healthcare

Sharpen your pencils and shine your stethoscopes: If you’re looking for the drivers of the resilient labor market, they might be behind a desk at your local school or staffing your local hospital.They were largely responsible for a June jobs report that came in hotter than expected, with the country…

Until recently, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical-technology companies have focused the bulk of their AI investments on clinical uses. AI has been employed to help diagnose breast cancer, identify potential patients for clinical trials, and accelerate the processes used to determine whether a device or a new drug has the potential…

Voice assistants are becoming a bigger part of our daily lives, and hype from frontier labs like OpenAI has sparked debate about whether talking chatbots might actually be a substitute for real human connections.But in many health and social care contexts, voice AI is less about replacing human-human connections and…