The Lab · 2026-04-03 12:26:48 · The Verge
Utah has become the second state in the nation to grant an artificial intelligence system the authority to prescribe psychiatric medications, launching a one-year pilot that bypasses direct physician oversight. The move, announced last week, delegates clinical authority to a chatbot developed by San Francisco startup L...
The Lab · 2026-04-14 22:22:23 · Ars Technica
American patients are increasingly bypassing traditional channels, turning directly to large language models like ChatGPT for preliminary health advice. In response, major US health systems are rapidly developing and deploying their own branded AI chatbots. This strategic pivot aims to capture this growing user behavio...
The Lab · 2026-04-24 18:24:06 · STAT News
The Utah Medical Licensing Board has called for the immediate suspension of the state's AI-powered prescription renewal experiment, raising sharp questions about regulatory oversight and patient safety in the emerging field of automated healthcare delivery.
In a letter published Friday, the board disclosed it learned ...
The Lab · 2026-05-13 01:18:21 · TechCrunch
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a payment model that creates, for the first time, a federal mechanism to reimburse AI agents performing continuous patient monitoring between clinical visits. The model, known as ACCESS (Advanced Community Care Coordination and Electronic Support Servic...
The Lab · 2026-05-13 03:18:18 · Techmeme Echo RSS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is piloting ACCESS, an outcome-based payment framework designed to reimburse AI-enabled medical services based on clinical results rather than traditional fee-for-service models. The initiative has drawn participation from 150 technology companies, marking the most concrete ...