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 If a therapy bot walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it is a medically regulated duck
npj Digital Medicine - (Friday December 5, 2025) Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for mental health interactions, often mimicking therapeutic behaviour without regulatory oversight. Documented harms, including suicides, highlight the urgent need for stronger safeguards. This manuscript argues that LLMs…  Beryl Institute Report Debunks 5 Physician Myths, Proving Patient Experience Drives Clinical Outcomes and Safety
HIT Consultant - (Friday December 5, 2025) What You Should Know: – The Beryl Institute’s new paper, From Myths to Truths: Reframing Physician Perceptions of Patient Experience, identifies and refutes five common misconceptions held by physicians regarding patient experience, moving the conversation… |
 VHC Health Answers Demand: Seamless Virtual Urgent Care Launches in D.C. Metro Area
HIT Consultant - (Friday December 5, 2025) What You Should Know: –VHC Health, a community-based health system providing medical services to the Washington, DC metropolitan area, is proud to expand telehealth services through a strategic partnership with HealthTap, a tech-enabled virtual physician…  AstraZeneca Selects Salesforce Agentforce Life Sciences to Deploy AI-Powered Global Customer Engagement
HIT Consultant - (Friday December 5, 2025) What You Should Know: – Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the world’s #1 CRM, today announced that AstraZeneca (LSE/STO/Nasdaq: AZN), a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company, has selected Agentforce Life Sciences for Customer Engagement to help transform its customer engagement… |
 Hospitals to shift from clinical to back-office AI applications
MobiHealthNews - (Friday December 5, 2025) Hospitals to shift from clinical to back-office AI applications | MobiHealthNews Skip to main content…  Beyond Stereotypes: 3 Ways Empathetic Outreach Can Drive Medicaid Member Engagement and Retention Post-OBBA
HIT Consultant - (Friday December 5, 2025) Rhonda Aubrey, MHI, Co-Founder and Vice President of Programs at Beheld Connecting with Medicaid members has never been so challenging—or so crucial—as the system faces great uncertainty in light of the recently passed One Big… |
 How AI will power change in RTLS in 2026
Healthcare IT news - (Friday December 5, 2025) How AI will power change in RTLS in 2026 | Healthcare IT News Skip to main content…  Evolve or Be Left Behind: The Quiet Reckoning for Health Insurance Agencies
HIT Consultant - (Friday December 5, 2025) Travis Conley, Chief Technology Officer of Heathos The health insurance sector is facing a quiet but urgent reckoning: modernize or risk falling behind. While much of the industry’s attention has focused on consumer-facing innovations, like… |
 AI-guided mental health tool piloted at GP surgeries
Digital Health - (Friday December 5, 2025) Taha Ouertani, chief executive and founder of MindBay. (Credit: MindBay) An AI-guided digital cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) tool to help manage mild to moderate mental health problems is being piloted in GP surgeries.  RSNA25: So Much Innovation, but One Theme Dominated
Healthcare IT Today - (Friday December 5, 2025)  Every booth at RSNA25 had something new—but the real story was what they all had in common. After three days on the floor, one theme kept surfacing no matter which vendor I spoke with.In… |
