Accelerating medicine’s AI race, Google is releasing a version of its generative language model to healthcare customers who will begin testing its ability to perform specific tasks in medical and research settings.
With maturation of digital diagnostics and therapeutics as well as a new generation of evidence-based psychotherapies delivered by digital platforms, both the public and developers would benefit from a process that separates useful products from the digital equivalent of snake oil.
On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration issued a Class I recall for certain Philips CPAP and BiPAP respirators that were refurbished in an earlier recall, the latest in a string of troubles for the medical device giant.
iPhones were still 11 years away when Congress passed HIPAA. But it hasn't been substantially modified since, and the bewildering pace of technological change has left vast amounts of sensitive data outside the scope of the law, threatening basic consumer privacy.