Healthcare IT News January 26, 2026
In its annual Top 10 list of health technology hazards, the patient safety group puts AI bots at the top – with blackouts, communication failures and other cyber risks close behind.
ECRI, the independent and nonpartisan patient safety organization, published its annual list of Top 10 health technology hazards this past week. Unsurprisingly, as it is in so many other areas of healthcare, generative AI is making its presence felt.
WHY IT MATTERS
The safety group places artificial intelligence chatbots in healthcare atop its 2026 list, noting that large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Grok, which “produce human-like and expert-sounding responses to users’ questions,” are nonetheless not regulated as medical devices even as they’re used more and...
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