Medical AI Privacy

Not All Medical AI Tools Protect Your Privacy Equally – Here’s What a New Study Reveals If you’ve used a symptom checker, mental health chatbot, or AI‑powered telehealth service recently, you’ve probably handed over some of your most sensitive personal information. A July 2026 study from Telehealth.org offers a sobering look at how well—or how poorly—different medical AI tools guard that data. The key finding: privacy risks vary dramatically depending on the type of tool you use, and patients have little visibility into which ones are safe. ...

How to Protect Your Medical Privacy When AI Is Used in Your X-Rays and Scans If you’ve had an X-ray, CT scan, or MRI recently, there’s a good chance an artificial intelligence tool analyzed your images. AI is becoming standard in radiology—it can speed up readings, flag abnormalities, and even predict disease. But the same technology that helps diagnose you also introduces privacy risks that most patients aren’t told about. ...