KEY POINTS
- Caregiver apps such as Caring Village and Citizen Health's Ari now include AI assistants for questions, symptom tracking and appointment prep.
- A Harvard Law professor says most of these tools are not FDA-reviewed medical devices and that HIPAA typically does not cover the data users enter.
- A caregiving trainer says the apps depend on caregivers doing the data entry, since clinicians rarely log in to update them.
WIRED reported that a growing group of apps built for caregivers is adding artificial intelligence features to help families manage the care of older adults, children and people with ongoing medical conditions. The piece also lays out concerns from experts about privacy, regulatory oversight and the work it takes to keep such tools current.
