AI in Healthcare
The latest on artificial intelligence transforming medicine
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Included Health’s new AI tool shows the next battleground is navigation, not novelty
Included Health has launched an AI-powered solution designed to connect members with providers, underscoring how care navigation is emerging as one of the most commercially important healthcare AI categories. The move reflects a broader shift toward tools that reduce fragmentation and guide patients to the right care faster.
Patients Are Learning to Ask Better Questions of AI — and Health Systems Want In
Time Magazine’s advice column on health chatbots and Vanderbilt’s new assistant for patients point to the same trend: the front door to healthcare is moving into conversation design. Patients are being coached to ask sharper, more useful questions, while health systems are building tools to help them do it. That shift could improve comprehension and engagement, but it also raises the stakes for how AI frames uncertainty and boundaries.
Included Health’s Hybrid AI-Clinician Model Highlights the Next Fight in Digital Care
Included Health is positioning its business around a hybrid model that combines AI with clinicians in digital care. The strategy reflects a broader market reality: in healthcare, pure automation is often less compelling than a system that knows when to hand off to a human.
When Patients Turn to AI After Medicine Runs Out of Answers
A New York Times report highlights patients using AI when conventional clinical pathways fail to deliver answers. The story matters not because AI replaces doctors, but because it exposes a widening gap between what patients need from the health system and what the system can reliably provide.
Amazon widens its generative AI health assistant as consumer expectations shift toward always-on digital triage
Amazon Health Services has expanded its generative AI assistant to all U.S. customers, signaling that consumer health platforms are moving from pilot projects to mass-market distribution. The rollout raises the bar for convenience, but also intensifies scrutiny over accuracy, escalation, and trust in AI-guided care navigation.
CVS Health’s New AI Engagement Platform Shows the Retail Health Endgame
CVS Health’s launch of an AI-powered engagement platform points to a bigger strategic play than chat interfaces alone. Retail healthcare companies are positioning AI as the coordination layer linking consumer outreach, benefits navigation, chronic care support, and pharmacy-touchpoint engagement.
One in Three Adults Now Turn to AI for Health Advice, Raising a New Patient-Safety Challenge
New polling cited by healthcare trade outlets suggests roughly one-third of adults are already using AI chatbots for health information or advice. That changes the center of gravity in healthcare AI: the immediate issue is no longer whether consumers will use these tools, but how health systems, regulators and clinicians respond to behavior that is already mainstream.
Guideway Care’s New AI Leadership Hire Signals Patient Activation Is Becoming an Enterprise AI Battleground
Guideway Care has appointed Farooq Anjum, PhD, as chief AI and systems officer to advance what it calls enterprise activation intelligence. The move suggests that AI competition is broadening from documentation and diagnostics into the harder problem of influencing patient behavior across fragmented care journeys.
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