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.”
How to Prepare for Late-Season Flu Surges at Health Systems and Hospitals
On Feb. 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that flu activity was “elevated” across the country. The CDC estimates that since the current flu season began in October 2025 there have been at least 22,000,000 illnesses, 280,000 hospitalizations, and 12,000 deaths.
Update: How to Prepare for ICE Agents in Hospitals
In the wake of the killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who worked at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, it’s time for CNOs to take another look at their hospital policies regarding what to do when Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol agents interact with their staff.
How to Promote Patient Safety in the Outpatient Setting
The primary patient safety risks in the outpatient setting include data overload, medication interactions, and communication breakdowns with patients, according to the assistant CMO of a federally qualified health center in Indiana.
Focusing on the Misuse of AI Chatbots in Healthcare
While chatbots that rely on large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Grok produce human-like and confident-sounding responses to the users’ questions, they are not regulated as medical devices and are not validated for healthcare purposes.
Nursing Unions Are a Symptom. Here’s the Problem.
As patient acuity worsens and workplace violence incidents increase, so must the solutions for safe staffing, which in turn is made more difficult by nursing shortages. Issues in healthcare are cyclical, and there is no perfect place to begin.
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.
Withdrawal From WHO Raises New Questions for U.S. Healthcare Strategy
The United States has formally begun its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, ending nearly 80 years of membership and reshaping its role in global health governance. While the move is rooted in political and financial critiques, healthcare leaders are now assessing what reduced engagement with the WHO could mean for pandemic preparedness, data sharing, and global health security.
Dangerous AI Chatbots Top ECRI’s 2026 List of Tech Hazards
The growing use of AI chatbots for dispensing medical advice is raising red flags in the healthcare industry. Simply put, you don’t know where that data has been. That’s why misuse of AI chatbots in healthcare has secured the top spot in ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards of 2026.
Automation Complacency: Avoiding the Pitfalls of AI Integration
As AI tools become more and more embedded in routine workflows, there is a psychological dimension to the human-machine interaction that becomes a patient safety issue, not a technological one.