The latest congressional pressure on the Department of Veterans Affairs is not really about whether the agency should modernize its electronic health record. That argument was settled years ago.

Perplexity is entering one of the most consequential corners of consumer health technology with Perplexity Health, a new product that promises to combine medical records, lab results, and wearable data into one conversational layer. On the surface, that sounds like the natural next step for an AI search company. In reality, it signals something bigger. Consumer health AI is moving beyond answer retrieval and into the far riskier business of interpreting a person’s fragmented health life in one place.

The breach at TriZetto Provider Solutions, a Cognizant business, should not be treated as another familiar HIPAA headline. A filing with the Maine Attorney General’s office indicates that 3,429,351 people were affected, while industry reporting tied to the same disclosure said the unauthorized access began on November 19, 2024, and the compromised data was not fully understood until late November 2025. In any sector, that kind of dwell time would be serious

Healthcare has spent the last two years talking about artificial intelligence as though the central question were model intelligence. The more consequential question is turning out to be system design. A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published in npj Health Systems found that an orchestrated multi-agent setup sustained markedly stronger performance than a single general-purpose agent under simulated clinical workloads, with accuracy holding up far better as concurrent tasks increased and compute use dropping by as much as 65-fold.