A New Jersey Hospital Network Just Became the First in the US Certified for ‘Responsible’ AI Use
On July 29, 2026, Hackensack Meridian Health announced it had become the first health system in the country to earn...
Month: August 2026
Five More States Move to Ban AI Chatbots From Acting as Therapists
Colorado, Maine, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Vermont enacted laws in 2026 restricting artificial intelligence chatbots from providing therapy, joining Illinois...
FDA Backs Down on Whoop’s Blood Pressure Feature After a Year-Long Fight
The Food and Drug Administration has quietly dropped its enforcement action against Whoop, the maker of a screenless fitness wearable...
States Race to Put Humans Back in Charge of AI Health Insurance Decisions
Over the course of 2026, at least seven states have passed new laws restricting how health insurers can use artificial...
In Mongolia, AI Is Helping Catch a Preventable Cause of Infant Blindness in Seconds
In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the international eye-care nonprofit Orbis International and its technology partner Siloam Vision have begun what they describe...
An AI ‘Pharmacist Assistant’ Is Now Handling Refill Calls at a Major Health System
Foundation Health, a startup founded in 2023 by a co-founder of the digital pharmacy company Truepill, has spent 2026 expanding...
A Free AI Phone Line Now Chats With Lonely Seniors and Listens for Warning Signs
CareYaya Health Technologies has launched QuikTok, a free AI-powered phone companion aimed at older adults experiencing loneliness, built to work...
An AI Eye Scan in the Doctor’s Office Closed a Racial Gap in Diabetes Care, Study Finds
Researchers at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine published findings this year showing that an AI-assisted diagnostic tool...
Humana Is Putting AI Behind the Scenes of 80 Million Member Calls a Year
Health insurer Humana announced on February 3, 2026 that it had rolled out a new AI system called Agent Assist,...
This Autonomous Robot Now Scans Entire Vineyards for Disease, Not Just 10% of Them
A Portuguese robotics spin-off called ViField has begun expanding sales of an autonomous, electric field robot named Orioos that rolls...
