The FDA will not regulate wearable devices that provide nonmedical-grade health information, a move aimed at giving technology companies clearer guidance as AI-driven health tools proliferate, Fox Business reported Jan. 6. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, announced the shift during…

AI is rapidly becoming clinical infrastructure. But accountability frameworks have not scaled at the same pace. When AI contributes to harm, many organizations still end up improvising answers to the same question: Who is responsible? A World Health Organization Europe…

Chicago-based Rush University System for Health is teaming up with Amazon One Medical to boost access to its virtual — and in-person — specialty care. The three-hospital system started working with the tech giant’s hybrid primary care company Jan. 1,…

Laurel, Miss.-based South Central Regional Medical Center and its consortium partners are finalizing preparations to launch a new Epic EHR system, with a Jan. 31 go-live date approaching. The transition includes South Central Regional Medical Center, Covington County Hospital, Magee…

Utah has launched a pilot program that allows artificial intelligence — without physician involvement — to renew certain medical prescriptions, Politico reported Jan. 6. The program, developed with health technology startup Doctronic, began in December and is limited to routine…

Large language models frequently misrepresent verbal risk terms used in medicine, potentially amplifying patient misunderstandings and diverging from established clinical definitions, according to a study spearheaded by researchers from Vanderbilt Health in Nashville, Tenn. The findings, published Dec. 17 in…

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco have developed a computer model that combines AI and genetics to diagnose pneumonia in critically ill patients with 96% accuracy. The model pairs a generative AI analysis of electronic health records with…

Chicago-based Rush University System for Health is collaborating with Amazon One Medical to expand access to primary and specialty care. The three-hospital system partnered with the tech giant’s hybrid primary care company Jan. 1 to coordinate care through One Medical’s…

The American Medical Association is asking Congress to make pandemic-era telemedicine changes permanent ahead of their Jan. 30 expiration. Those flexibilities lapsed amid the recent government closure, coinciding with a 24% national decline in fee-for-service telehealth visits during the first…

Foundation AI models trained on EHRs may inadvertently retain and expose sensitive patient information, according to a study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. The study examined how clinical AI models can “memorize” individual patient data…