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Broadband Gaps Lock Millions Out of Telehealth
Nearly 12 million Americans remain entirely cut off from virtual care due to inadequate...
Patients using AI trust their doctors more
Instead of replacing doctors, generative AI is turning patients into more cooperative and trusting...
AI Prior Authorization Pilot Sparks Patient Care Crisis
A Medicare pilot designed to curb wasteful spending is instead stranding patients in pain...
AI recommendations can degrade dental diagnostic accuracy
Visual AI alerts do not make dentists more accurate, and they can actually coax...
Patients Are Auditing Hospital AI Tools
Hospitals deploying clinical AI without patient input risk building tools that break the patient-doctor...
AI removes blood vessels from breast MRIs
By erasing distracting blood vessels from breast MRI scans, a new deep learning tool...
Scaling Ambient AI Past the Pilot Phase
As healthcare systems rush to deploy ambient AI scribes, the real challenge is shifting...
Generative AI does not cure doctor burnout
Simply handing generative AI tools to exhausted physicians will not solve the healthcare burnout...
AI Voice Agents Take Over Insurance Hotlines
Automating the front lines of Medicare enrollment proves that conversational AI can handle administrative...