Can AI reduce health care fraud, AI firm in Texas AG’s crosshairs, and more

In latest health tech news: Can artificial intelligence reduce health care fraud, and Texas AG investigates a health AI company claims.

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Texas AG reaches settlement in health AI probe

In other legal news, the Texas Attorney General has reached a settlement with a Dallas health AI company that the government charged with making false claims about its products’ accuracy and safety before deploying them at Texas hospitals. The company, called Pieces, sells generative AI technology it says provides summaries of patients’ condition and treatment to clinicians. The AG concluded that Pieces’ metrics for accuracy, and its claims about a relatively low hallucination rate, were themselves inaccurate. Read more.

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