{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"PULSE","title":"Healthcare’s Trust Paradox: AI Scribes, Augmented Humans, and the Rise of “Influencer Medicine”","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/dcf9a5fc\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2605,"description":"Welcome to Pulse: Hot Topics, where Louise and George unpack the big shifts shaping healthcare right now - from billion-dollar hype to human-level trust.\n\nAre AI Scribes The Billion-Dollar Burnout Band-Aid?\nDoctors adore them, investors can’t stop funding them - We dig into the paradox of technology that makes clinicians happy but might not be improving productivity—and why transparency is becoming urgent as these tools expand into agentic workflows.\n\nChatbots in Therapy: When AI Joins the Session\nFrom therapists secretly using ChatGPT mid-session, to patients uploading their medical records for advice, and one founder shutting down his AI therapy app over safety fears — can AI-mediated care ever truly be therapeutic?\n\nNew Zealand’s Digital Déjà Vu\nAfter a tough 2024, New Zealand’s back with a 10-year digital health plan, a new Centre for Modernisation, and a promise of one innovation a month. But with no funding announcement and an election looming, is this genuine commitment or just another round of hopeful planning? Tender watch is on.\n\nMIT’s Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies\nMIT Technology Review’s annual list has brain–computer interfaces voted readers’ #11 pick. Are BCIs about to finally enter their translation era? And would George drill a hole in his head for the tech?\n\nThe BMJ vs. TikTok Medicine\nWhat happens when money, marketing, medicine, and misinformation collide? Raffael Heiss can tell you as he’s mapped it. Spoiler alert: it’s not god. Tina Purnat argues we can't regulate this away—we need to recognise the information environment as a determinant of health.\n\nResources:\nAI Scribes paper, NEJM AI Link\nNZ DH Strategy, Pulse+IT Story Link\nMIT Technology Review’s Breakthrough Tech List Link\nPublic health challenges of ‘medical influencers’ BMJ Link\n\nVisit Pulse+IT.news to subscribe to breaking digital news, weekly newsletters and a rich treasure trove of archival material. People in the know, get their news from Pulse+IT – Your leading voice in digital...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/aPsprpFAVit7zUypJXX0uCh0OMcGEtcxnQe9ip-bVNM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lODNj/MDQ4NTZmZWQxNWY5/MmU0YTEyNTNmMjY5/NTk1ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}