Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 12/15/25
A friend reached out this weekend to ask my opinion about the risks of plugging medical information into ChatGPT and other publicly available AI tools. She wanted to know if I agree with a…
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Tag: misinformation
Inlightened Report: 79% of Healthcare Experts Warn Social Media Misinformation Leads to Harmful Treatments
What You Should Know:
– A new survey from Inlightened reveals that 61% of vetted healthcare professionals are deeply concerned about the rise of online medical misinformation, with 79% warning that it leads patients to…
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Initiative launched for the safe use of agentic AI in health and care
Professor Hatim Abdulhussein, chief executive at Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex
An initiative called TrustX has been launched to help verify, deploy, and test agentic AI for use across the NHS and social care.
It…
WVU Medicine Launches Campaign Against Vaccine Hesitancy
Rising Vaccine Hesitancy Challenges
Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine has confronted a significant increase in parental vaccine hesitancy following the COVID-19 pandemic. This challenge became particularly acute in West Virginia, a state already grappling with substantial…
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AI Chatbots Easily Misled by False Medical Information, Mount Sinai Study Finds
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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Healthcare’s Phone Problem: How to Rebuild Consumer Trust in the Age of Scam Calls
Jonjie Sena is VP of Product Management at TransUnion
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is revolutionizing all types of businesses, including healthcare. With its ability to generate as well as analyze content, GenAI is helping providers…
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5 Startups from MaRS Health Impact 2025 & Real Talk on Medical Misinformation
Looking for real innovation in healthcare IT? In this video from the 2025 MaRS Health Impact event, Colin Hung spotlights five standout startups solving real-world problems in digital health and medical devices—and shares an…
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Search engines (SEs) have traditionally been primary tools for information seeking, but the new large language models (LLMs) are emerging as powerful alternatives, particularly for question-answering tasks. This study compares the performance of four…
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DigitalHealth.London Spotlight: Allie App – DigitalHealth.London
This week, we’re shining the DigitalHealth.London spotlight on Jo Doyle, Founder of Allie App. The company “exist to allieviate the fear, misinformation, confusion, frustration, uncertainty, and side effects that are a part of the…
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Medical large language models are susceptible to targeted misinformation attacks
Large language models (LLMs) have broad medical knowledge and can reason about medical information across many domains, holding promising potential for diverse medical applications in the near future. In this study, we demonstrate a…
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