Athenahealth is opening up patient health records to outside AI assistants, starting with Anthropic’s Claude, through a new MCP connection designed to give patients personalized answers based on their clinical data.
In a new issue brief, the AMA assigns physicians, AI developers and healthcare organizations distinct responsibilities regarding clinical AI, arguing that protecting patients requires all stakeholders to be accountable for their part in the AI ecosystem.
The health policy think tank urged seniors to shop carefully for prescription drug coverage during Medicare open enrollment, given skyrocketing premiums and wide variance in costs between plans.
“The next phase of AI adoption will be defined less by access to models and more by the quality of the information those models can use,” said Dun & Bradstreet’s Gary Kotovets.