Florida-based telehealth provider MDLive is now incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into its virtual healthcare services with its new interactive chatbot named “Sophie,” according to a report by the Sun Sentinel.

As technology continues to disrupt the healthcare space and advance care, doctors are increasingly seeing issues with more screen time and less face time with patients, according to Atul Gawande, the CEO of Amazon’s healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase.

Medicare Advantage plans were allowed new flexibilities in 2019, but only a small number of plans will offer the additional supplemental benefits, according to AARP.

Researchers are hopeful a newly-developed machine-learning algorithm can be used to improve the detection of benign polyps during colonoscopies following a recent study validating the method.

Approximately 72,000 people died in the U.S. last year as a result of an opioid overdose. While Americans and lawmakers both agree that more needs to be done to improve the opioid abuse epidemic, the FDA approved yet another potent opioid on Nov. 2.

A deep learning technique was able to detect glaucoma with more accuracy than traditional approaches, according to a recent study conducted by IBM and New York University scientists.

Medical education, after years of sticking to a tried-and-true formula of lectures, exams and rotations, is racing to catch up with technological innovations that are reshaping the way we train nurses and doctors in the U.S., the New York Times reported Oct. 31. Virtual reality (VR) and high-fidelity simulations are leading the charge.

Hospitals are becoming healthier places for patients, as healthcare-associated infections among hospital patients are declining, according to a recent CDC survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine.