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Sep 16, 2024

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Is AI Threatening Health Care Jobs? Or Just Changing Them?

Are AI-based chatbots coming for your health care job? As with any new technology, fears over potential unintended consequences of AI abound, but haven't been realized—for now.

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Mar 7, 2024

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Your Body, but Not Your Data

The public needs rigorous and thorough health research, but individual patients should have rights over their medical information. Today they have very little.

Commentary

Dec 27, 2022

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Digital Health Products Miss a Massive and Crucial Piece of a Person's Health

Our health is heavily influenced by our surroundings—including the health of the people around us. For digital health companies to credibly claim to improve people's health, their next step could be an increased willingness to look beyond an individualized notion of health and to work with public health agencies.

Commentary

Oct 24, 2022

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Privacy Rights Have Changed. Will Data Handling Follow?

Until privacy protection laws are cemented into place, consumer privacy won't be assured unless consumers can effectively take the steps they need to take to protect their data. Tech companies might view this as a burden, but there will likely be profits for those companies that instead see it as an opportunity.

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Aug 19, 2022

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Telemedicine Abortion? It's Not as Easy as It Sounds

The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has providers and health advocates strategizing about how to provide more abortions where it is still legal. Expanding virtual medical visits is one popular idea. Policymakers and clinics could take steps to make telemedicine better understood, easier to use, and more equitable.

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Jun 10, 2022

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When IT Meets Medical Innovation: Regulatory and Policy Challenges for Software as a Medical Device

The demand for using software to improve health care, including software as a medical device (SaMD), is on the rise. Realizing the potential benefits of the growing demand for SaMD may require clearer and more-consistent regulation of patient safety and medical effectiveness.

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