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Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High during the 2018 massacre. Seeing his peers — and himself — struggle with returning to normal, he says he wanted to do something to help people manage emotions.

Orlando Health is expanding its virtual technology to make better use of employees and ease patients' comfort.

With the rise of AI, people who once turned to Google to check on medical issues are going to chatbots. Researchers say the bots are often more accurate but urge caution in the absence of regulations.

To contain the opioid crisis, agencies have turned to technology to monitor prescription data. Experts have raised questions about how these systems work and worry about their accuracy and potential biases.

The attack is disrupting facilities operated by Prospect Medical Holdings, which is based in California and has hospitals and clinics there and in Texas, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.

The National Eating Disorders Association took down a controversial chatbot, after users showed how the newest version could dispense potentially harmful advice about dieting and calorie counting.

Given a dire shortage of behavioral health providers in the U.S., it may prove tempting for insurers to offer up apps and chatbots to meet the federal mental health parity requirement.

Giant corporations like Microsoft and Google, plus many startups, are eyeing health care profits from programs based on artificial intelligence.

U.S. hospitals have seen a record number of cyberattacks over the past few years. Getting hacked can cost a hospital millions of dollars and expose patient data, and even jeopardize patient care.

A growing number of hospitals are shifting care into patients' homes. That means moving medications, machines and staffing with it, but hospitals are finding patients heal better, and it's cheaper.