Category «Medicine»

AI is speeding into healthcare. Who should regulate it

Harvard Gazette: “Medical ethicist details need to balance thoughtful limits while avoiding unnecessary hurdles as industry groups issue guidelines. AI is moving quickly into healthcare, bringing potential benefits but also possible pitfalls such as bias that drives unequal care and burnout of physicians and other healthcare workers. It remains undecided how it should be regulated …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches & ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to AI that makes things up

The Verge – no paywall: “Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According to the original report: In one case that experts described as “really …

Subjects: AI, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine, Search Engines

Long COVID and real-world economic and health data

Via LinkedIn – Augie (August) Ray: “I periodically post about the ongoing risks of COVID19 that most are ignoring. The world changed in 2020 and didn’t go back to “normal.” Over time, repeated COVID infections are affecting the health of more people. We know this not just from the thousands of research studies published on …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Wants Access to Your Medical Records

Gizmodo: “ChatGPT users who have been utilizing the chatbot for (often dubious) health advice will now have a chatbot specialized just for that. On Wednesday, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, a health-specific segment of the popular AI chatbot with the ability to connect to medical records, wellness apps, and wearables. “ChatGPT can help you understand recent …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Medicine

Here is the Agreement Giving ICE Medicaid Patients’ Data

404 Media: “A data sharing agreement between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which was designed for ICE to receive the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients, was published as part of a lawsuit earlier this year, with the public now able to see …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine, Privacy

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 6

Via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 6 – As we approach January 20, 2026, the one year mark of the second Trump administration, Americans are witnessing the exercise of vast, often illegal and unconstrained presidential powers, unprecedented in our history. The impact of …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, Courts, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 4, 2026

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 4, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Medicine, Privacy, Search Engines

U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.

Rocked by pandemic politics, the nation’s shield against infectious disease is shrinking. Washington Post – sub reqd.  “Vaccination rates among kindergarten students have plunged across broad swaths of the United States since before the pandemic, exposing children and families to increasing health risks as many school districts pull back from their traditional role as a …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

The Private Equity Firms That Gobble Up Hospitals and Spit Them Out

The New Republic: “Looking to turn a quick profit, the firms buy medical facilities and then unload them just a few years later, often leaving devastation in their wake…For roughly the past 20 years, private equity firms have been on a buying spree of health care businesses, like hospitals, surgical centers, physician practices, nursing homes, …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine