When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

Along with expanding research into large-language models to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPC, the search-engine king is working on AI for improving maternal care, ultrasound access and tuberculosis screening.

Wary consumers can be convinced to allow AI into their healthcare habits by communications campaigns tuned to the ancient rhetorical categories of ethos, pathos and logos. 

“Together, Pfizer and Seagen seek to accelerate the next generation of cancer breakthroughs and bring new solutions to patients by combining the power of Seagen’s antibody-drug conjugate technology with the scale and strength of Pfizer’s capabilities and expertise," says Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla, PhD.

The Food and Drug Administration has put in for a $7.2 billion chunk of the $6.9 trillion federal budget for fiscal year 2024 that President Joe Biden proposed March 9.

The new collaboration aims to enable providers to provide hospital-level care at home, leaning on Atrium Health’s telemedicine services and Best Buy Health’s ongoing care at home platform.

With the growth trajectory, Walmart Health will have more than 75 locations by the end of 2024.

ChatGPT and similar technologies coming down the medical pike have far to go before they’re reliable sources of accurate and appropriate health information. That doesn’t mean they’re non-factors now.