Staffing at health care providers, especially for IT, is being challenged on many fronts. Inflation is up while Medicaid has been significantly cut. New technologies such as AI call for new types of staffing…
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Background: Mental health concerns are prevalent among university students, with financial stress further compounding these issues. While cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective for these conditions, its delivery through artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots represents a…
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Professor Kamila Hawthorne, chair of the Royal College of GPs (Credit: Grainge Photography)
A study has suggested that AI should be used to support the delivery of primary care, after chatbots outperformed GPs based…
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OpenAI has announced changes to the way that ChatGPT interacts with users, following fears about the impact of AI chatbots on mental health.
Researchers have raised concerns that increasing numbers of people are using AI…
What You Should Know:
– A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reveals that leading AI chatbots are highly susceptible to repeating and even elaborating on false medical information.
– However,…
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Are chatbots making clinicians lazy, or convincing us to place too much confidence in their diagnostic prowess?
By Paul Cerrato, MA, senior research analyst and communications specialist and John Halamka, M.D., Diercks President, Mayo Clinic…
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Government entities overseeing medication access in New Zealand have been planning their adoption of AI assistants and tools to speed up processes and support decision-making.The New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority (Medsafe)…
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Chris Ingersoll, Healthcare Solutions Architect, SoundHound AI
As buzz around conversational AI reached a fever pitch last year, a new term began gaining traction: “AI agents.”
Over the past twelve months, Google searches for AI…
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Background: Empowered by the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, chatbots have been increasingly used for the promotion of health-related behaviors to address the high demand for human resources in conventional behavioral interventions. However,…
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Artificial intelligence chatbots can draft empathetic responses to cancer questions, but how patients perceive chatbot empathy remains unclear. Here, we found that people with cancer rated chatbot responses as more empathetic than physician responses….
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