Artificial Intelligence

AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care

December 1, 2025 / Artificial Intelligence, Patient education / InnovateMed Author / health insurers

by Anna Claire Vollers edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bills. Several businesses and nonprofits have launched AI-powered tools to help patients […]

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AI Too Risky: Major Insurers Refuse Coverage

November 25, 2025 / Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Practice / InnovateMed Author / coverage

Companies racing to deploy artificial intelligence now face an unexpected obstacle: the insurance industry won’t touch it. AI too risky to insure – artistic impression. Image credit: Alius Noreika / AI Major carriers like AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are petitioning U.S. regulators to exclude AI-related liabilities from their corporate coverage, according to the Financial

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AI’s double-edged impact on neurological care: A tool for innovation or a source of bias?

November 21, 2025 / Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Practice, Neurology / InnovateMed Author

by University of California, Los Angeles edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors’ notes Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As artificial intelligence’s role in health care rapidly expands, a comprehensive new report co-authored by UCLA Health states that the same technology that can help doctors detect strokes or seizures could also worsen health disparities unless proper safeguards

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AI can help cancer patients better understand CT reports

November 21, 2025 / Artificial Intelligence, Cancer, Clinical Practice / InnovateMed Author / CT reports

by Paul Hellmich, Technical University Munich edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors’ notes Credit: CC0 Public Domain Medical reports written in technical terminology can pose challenges for patients. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has investigated how artificial intelligence can make CT findings easier to understand. In the study, reading time decreased,

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AI psychosis risk: LLMs fail to challenge delusions, experts warn

November 20, 2025 / Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Practice / InnovateMed Author / AI psychosis risk, LLMs

by JMIR Publications edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors’ notes Credit: Ivan S from Pexels An article, “Shoggoths, Sycophancy, Psychosis, Oh My: Rethinking Large Language Model Use and Safety,” explores how features like AI sycophancy may amplify delusional beliefs and contribute to user harm, a phenomenon often referred to as “AI psychosis.” The paper

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Large health systems turn to K Health’s AI

November 20, 2025 / Artificial Intelligence, News update / InnovateMed Author

from STAT: virtual care Large health systems turn to K Health’s AI Over the last two years, K Health has partnered with five large health systems — Cedars-Sinai, Mayo Clinic, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hartford HealthCare, and Mass General Brigham — to launch round-the-clock virtual primary care platforms enabled by its AI. Today, it announced another partnership with Northwell Health, New York’s largest health system,

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AI tool spots blood cell abnormalities missed by doctors

November 20, 2025 / Artificial Intelligence, Research update / InnovateMed Author / blood cell abnormalities

University of Cambridge image: Different types of blood cells analysed by CytoDiffusion, a generative AI tool used to detect abnormalities in blood samples. view more Credit: Simon Deltadahl An AI tool that can analyse abnormalities in the shape and form of blood cells, and with greater accuracy and reliability than human experts, could change the way

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Researchers diagnose disease with a drop of blood, a microscope and AI

November 20, 2025 / Artificial Intelligence, Research update / InnovateMed Author / microscope and AI

UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO IMAGE: SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVELOPED AN INNOVATIVE DIAGNOSTIC TECHNOLOGY THAT ANALYZES THE FULL DRYING PROCESS OF A BLOOD DROPLET USING MACHINE LEARNING. THE PROCESS COULD TRANSFORM MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCREENING, ALLOWING RAPID ANALYSIS OF BLOOD AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS USING ONLY A SINGLE DROPLET AND SIMPLE MICROSCOPIC IMAGING, AND BRING COST-EFFICIENT, POWERFUL DIAGNOSTICS

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Teeny robots could deliver drugs to specific spots

November 20, 2025 / Artificial Intelligence, Research update / InnovateMed Author / Teeny robots

November 17th, 2025 Posted by ETH Zurich This is how small the latest microrobot is. (Credit: Luca Donati/ETH Zurich) Share this Article Facebook Twitter Reddit Email You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Tags drug delivery robots University ETH Zurich Researchers have developed a microrobot capable of transporting drugs to

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Health insurer Oscar unveiled its new artificial intelligence chatbot, Oswell, last week.

October 28, 2025 / Artificial Intelligence, News update / InnovateMed Author / Chatbot

Health insurer Oscar unveiled its new artificial intelligence chatbot, Oswell, last week. The bot is available to Oscar’s doctors, who can use it to take notes and retrieve patient data, and its members, who can access on-demand support. Oscar Health started experimenting with using member-facing artificial intelligence agents in August, when it launched its “superagent,” which

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