Study: Consumer-Facing AI Chatbots Aren’t Ready for Prime Time
The study, conducted by the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and the Oxford Internet Institute, finds that consumers using LLMs for medical advice didn’t fare any better on getting the right advice than did a control group accessing “traditional sources of information.”
Improve Transfer Services by First Knowing What You Don’t Know
Partnering health system providers simply make one call to initiate a transfer. From there, trained nurses and transfer specialists coordinate every step by assessing hospital capability and capacity, supporting physician to physician conversation, and arranging transportation.
Taking the Stress Out of Daily Doses: Smarter Medication Management for Seniors
Managing medications can become one of the most challenging parts of aging. Simplifying medication routines supports safety, confidence, and independence while easing the load on caregivers.
Tampa General’s New AI Bot Makes a Connection With Patients
Aimee is an AI tool developed by Hyro and launched last year at TGH to address call center operations. It’s Aimee’s job to answer phone calls that the call center’s human operators can’t get to, and to quickly and efficiently direct the caller to the right resource.
What Does ChatGPT Health Mean for Healthcare?
Here’s what several health industry experts had to say on the subject of OpenAI launching ChatGPT Health.
Utah OKs Prescription Refills by AI
Utah officials announced on Tuesday a partnership with AI health platform Doctronic to enable patients living with chronic conditions to use the platform to refill prescriptions. Utah becomes the first state to test the technology for prescribing and the latest example of a state talking the lead in forging AI policy.
Patient Safety Predictions for 2026, Part 2
PSQH reached out to experts throughout healthcare to get their predictions for what will happen in patient safety and healthcare quality in 2026. We received so many predictions this time around that we’re breaking it up into two parts. Here’s Part 2 of what they had to say.
Patient Safety Predictions for 2026, Part 1
PSQH reached out to experts throughout healthcare to get their predictions for what will happen in patient safety and healthcare quality in 2026. We received so many predictions this time around that we’re breaking it up into two parts. Here’s Part 1 of what they had to say.
Providence’s CIO Looks for Humanity in Healthcare Innovation
Goswami sees today’s tech trends, from AI to virtual care to digital health, as having the potential to bring humanity back to healthcare. But these new tools have to work for both patients and providers, bringing them face-to-face rather than shunting them onto different pathways.
How New Technologies Are Changing the ED
AI tools are pulling in data from the EHR and other sources, giving clinicians chart summaries and offering care suggestions, and helping stratify patient needs and plan the patient’s discharge or admittance.