Health AI, explained.
Rules, platforms, open-source projects, research and market moves in health technology. Every page is sourced, dated and checked by engineers who ship health AI.
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- Comparison · Global
Cloud medical NLP APIs vs on-device de-identification
AWS Comprehend Medical, Azure Text Analytics for health and Google's Healthcare Natural Language API compared with open-source tools that run on your own hardware.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Guide · Global, US, UK, India, Singapore
How to build crisis detection into a health chatbot
A practical guide to detecting suicide and self-harm risk in health and wellness chatbots, routing to helplines by country, and testing that it works.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Guide · Global
How to de-identify health chatbot logs
A step-by-step guide to removing names, phone numbers and IDs from health chatbot transcripts before they reach logs, analytics or model training.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Market · US, Global
Digital health funding in 2026: where the money is going
US digital health startups raised $11.1B in the first nine months of 2026, per Rock Health. What the numbers say about AI and what buyers now expect.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Regulation · EU
The EU AI Act for health AI: what applies now and later
Article 50 chatbot transparency since 2 August 2026, high-risk duties moved to December 2027 and August 2028, and how medical devices fit in.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Briefing · Global, US, EU, India
Health AI briefing: November 2026
Oura's $625M deal for Counsel Health, new rounds for Charta, Zus, Alterra Labs and Akara, the EU AI Act delay in force, and the US and India deadlines ahead.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Regulation · Global, US, EU, UK, India, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Singapore
Health AI regulation around the world: a 2026 tracker
The rules that apply to health and wellness AI in the US, EU, UK, India, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Singapore, with the dates that matter in 2026 and 2027.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Do's and don'ts · Global
Building a health chatbot: 12 do's and don'ts
Practical rules for teams shipping a health or wellness chatbot: disclosure, crisis handling, minors, medical claims, privacy and testing.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Comparison · Global, US, EU, India, Saudi Arabia, UAE
Health data laws compared: HIPAA, GDPR, DPDP, PDPL and the UAE
Who each health data law covers, consent, cross-border transfers, breach reporting and penalties in the US, EU, India, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Research · Global
HealthBench explained: what OpenAI's health benchmark measures
A plain-English breakdown of HealthBench: 5,000 conversations, 262 physicians, 48,562 rubric criteria, and what it does and does not tell you about a health chatbot.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Regulation · India
India's DPDP Rules 2025 for health apps: duties and dates
What the DPDP Rules 2025 require of health and wellness apps: notice, consent, children's data, security, breaches and the 13 May 2027 deadline.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Comparison · India
Speech AI for Indian languages in health voice assistants
Sarvam, AI4Bharat, Bhashini and global providers compared for Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and other Indian languages, and how to test speech models on your own callers.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Open data · India
Indian public health data sources for AI and research
HMIS, NFHS-5, the Indian Food Composition Tables, the ABDM sandbox and data.gov.in: what each offers, how to access it, and its limits.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Comparison · Global
LLM evaluation tools compared for health AI teams
Promptfoo, DeepEval, Inspect, Langfuse, Arize Phoenix and Braintrust: licences, strengths and which fits a regulated health product.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Research · Global
What 2026 research says about chatbots in mental health crises
A plain-English summary of 2026 studies on how AI chatbots handle suicide risk and mental health crises, and what product teams should take from them.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Open data · Global, US, India
Open health datasets for AI, and what each is good for
MIMIC-IV, Synthea, MedQA, MedMCQA, PubMedQA, HealthBench, NHANES, India's NFHS-5 and WHO data: access rules, sizes and the best use for each.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Open source · Global
Open medical language models in 2026 and their licences
MedGemma, Meditron, BioMistral and OpenBioLLM compared: sizes, published MedQA results and licence terms that matter before you build a product.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Open source · Global
Open-source healthcare AI projects worth knowing in 2026
Ten open projects for clinical NLP, de-identification, medical imaging, synthetic data, FHIR and medical language models, and what each one is good for.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Regulation · Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's PDPL and health data: a guide for AI teams
How Saudi Arabia's Personal Data Protection Law treats health data: explicit consent, transfer rules, SDAIA enforcement since September 2024 and penalties.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Regulation · Singapore
Singapore's rules for health AI: AIHGle 2.0, HSA and the PDPA
Singapore's refreshed AI in Healthcare Guidelines (March 2026), HSA's software medical device guidance and PDPA duties, explained for health AI teams.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Regulation · UAE
UAE health data law: localisation rules for health tech
Federal Law No. 2 of 2019 keeps UAE health data in the country by default. Here are the exceptions, the penalties and what it means for AI products.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Regulation · UK
UK health AI regulation: MHRA, AI Airlock and UK GDPR
How the UK regulates health AI in 2026: AI as a medical device under the MHRA, the AI Airlock sandbox now in phase 3, and UK GDPR for health data.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Regulation · US
US state AI chatbot laws: what health and wellness apps must do
California SB 243, New York's companion law, Washington HB 2225, Oregon, Tennessee and more: disclosure, crisis protocols, minors and who can sue.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Comparison · Global, India
WhatsApp Business Platform for health apps: pricing and providers
How Meta's per-message pricing works since July 2025, free service windows, choosing a provider, and the privacy questions a health chatbot on WhatsApp must answer.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026 - Startups · Global
Women's health AI startups to watch in 2026
AI companies in women's health that raised in 2026, from prenatal ultrasound to breast screening and cycle tracking, plus where femtech funding stands.
Reviewed 14 Nov 2026