Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” Vince Lahey of Carefree, Arizona, embraces chatbots. From Big Tech products to “shady” ones, they offer “someone that I could share more secrets with than my therapist.” He especially likes…

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A Unified Sense of Self

By MIKE MAGEE Stanford neuroscientist, David Eagleman, reminded us this week that “A coherent explanation of consciousness eludes modern science.” That was his opening line in the New York Times book review of Michael Pollan’s latest effort, “A World Appears.” In it, Pollan asks innocently, “How does the brain generate a unified sense of self?”…

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What can we learn about nursing and AI from The Pitt. FDA expediting first-in-human trials?IIA.Measles back in SF.US fertility at all-time low.

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CMS’ New ‘App Store’ Is Trying to Turn Interoperability Into a Digital Health Distribution System

CMS is rolling out its health tech ecosystem initiative with a new Medicare app library that functions like a healthcare “App Store,” aiming to make patient data more portable and accessible across vetted digital health apps. The post CMS’ New ‘App Store’ Is Trying to Turn Interoperability Into a Digital Health Distribution System appeared first…

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