Paul J. Lukac, M.D., from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and colleagues examined the impact of ambient AI scribes. Outpatient physicians (238), representing 14 specialties, were randomly assigned (1:1:1) to either one of two AI scribe applications — Microsoft Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Copilot or Nabla — or a usual-care control group. Change from baseline log writing time-in-note was the primary outcome. Secondary outcomes included several survey instruments: Mini-Z 2.0 to assess burnout, work environment, work pace, and electronic health record (EHR) stress; physician task load (PTL) to assess cognitive load related to stress from EHR documentation; and Professional Fulfillment Index-Work…
Author: Rutali Thakur
Bloomberg Opinion highlights that major AI developers like OpenAI and Anthropic are aggressively targeting healthcare with tools such as ChatGPT Health and Claude for clinicians—but their efforts have a fatal flaw.
This rapid review explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is integrated into healthcare and examines the factors influencing trust between users and AI systems. By systematically identifying trust-related determinants, this review provides actionable insights to support effective AI adoption in clinical settings. A comprehensive search of MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), and CINAHL (Ebsco) using keywords related to AI, healthcare, and trust yielded 872 unique citations, of which 40 studies met the inclusion criteria after screening. Three core themes were identified. AI literacy highlights the importance of user understanding of AI inputs, processes, and outputs in fostering trust among patients and clinicians.…
Bloomberg Opinion highlights that major AI developers like OpenAI and Anthropic are aggressively targeting healthcare with tools such as ChatGPT Health and Claude for clinicians—but their efforts have a fatal flaw.
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 in the U.S. In September, the hospital-accrediting Joint Commission and the Coalition for Health AI issued recommendations for implementing artificial intelligence in medical care, with the burden for compliance falling largely on individual facilities. I. Glenn Cohen, faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, and colleagues suggested in the Journal of the American Medical Association that the guidelines are a good start, but changes to ease likely…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a transformative force reshaping health care delivery, including in clinical gastroenterology. However, its many benefits cannot be fully realized without also reconciling associated ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns to ensure its responsible use. Here, we present an overview of the core principles of responsible use of health care AI, including equity and fairness, patient autonomy, data privacy and security, accountability for AI-related patient harm, human agency, and regulation, using gastroenterology-relevant examples to highlight the benefits and risks of this powerful technology. We conclude with our predictions regarding the future legal and ethical impact of…
The models are part of Google’s Health AI Developer Foundations programme and are intended to help developers build, test, and scale healthcare applications. Google has launched MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR, two new healthcare-focused artificial intelligence models aimed at advancing medical image analysis and clinical speech-to-text capabilities, reinforcing the company’s expanding role in the rapidly growing digital health ecosystem. Google has expanded its healthcare AI portfolio, making both models openly available for research and commercial use through platforms such as Hugging Face and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. The models are part of Google’s Health AI Developer Foundations programme and are intended to…
Smart thermostats? They’re old news. Smart TVs? Been there, done that. But smart toilets? That’s a level of home automation that few have been willing to breach. At this year’s CES show, however, a pair of tech companies are hoping people will make the smart potty their number one (and number two) priority. Some of those commodes are turning heads. The Vovo Smart Toilet was a 2026 Innovation honoree by the Consumer Technology Association, which cited its benefits for the elderly and people with disabilities. The toilet comes with a few bells and whistles that have already been incorporated into the high-end latrine…
Over 1,200 AI medical devices have FDA clearance, but most physicians don’t know which ones actually work. This chapter cuts through marketing hype to identify validated tools you can deploy today: diagnostic AI with prospective trial data, ambient scribes that save 1-2 hours daily, and specialty-specific applications backed by peer-reviewed evidence.
Three days after Qiu Sijun, a retired bricklayer in eastern China, went for a routine diabetes checkup, he received a call from a doctor he hadn’t met before. The doctor, the head of the hospital’s pancreatic department, wanted him to come in for a follow-up. “I knew it couldn’t be anything good,” Mr. Qiu, 57, recalled. He was partly right. The bad news was that Mr. Qiu had pancreatic cancer. But there was good news, too: The tumor had been detected early. The doctor, Zhu Kelei, was able to remove it. This was possible only because of a new artificial-intelligence-powered…