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Utah approves slew of health AI pilots for drug management, women’s health
The state has expanded its controversial healthcare AI program with three new pilots that could ultimately see the technology provide care plans and medications without human review.
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Are AI agents the key to optimizing online appointment scheduling?
Community Health Network deployed AI agents to help navigate consumers through the common logjams that keep them from using online appointment scheduling.
Data privacy concerns could hold patients back from using AI
Although artificial intelligence has quickly become integrated into our daily lives, Americans say they’re becoming increasingly concerned about their health data.
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Access, not hesitancy, stymies flu vaccine rates
Surveying shows vaccine hesitancy isn't all that's dampening flu vaccine rates, as care access and mixed messaging keep people who want the shot from receiving it.
AI will inflate healthcare costs before lowering them, Oz says
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ARPA-H selects 6 teams for agentic cardiovascular AI program
ARPA-H awarded six contracts to develop autonomous AI agents that can adjust cardiac care plans without human cardiologist oversight as part of its ADVOCATE program.
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Less than 1% of FDA-cleared AI devices tested for clinical benefits
A recent study revealed that only three of 1,300+ FDA-cleared AI medical devices were evaluated for patient outcomes, exposing gaps in clinical evidence requirements.
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OpenEvidence launches 4 medical AI models
One of the company's latest models, Darwin, outperformed some of its top competitors by receiving a perfect score on the MedQA benchmark.
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Medical groups continue to diverge from CDC on fall vaccine schedule
AAFP, AAP and peer groups' vaccine recommendations remain consistent with previous years, but they now diverge from the CDC's advisories calling for shared decision-making before annual COVID vaccination.
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Study: More young women skip cervical cancer screenings
The number of women aged 21-29 having never gotten a cervical cancer screening nearly doubled between 2005 and 2023, researchers wrote.
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Docs say medical misinformation is on the rise, but AI isn't behind it
Physicians say social media is the biggest contributor to the rise in medical misinformation, not patient use of AI chatbots.
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As AI tools multiply, health systems are centralizing AI management
Implementations of a centralized platform at Inova Health and Mount Sinai Health System show how unifying AI management can support ongoing AI implementation and governance efforts.
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From 100 hours to 10: Tech streamlines cancer data collection, insights
Cancer center leaders discuss how joining ConcertAI's CancerLinQ network cut QOPI data abstraction time, while enabling data insights and benchmarking.
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3 considerations for health systems adopting AI chatbots
As health systems consider adopting their own AI chatbots, they must assess how the tool will fit into the market -- and their end-users' workflows.
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How a clinical-reasoning framework can help improve smaller AI models' performance
Researchers built a clinical framework to study the reasoning of smaller open-source AI models to make them more accessible and cost-effective, especially in rural areas.