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Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Health for Sunday, May 10th, 2026. I'm Chris Novak, AI Health Tech Correspondent at Pivot Media. • And I'm Maya Johnson, AI Healthcare Editor. Today we're looking at two stories that, taken together, mark a real inflection point for AI accountabilit... • Right. The first is out of Pennsylvania, where Attorney General Dave Su...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering medical chatbots giving dangerous advice, OpenAI's push into radiology, and the battle over AI clinical documentation. • Let's start with those chatbots. Chris, this is alarming—multiple studies now show consumer AI chatbots are wrong about medical advice roughly half th... • Yeah, and here's what's wild—one in four Amer...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're talking AI diagnostic accuracy versus clinical reality, and the global spread of AI prescribing systems. • Chris, I'm seeing something fascinating and honestly concerning. We've got this woman who used ChatGPT to diagnose herself with a rare disorder that d... • Yeah, this is the paradox we're living in. The tech is simultaneousl...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering the massive UK Biobank breach, the AI insurance battle heating up, and why the AMA wants Congress to step in on health chatbots. • Alright, Chris, let's start with this UK Biobank situation. This is honestly terrifying—half a million people's genetic and health data just showed up... • Yeah, and what makes this particula...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering the AI trust paradox in healthcare, UnitedHealth's massive AI investment, and Dell's billion-dollar AI-native hospital. • Let's start with something that's been keeping me up at night. We've got new data showing doctors and patients are rushing to embrace AI chatbots, eve... • Yeah, the numbers are striking. A majority o...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're looking at the latest developments in AI health tech, from breakthrough diagnostics to digital therapeutics transforming patient care. • We've got some fascinating updates on how AI is reshaping everything from drug discovery to mental health treatment. The pace of change is honestly st... • Let's start with what I think is the b...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're looking at the healthcare AI revolution that's accelerating faster than anyone predicted. • We've got some fascinating developments to unpack, from AI diagnostics beating specialists to breakthrough drug discoveries. • Let's start with what I think is the biggest story this week. Google's Med-PaLM 3 just achieved something remark...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering Harvard's groundbreaking AI triage trial, Aidoc's massive funding round, and a new framework for licensing autonomous AI. • So Chris, this Harvard study is getting massive attention. An AI system just beat emergency room doctors at triage diagnoses. That's... honestly kind ... • Yeah, this is huge. We're talking about em...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're diving into groundbreaking AI developments in healthcare, from diagnostic breakthroughs to revolutionary treatment approaches. • We'll explore how these innovations are transforming patient care and what they mean for the future of medicine. • So let's start with something that's been making waves in the AI diagnostics space. A n...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering a major baby formula recall hitting US shelves, Oregon's crackdown on health sharing plans, and a fascinating AI breakthrough in ... • Starting with that formula recall — this is every parent's nightmare. New Zealand's a2 Milk Company just recalled multiple batches of infant formula s... • Yeah, and what's striking here...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Health for Friday, May 8th, 2026. I'm Chris Novak, AI Health Tech Correspondent at Pivot Media. • And I'm Maya Johnson, AI Healthcare Editor. Today we're looking at conversational symptom triage at consumer scale, a clever fix for clinician trust i... • Let's start with what may be the largest real-world deployment of a diag...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering Starling's massive PubMed dataset revolution, MedVIGIL's reality check for AI vision models, and MedAction's breakthrough in clin... • Chris, let's start with Starling. This is honestly mind-blowing — they've essentially turned the entire PubMed library into a self-organizing dataset.... • Yeah, and here's what gets me e...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering Bristol Myers' massive $15 billion China play, a reality check on mental health AI, and a game-changing breast pathology model ca... • So Bristol Myers Squibb just dropped $600 million upfront for a partnership with China's Hengrui Pharma, and this deal could be worth over $15 billion... • Yeah, and here's what's fascina...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Health for Monday, May 11, 2026. I'm Chris Novak, AI Health Tech Correspondent at Pivot Media. • And I'm Maya Johnson, AI Healthcare Editor. Today we're looking at how AI agents handle real lab work, how your car might detect dementia, and a new f... • Let's start with the agent story. A new evaluation suite called BioAgent...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Health for Friday, May 9th, 2026. I'm Chris Novak, your AI Health Tech Correspondent. • And I'm Maya Johnson, AI Healthcare Editor. Today we're looking at three stories that all circle the same question: what happens when general-purpose ... • Right. We've got patients using ChatGPT as a stand-in therapist, a new benchmark t...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: - Today we're covering Pennsylvania's lawsuit against Character. AI, new federal AI regulations for insurance, and a breakthrough in single-cell analysis... - Starting with that Character. AI lawsuit — this is a big deal. Pennsylvania is suing because an AI chatbot allegedly pretended to be a licensed psychia... - This hits at the heart of tru...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today: biotech IPOs explode back to life, OpenEvidence AI helps crack a complex brain case, and we'll look at how AI is changing the day-to-day for Ve... • Let's start with those IPOs. Chris, biotech has been frozen out of public markets for years. What's happening? • Maya, this is massive. Four biotech companies just raised one and a half b...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering HealthFormer, the AI that models human physiology like never before, trust issues with vision-language models in medicine, and ho... • Starting with HealthFormer — this is genuinely groundbreaking stuff. Researchers just dropped a generative AI model that can predict how your entire b... • Yeah, and we're not talking abo...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering UC San Diego's groundbreaking AI robotic spine surgery, a fascinating study on AI's carb-counting failures, and how routine CT sc... • Starting with UC San Diego Health making history—they just performed the first AI-assisted robotic spine surgery on the West Coast. This isn't just an... • Yeah, this is massive for spine...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're diving into the latest developments shaping AI in healthcare—from breakthrough diagnostics to game-changing clinical trials. • It's April 28, 2026, and the intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine continues to accelerate at an unprecedented pace. • Maya, I've been tracking this fascinating development at Stanford Medi...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're diving into the latest AI health developments that are reshaping medicine as we know it. • Chris, I think we need to start with this massive news out of Stanford. Their new AI system just diagnosed a rare genetic disorder that human doctors ... • Yeah, this is huge. The AI analyzed the patient's entire medical history, genetic da...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering UnitedHealth's massive AI investment, states cracking down on algorithmic insurance decisions, and why doctors are using AI chatb... • Let's start with the big money move. UnitedHealth just announced they're dropping one and a half billion dollars on AI infrastructure, and they're exp... • Yeah, and Chris, this is fascin...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering personalized mRNA vaccines finally cracking pancreatic cancer, the growing crisis of medical chatbots giving dangerous advice, an... • Chris, let's start with what might be the most significant cancer breakthrough in years. Memorial Sloan Kettering just released six-year data on their... • This is massive. We're talking...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering a six-year pancreatic cancer survivor thanks to personalized mRNA vaccines, thousand-dollar genome sequencing hitting your kitche... • Let's start with what might be the biggest cancer breakthrough I've seen in years. Memorial Sloan Kettering just released six-year follow-up data on t... • Maya, pancreatic cancer has a f...

Hosts: Chris Novak & Maya Johnson In this episode: • Today we're covering Revolution Medicine's stunning pancreatic cancer breakthrough, why AI chatbots are failing patients half the time, and Science Co... • Let's start with what might be the biggest pancreatic cancer news in decades. Revolution Medicines just reported their Phase 3 trial results for darax... • Yeah, they're calling it 'unpre...