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This volume explores confusion around COVID-19 booster eligibility as federal recommendations shift and conflicts with guidance from physician organizations; Florida’s decision to end school vaccine mandates; and research demonstrating that artificial intelligence chatbots can provide generally sound advice, but struggle to make personalized recommendations.
In July 2025, the Trump administration announced a new effort (“Making Health Tech Great Again”) towards health data interchange.. This brief describes the new, voluntary Trump administration interoperability initiative, provides an overview of key health information technology laws and regulations, and highlights some of the challenges and limitations of these efforts.
This edition examines the role of news influencers in spreading misinformation, misleading narratives about harm reduction amid disparities in opioid overdose, and biases in artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.
In this issue, we take a closer look at the reliability of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots as a source of health information. We explore public opinion on chatbot accuracy based on KFF surveys and highlight recent examples of AI-generated election misinformation in the news. In addition, we share our firsthand experience querying AI chatbots on health topics and discuss research on gaps in safeguards.
KFF's Health Misinformation Tracking Poll finds that while most adults say they have interacted with artificial intelligence (AI), most are not confident that these chatbots provide accurate health information. Most of the public, and half of AI users, are not confident they can tell whether information from AI chatbots is true or false
Amid rising interest in and use of artificial intelligence (AI) by individuals and businesses, most of the public (63%), including most AI users (56%), are not confident that AI chatbots provide accurate health information, a new KFF Health Misinformation Tracking Poll finds.
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