{"id":229423,"date":"2026-03-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/there-are-more-ai-health-tools-than-ever-but-how-well-do-they-work-mit-technology-review\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:00:00","slug":"there-are-more-ai-health-tools-than-ever-but-how-well-do-they-work-mit-technology-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/there-are-more-ai-health-tools-than-ever-but-how-well-do-they-work-mit-technology-review\/","title":{"rendered":"There are more AI health tools than ever\u2014but how well do they work? \u2013 MIT Technology Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/03\/30\/1134795\/there-are-more-ai-health-tools-than-ever-but-how-well-do-they-work\/amp\/\">There are more AI health tools than ever\u2014but how well do they work? \u2013 MIT Technology Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/03\/30\/1134795\/there-are-more-ai-health-tools-than-ever-but-how-well-do-they-work\/amp\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/03\/30\/1134795\/there-are-more-ai-health-tools-than-ever-but-how-well-do-they-work\/amp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-30 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.technologyreview.com\">www.technologyreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Copilot Health, a new space within its Copilot app where users will be able to connect their medical records and ask specific questions about their health. A couple of days earlier, Amazon had announced that Health AI, an LLM-based tool previously restricted to members of its One Medical service, would now be widely available. These products join the ranks of ChatGPT Health, which OpenAI released back in January, and Anthropic\u2019s Claude, which can access user health records if granted permission. Health AI for the masses is officially a trend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a clear demand for chatbots that provide health advice, given how hard it is for many people to access it through existing medical systems. And some research suggests that current LLMs are capable of making safe and useful recommendations. But researchers say that these tools should be more rigorously evaluated by independent experts, ideally before they are widely released.\u00a0\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In a high-stakes area like health, trusting companies to evaluate their own products could prove unwise, especially if those evaluations aren\u2019t made available for external expert review. And even if the companies are doing quality, rigorous research\u2014which some, including OpenAI, do seem to be\u2014they might still have blind spots that the broader research community could help to fill.\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<span>This story is only available to subscribers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t settle for half the story.<br \/>Get paywall-free access to technology news for the here and now.\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSubscribe now<br \/>\n\t\t<span>Already a subscriber?<br \/>\n\t\t\tSign in<br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the extent that you always are going to need more health care, I think we should definitely be chasing every route that works,\u201d says Andrew Bean, a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. \u201cIt\u2019s entirely plausible to me that these models have reached a point where they\u2019re actually worth rolling out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut,\u201d he adds, \u201cthe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/03\/30\/1134795\/there-are-more-ai-health-tools-than-ever-but-how-well-do-they-work\/amp\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more AI health tools than ever\u2014but how well do they work? \u2013 MIT&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-229423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-llm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}