The Pennsylvania Department of State and the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine have filed a lawsuit requesting a preliminary injunction against chatbot developer Character.AI. The company, formally ...

Greater transparency in ensuring that users clearly understand when they are interacting with an AI system rather than a human being. Chatbots should not present as a licensed clinician or a human ...

Oracle is taking on $16 billion debt, this time largely funded by bond fund PIMCO. This funded a single data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan. Total financing announced in late April was $16 ...

In the Chutes department…remember the scandal around healthcare ad trackers back in 2022? After multiple lawsuits, Congressional hearings, Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ...

Eric Topol, MD answers his own startling question, contrasting medical imaging with decision support for both clinicians and patients. His recent Substack ‘Ground Truths’ article (link below, free ...

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No spam, promotions, or list selling.) ChatGPT for Healthcare was announced in January, but available to only a limited group of healthcare organizations. UnitedHealth Group is having some better days ...

This is a follow up–and a short review–of last week’s mention of RapidSOS’s premiere of their ‘Behind the Emergency’ video. Your Editor viewed this today, along with most of the panel discussion ...

The company reported in a corporate statement on 24 April that an unauthorized party accessed data in certain Medtronic corporate IT systems. Medtronic has not identified, to date, any effects on, as ...

Teladoc formally responds to the Blue Orca Capital research report [TTA 25 Feb]. Their letter (PDF) via its legal counsel (King & Spalding) yesterday refutes Blue Orca’s allegations in a report on ...

An interesting follow up on last month’s rampant speculation of an Oracle Health sale. Bloomberg News’ Brody Ford broke the news coursing through Reddit’s Oracle threads last week about the departure ...

The VA’s EHR modernization (EHRM) plans may be hearing screeching brakes or a swerve if this bill sees daylight. Last week’s House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs reviewed 27 bills plus five discussion ...