Telehealth and Telecare Aware

Character.AI sued by Pennsylvania on its chatbots posing as licensed physicians and psychiatrists

The Pennsylvania Department of State and the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine have filed a lawsuit requesting a preliminary injunction against chatbot developer Character.AI. The company, formally ...
Telehealth and Telecare Aware

News roundup: Amwell narrows Q1 and full year losses, AMA urges Congress for guardrails on mental health chatbots, hospital at home study finds lower ED visits and lower ...

Greater transparency in ensuring that users clearly understand when they are interacting with an AI system rather than a human being. Chatbots should not present as a licensed clinician or a human ...
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Oracle steps back from the AI debt brink with $16.3B financing for MI data center, the Project Jupiter ‘clean energy’ experiment in NM, and a major Federal DOW contract

Oracle is taking on $16 billion debt, this time largely funded by bond fund PIMCO. This funded a single data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan. Total financing announced in late April was $16 ...
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Chutes & Ladders: Ad trackers still on healthcare websites after lawsuits, FTC; the US Navy adds WHOOPs it up and expands Talkspace; HealthVerity to buy Symphony Health ...

In the Chutes department…remember the scandal around healthcare ad trackers back in 2022? After multiple lawsuits, Congressional hearings, Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ...
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Is the health tech business neglecting validated deep learning medical AI models versus less proven LLMs and generative AI?

Eric Topol, MD answers his own startling question, contrasting medical imaging with decision support for both clinicians and patients. His recent Substack ‘Ground Truths’ article (link below, free ...