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7 Pieces of Wellness Tech That Could Be Covered by Your HSA

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 00:25:00

A health savings account or flexible savings account can help you pay for qualified medical costs, but that doesn't just mean doctors' visits or medications. "They're also a powerful way to pay for a huge range of modern wellness technology and products," said Chris Byrd, senior vice president at WEX, a global commerce platform that administers HSAs and FSAs. According to Byrd, recent research from WEX and Visa found that having the flexibility to use HSA funds on qualified expenses was one of

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Adapting to new threats with proactive risk management

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2025-10-06 07:00:00

Unplanned downtime poses a major challenge for organizations, and is estimated to cost Global 2000 companies on average $200 million per year. Beyond the financial impact, it can also erode customer trust and loyalty, decrease productivity, and even result in legal or privacy issues. A 2024 ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the medical-billing subsidiary of industry giant UnitedHealth Group—the biggest health and medical data breach in US history—exposed the data of around 190 million peo

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A Single Typo in Your Medical Records Can Make Your AI Doctor Go Dangerously Haywire

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-20 10:00:37

A single typo, formatting error, or slang word makes an AI more likely to tell a patient they're not sick or don't need to seek medical care. That's what MIT researchers found in a June study currently awaiting peer review, which we covered previously. Even the presence of colorful or emotional language, they discovered, was enough to throw off the AI's medical advice. Now, in a new interview with the Boston Globe, study coauthor Marzyeh Ghassemi is warning about the serious harm this could ca

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RFK Jr’s plan to improve America’s diet is missing the point

technologyreview.com Jessica Hamzelou 2025-10-22 08:00:00

“I’m working with Linda on forcing medical schools … to put nutrition into medical school education,” Kennedy said during a cabinet meeting on August 26. The next day, HHS released a statement calling for “increased nutrition education” for medical students. “We can reverse the chronic-disease epidemic simply by changing our diets and lifestyles,” Kennedy said in an accompanying video statement. “But to do that, we need nutrition to be a basic part of every doctor’s training.” It certainly sou

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Computing’s Top 30: Mohamed Shehata

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2025-10-24 15:00:24

Among AI’s great promises in relation to medicine is its potential to use existing patient data—including MRIs—to identify and diagnose potential problems. Doing so has many potential benefits, including lower costs and fewer invasive patient procedures. Among the researchers making good on this promising AI potential is Mohamed Shehata. Shehata is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Louisville. He’s won numerous awards for his work using machine lear

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The New ‘Toxic Avenger’ Is Helping Avenge Real-World Health Care Debt

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-25 23:30:11

The new Toxic Avenger finally hits theaters this week after a few years’ delay, and while audiences are in for a wild ride with the movie’s hilariously gross tale of mutation and redemption, the movie does also tackle more serious themes. A big moment comes early on when Peter Dinklage’s character—Winston Gooze, before he becomes Toxie—learns his expensive health insurance won’t cover his life-or-death medical treatment. Now, the film is applying some real-world activism to that unfortunately re

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The Top Diseases We Choose to Stay Ignorant About, According to Scientists

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-26 23:55:15

The old adage “ignorance is bliss” feels especially fitting when it comes to healthcare. In fact, new research reveals that one in three people avoids—or is likely to avoid—medical information. In a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine earlier this month, researchers investigated data from 92 studies involving 564,497 participants from 25 countries. Despite the fact that successful treatment often depends on early detection, their results indicate that many people are reluctant

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Something Extremely Scary Happens When Advanced AI Tries to Give Medical Advice to Real World Patients

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-30 05:27:39

Image by Getty / Futurism Developments Last week, Google AI pioneer Jad Tarifi sparked controversy when he told Business Insider that it no longer makes sense to get a medical degree — since, in his telling, artificial intelligence will render such an education obsolete by the time you're a practicing doctor. Companies have long touted the tech as a way to free up the time of overworked doctors and even aid them in specialized skills, including scanning medical imagery for tumors. Hospitals ha

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Founder of Google's Generative AI Team Says Don't Even Bother Getting a Law or Medical Degree, Because AI's Going to Destroy Both Those Careers Before You Can Even Graduate

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-06 21:13:58

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence at Google is warning the potential doctors and lawyers of tomorrow that AI might steal their futures. In an interview with Business Insider, Jad Tarifi — the 42-year-old founder of Google's first generative AI team who left in 2021 to found his own startup, Integral AI — suggested that ever-improving AI capabilities may soon make getting advanced degrees in law or medicine an exercise in futility. With so many people seeking further education as t

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Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

news.ycombinator.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-11-09 15:30:57

As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal health data to qualify. For some patients in Ohio who use medical weed, a recent data exposure could impact their sensitive information. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database in mid-July that appeare

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Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-11-10 02:15:29

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children. As of late last month, the investigation—led by US senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia—had unearthed 41 cases of physical and sexual abuse; 14 involving pregnant detainees and 18 involving children. The accounts of abuse span facilities in 25 states and include Pu

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Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-11-10 06:14:22

As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal health data to qualify. For some patients in Ohio who use medical weed, a recent data exposure could impact their sensitive information. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database in mid-July that appeare

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NY Business Council discloses data breach affecting 47,000 people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-11 02:04:08

The Business Council of New York State (BCNYS) has revealed that attackers who breached its network in February stole the personal, financial, and health information of over 47,000 individuals. As the state's largest statewide employer association, BCNYS represents over 3,000 member organizations, including chambers of commerce, professional and trade associations, and other local and regional business organizations, as well as some of the largest corporations worldwide, which employ more than

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Patients trust AI's medical advice over doctors - even when it's wrong, study finds

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-13 11:33:00

TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Science Photo Library via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways People can't tell AI-generated from doctor responses. However, people trust AI responses more than those from doctors. Integrating AI into clinical practice must be a nuanced approach. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. There's a crisis due to a lack of doctors in the US. In the October issue of the prestigious New England J

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Blood pressures rise as the FDA cracks down on this wearable’s flagship feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-16 12:32:47

WHOOP TL;DR The FDA has scrutinized Whoop for a new wellness monitoring feature that has not been certified. The FDA considers the Whoop MG (Medical Grade) a medical device and should remove the Blood Pressure Insights feature until approved. Whoop claims the product is not for medical use and will not disable the feature. Wellness wearable maker Whoop, specifically one of its latest fitness bands, has drawn the ire of the FDA after it debuted a feature not approved or certified by the autho

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Some doctors got worse at detecting cancer after relying on AI

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-21 05:48:13

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. We’ve heard about upskilling and re-skilling due to AI — but how about de-skilling? A new study published this week found that doctors who frequently use AI to detect cancer in one medical procedure got significantly worse at doing so. The

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What you may have missed about GPT-5

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-11-23 10:52:23

With the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI has begun explicitly telling people to use its models for health advice. At the launch event, Altman welcomed on stage Felipe Millon, an OpenAI employee, and his wife, Carolina Millon, who had recently been diagnosed with multiple forms of cancer. Carolina spoke about asking ChatGPT for help with her diagnoses, saying that she had uploaded copies of her biopsy results to ChatGPT to translate medical jargon and asked the AI for help making decisions about things l

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AI summaries can downplay medical issues for female patients, UK research finds

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-25 15:29:44

The latest example of bias permeating artificial intelligence comes from the medical field. A new study surveyed real case notes from 617 adult social care workers in the UK and found that when large language models summarized the notes, they were more likely to omit language such as "disabled," "unable" or "complex" when the patient was tagged as female, which could lead to women receiving insufficient or inaccurate medical care. Research led by the London School of Economics and Political Sci

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NASA and Google are building an AI medical assistant to keep Mars-bound astronauts healthy

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-28 15:17:35

As human-spaceflight missions grow longer and travel farther from Earth, keeping crews healthy gets more challenging. Astronauts on the International Space Station can depend on real-time calls to Houston, regular cargo deliveries of medicines, and a quick ride home after six months. All of that may soon change as NASA and its commercial partners, like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, look to conduct longer-duration missions that would take humans to the Moon and Mars. That looming reality is pushing NASA

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Doximity buys Pathway Medical for $63 million to help doctors get AI-powered answers

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-11-30 20:38:49

Doximity at the New York Stock Exchange for its initial public offering on June 24, 2021. Doximity is diving deeper into artificial intelligence, announcing on Thursday the acquisition of startup Pathway Medical for $63 million. Pathway has built an AI-powered clinical reference tool that doctors can use to ask questions about guidelines, drugs and trials. Pathway's answers are synthesized from medical literature, and Doximity said the Montreal-based startup has one of the largest structured d

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Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-12-10 04:00:00

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Scenario: A radiologist is looking at your brain scan and flags an abnormality in the basal ganglia. It’s an area of the brain that helps you with motor control, learning, and emotional processing. The name sounds a bit like another part of

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EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office

news.ycombinator.com Robert N. Charette 2025-12-10 12:07:44

Cheryl Conrad no longer seethes with the frustration that threatened to overwhelm her in 2006. As described in IEEE Spectrum, Cheryl’s husband, Tom, has a rare genetic disease that causes ammonia to accumulate in his blood. At an emergency room visit two decades ago, Cheryl told the doctors Tom needed an immediate dose of lactulose to avoid going into a coma, but they refused to medicate him until his primary doctor confirmed his medical condition hours later. Making the situation more vexing w

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Sharing health data can be a nightmare, but we have questions about this US govt plan

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-15 08:24:15

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR The US government has proposed a new nationwide system for easy access and sharing of digital medical records. The system involves more than 60 tech companies uniting to create a central system that can be used by healthcare and mediclaim providers. It involves using AI chatbots to help patients note their symptoms and receive help for chronic illnesses such as obesity and diabetes. The US government is looking to change how US citizens store and shar

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Trump administration's digital health tracking system gives tech giants access to medical records

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-12-16 11:15:00

Forward-looking: The Trump administration wants the US public to upload personal health data and medical records to a series of apps and systems managed by private health companies and tech giants. The move is supposed to allow easier access to health records across the nation, bringing personal healthcare into the digital age, but there are plenty of concerns about the security of the data and the possibility that it could be exploited. During an event announcing the initiative yesterday, Pres

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AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2026-01-07 08:45:00

“Then one day this year,” Sharma says, “there was no disclaimer.” Curious to learn more, she tested generations of models introduced as far back as 2022 by OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, and xAI—15 in all—on how they answered 500 health questions, such as which drugs are okay to combine, and how they analyzed 1,500 medical images, like chest x-rays that could indicate pneumonia. The results, posted in a paper on arXiv and not yet peer-reviewed, came as a shock—fewer than 1% of outputs fro

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Rejoy Health (YC W21) Is Hiring

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-12 05:00:26

About Us Rejoy Health provides an AI-powered medical search platform designed for clinicians, enabling them to ask complex medical questions and receive accurate, evidence-based answers with cited sources. Job Description As a Software Engineer at Rejoy, you'll work on: Building and scaling backend systems for our AI medical search engine Developing APIs and services that power clinician-facing web app Collaborating with ML engineers to integrate NLP/LLM models into production Designing p

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Trump-Appointed Judge Kills Rule to Remove All Medical Debt From Credit Reports

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-14 10:55:36

Yet another Biden-era reform intended to make life easier for some Americans has been quashed. Late last week, a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down a rule issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have removed all medical debt from being included in people’s credit reports. Judge Sean Jordan of the U.S. District Court of Texas’ Eastern District issued the decision Friday, declaring that the CFPB’s rule surpassed the limits of its authority. The agency previously state

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Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-27 05:20:08

Biomni: A General-Purpose Biomedical AI Agent Overview Biomni is a general-purpose biomedical AI agent designed to autonomously execute a wide range of research tasks across diverse biomedical subfields. By integrating cutting-edge large language model (LLM) reasoning with retrieval-augmented planning and code-based execution, Biomni helps scientists dramatically enhance research productivity and generate testable hypotheses. Quick Start Installation Our software environment is massive and

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AI Does Something Subtly Bizarre If You Make Typos While Talking to It

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-30 05:10:38

New research suggests that medical AI chatbots are woefully unreliable at understanding how people actually communicate their health problems. As detailed in yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study presented last month by MIT researchers, an AI chatbot is more likely to advise a patient not to seek medical care if their messages contained typos. The errors AI is susceptible to can be as seemingly inconsequential as an extra space between words, or if the patient used slang or colorful language. And strik

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Metriport (YC S22) is hiring engineers to improve healthcare data exchange

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-03 06:00:02

Metriport helps healthcare organizations access, analyze, and exchange patient data in real-time. Our open-source data intelligence platform integrates with all major healthcare IT systems in the US, and taps into comprehensive medical data for 300M+ individuals. Concretely, check out the following resources to learn more about what we actually do: We are looking for passionate engineers that are motivated by working on problems at scale (think billions of queries and PBs of medical records).

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