AI use may degrade the diagnostic skills of clinicians who perform colonoscopies. A previous study reported that AI tools alter the “gaze patterns” of users, causing them to focus almost entirely on the AI-highlighted areas of diagnostic images. The authors suggest that users occasionally work without their AI tools to preserve their expertise.

A Black Book Research flash survey of hospital executives finds eight areas where AI delivers immediate benefit:

1. Real-time predictive analytics for admissions, ED visits, and staffing. 
2. Financial forecasting.
3. Personalized clinical decision support.
4. Automated compliance and risk management.
5. Patient flow management.
6. Cybersecurity.
7. Supply chain optimization.
8. Revenue cycle management and complex claims management.

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Elon Musk responds on X to a post that describes how patients are using ChatGPT to advocate for themselves and to challenge the conclusions of their doctors.

A South Korean hospital develops an AI system that matches patient EHR data with a legal database to flag potential malpractice risks.

A parent in Australia says on social media that their child’s pediatrician canceled their appointment because the mom declined to allow the doctor to use an AI transcription tool. Australia’s health regulator says doctors aren’t obligated to see patients outside of emergencies, so they can turn down such visits although patient education about their use of AI might be a better approach. Startups that are developing these tools say their consent models allow opt-in or opt-out use, and one company that expected 30% of patients to decline AI involvement was surprised to see just 1% opt out. Patients can also request note deletion. Interestingly, the parent is an AI expert who questions the privacy and security oversight of such tools.

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