Cigna Corp. plans to expand a system that uses artificial intelligence to identify gaps in treatment of chronic diseases, such as patients skipping their medications, and deliver personalized recommendations for specific patients.

Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states. However, neither patients nor doctors have been notified.

Israel plans to combine HMOs’ digital health records that cover most Israelis into a single system for AI and data analytics to tap.
In a small country with digitized records, big data could make medicine cheaper and more effective.

U.S. retailers large and small are pressing ahead with testing the use of artificial intelligence to track what products shoppers pick up and to automatically bill their accounts when they walk out the door, eliminating the need for checkout lines.

More than a dozen companies offer artificial-intelligence programs that promise to identify a person’s race, but researchers and even some vendors worry it will fuel discrimination

Black patients were less likely than white patients to get extra medical help, despite being sicker, when an algorithm used by a large hospital chose who got the additional attention, according to a new study underscoring the risks as technology gains a foothold in medicine.

Startup companies, government agencies and academics are racing to combat deepfakes, amid fears that doctored videos and photographs will be used to sow discord ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

While digital surveillance is being used to curb coronavirus, it also has the potential to be used long after the pandemic to monitor individuals' movement.