health privacy

AI chatbots have become the newest front door to health information, offering instant explanations of symptoms, medications, test results, nutrition, and mental wellbeing concerns—but the growing habit of treating conversational AI as a medical adviser is creating risks that are easy to miss...

A lawsuit filed by Florida pastor Scott Winters against OpenAI and chief executive Sam Altman has put a difficult question at the center of the AI industry’s health ambitions: when a chatbot responds with the confidence, personalization, and persistence of a trusted adviser, can a disclaimer...

Australian health officials have warned in 2026 that doctors’ rapidly growing use of AI scribes may be outpacing privacy, consent, and medical-device safeguards, after Guardian Australia obtained federal briefing documents raising concerns about opaque vendors, offshore data handling, and...

Microsoft’s March 12, 2026 preview of Copilot Health turns the company’s consumer-facing Copilot from a general productivity assistant into an expressly medical-facing workspace that promises to read your electronic health records, ingest continuous wearable telemetry, pull in lab results, and...