The US Senate Special Committee on Aging will be holding hearings on this issue next week, with a focus on the public health and financial risks posed by falls among older Americans and the overall ...

The Pennsylvania Department of State and the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine have filed a lawsuit requesting a preliminary injunction against chatbot developer Character.AI. The company, formally ...

Greater transparency in ensuring that users clearly understand when they are interacting with an AI system rather than a human being. Chatbots should not present as a licensed clinician or a human ...

In the Chutes department…remember the scandal around healthcare ad trackers back in 2022? After multiple lawsuits, Congressional hearings, Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ...

Oracle is taking on $16 billion debt, this time largely funded by bond fund PIMCO. This funded a single data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan. Total financing announced in late April was $16 ...

Eric Topol, MD answers his own startling question, contrasting medical imaging with decision support for both clinicians and patients. His recent Substack ‘Ground Truths’ article (link below, free ...

One more funding. A competitor of Elon Musk’s Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience. closed their Series C at $102 million. This round was led by General Equity Holdings, with participation from firms ...

It took a year, but it’s approved. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK agency tasked with approving acquisitions, approved the acquisition of UK healthcare tech systems developer EMIS ...

Telehealth and Telecare Aware posts pointers to a broad range of news items. Authors of those items often use terms 'telecare' and telehealth' in inventive and idiosyncratic ways. Telecare Aware's ...

Done effectively done at the C-level, but not done in business yet. Last Thursday, Ruthia He, the founder/CEO, and David Brody, listed as the clinical president of Done Global (Done), were arrested in ...

A new sheriff at Veradigm? A stiffly written press release from Veradigm announced Big Changes to its board of directors–and an agreement with a major shareholder, Kent Lake PR LLC. The cooperation ...

Partnerships and add-ons are much in the news this week. Hims & Hers isn’t worrying about GLP-1 drug sourcing. Neither are Ro and LifeMD. All three made a deal with Novo Nordisk on providing branded ...