The latest news
last seven days, updated every morningEvery item from the daily briefing in the last seven days, newest first, with what each is tagged for. Older items are in every daily briefing; each specialty's weekly roundup is on its page.
- EvidenceAI model trained on 40 million face photos sorts cancer patients by survival risk, Lancet Digital Health study findsFor oncology
- RegulationFDA finalizes guidance on when apps sold with prescription drugs belong in the drug's prescribing informationFor all physicians
- EvidenceRadical Numerics says phages designed by its AI model were given to a patient with an antibiotic-resistant infectionFor infectious disease
- MoneyIntuitive says da Vinci procedures grew about 14% in the third quarter and places 546 more systemsFor general surgery and urology
- EvidenceHome and virtual supportive oncology program tied to 10.4% fewer admissions among 5,432 Rhode Island cancer patientsFor oncology
- IncidentDoximity and OpenEvidence dismiss all claims in lawsuit that accused Doximity staff of posing as physicians to probe its AIFor all physicians
- EvidenceModel pairing clinical risk factors with 20 minutes of computerized fetal heart tracing sorts labor risk across 147,350 births, Lancet Digital Health study findsFor obstetrics and gynecology
- EvidenceTrials of large language model tools often omit model versions, code and harms reporting, BMJ review of 461 trial records findsFor all physicians
- MoneyXRlabs raises $8.4 million for operating-room software that merges live surgical video, navigation and imaging; it has no FDA clearanceFor neurosurgery and general surgery
- DeploymentSiemens Healthineers and Paradromics build an imaging workflow for implanting brain-computer interfaces, starting with speechFor neurosurgery and neurology
- RegulationCMS deputy administrator says "a lot of things" about WISeR, Medicare's AI prior-authorization pilot, are not workingFor practices, orthopedic surgery, Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington
- DeploymentCone Health, Health First and Covenant Health end hospital-at-home programs although Medicare's waiver runs through 2030For hospitals
- RegulationFDA clears Sequel's twiist automated insulin delivery system for adults with insulin-treated type 2 diabetesFor endocrinology and primary care
- EvidenceDigital GLP-1 program in UK reports 15.5% average weight loss and 91.4% retention among 8,127 women at six months, Nature Medicine study findsFor primary care
- MoneyOtter Health raises $8 million for software that checks care decisions against evidence in place of prior authorizationFor practices
- IncidentOpenAI says a model in training broke into a government statistics site for hospital-bed data and did not disclose the accessFor hospitals
- RegulationFDA clears SimBioSys software that estimates breast cancer recurrence risk from MRI, pathology and clinical dataFor oncology and radiology
- DeploymentChildren's Nebraska switches from Dragon Copilot to Epic's ambient tool as health system CIOs weigh token-based AI pricingFor hospitals
- DeploymentUCHealth says nurses have been slow to adopt its homegrown fall-prediction model, while physicians use ambient notes in most visitsFor hospitals and hospital medicine
- DeploymentAnesthesiologists' national outcomes registry begins pulling data directly from Epic records through a new cloud platformFor anesthesiology
- EvidenceJAMA Network will launch JAMA AI in early 2027, pairing human peer review with AI-driven assessment of every research paperFor all physicians
- IncidentFDA early alert ties burst balloons on Edwards delivery systems for the Sapien M3 mitral valve to one death and one serious injuryFor cardiology
- Incident97% of health care organizations report a cyberattack in a year, and 24% trace data loss to unguarded AI agents, Proofpoint survey findsFor hospitals and practices
- MoneySirona Medical raises $40 million for cloud radiology software and says it will onboard more than 1,000 radiologists in a yearFor radiology
- DeploymentUMass Memorial moves its EHR to Microsoft's cloud and will add Accenture agentic AI tools across a 2,400-physician systemFor hospitals
- DeploymentElation Health adds AI payment posting to its primary care billing tools, sending partial and denied payments to staffFor primary care and practices
- MoneyZocdoc makes its first acquisition, buying Sohar Health, which automates insurance eligibility and benefits checksFor practices
- IncidentOpting out of health record sharing took 26 steps and a notary at one Ohio hospital, CalMatters investigation findsFor practices and hospitals
- EvidenceMore than 950,000 clinicians sent OpenEvidence 271 million queries in 2.5 years, many outside their own specialty, JAMA study findsFor all physicians
- RegulationAMA framework says AI agents taking on clinical functions must earn authority through evidence and keep it through performanceFor all physicians
- RegulationStates ask bankruptcy court to make any Character.AI buyer remove bots posing as therapists, doctors and other licensed professionalsFor psychiatry and pediatrics
- EvidenceContinuous glucose monitors cut A1C 0.9 point more than routine care in type 2 diabetes without insulin, Dexcom-funded NEJM trial findsFor primary care and endocrinology
- EvidenceProstate MRI AI matches radiology readings for significant cancer in 1,974 external patients across 12 countries, SCARLET-1 study reportsFor radiology and urology
- EvidencePenn team links EEG to a language-model chat app that tells epilepsy patients about seizure risk and learns from their repliesFor neurology
- MoneyZimmer Biomet extends exclusive deal to sell THINK Surgical's handheld TMINI knee robotFor orthopedic surgery
- DeploymentEpic plans a 2027 prescription marketplace showing pharmacy cash prices beside insurance costs before a prescription is sentFor practices and hospitals
- IncidentEight states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT misled the public on safety and gave teenagers harmful advice on suicide and drugsFor psychiatry, pediatrics, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia
- RegulationMedical board federation drafts guidelines for AI working with little or no physician supervision; AMA, AHA, Anthropic and Elevance sit on the panelFor all physicians
- DeploymentUnitedHealth says AI chart summarization cut review time 33% and AI research cut appeal cycle times 26%For practices and hospitals
- EvidenceAI reading of dual-stain slides finds 88.3% of cervical precancers vs. 78.1% for manual reading, at lower specificityFor pathology and obstetrics and gynecology
- EvidenceAuthors from Duke, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern and Michigan propose five evidence phases for clinical AIFor hospitals
- MoneyDuke opens a $25 million federally funded center to evaluate AI tools for older adults and dementia careFor neurology and internal medicine
- MoneyHospital association report says about 4 in 10 rural hospitals need facility and technology upgrades and calls for permanent telehealth flexibilitiesFor rural and hospitals
Latest news
- AI model trained on 40 million face photos sorts cancer patients by survival risk, Lancet Digital Health study finds
- FDA finalizes guidance on when apps sold with prescription drugs belong in the drug's prescribing information
- Radical Numerics says phages designed by its AI model were given to a patient with an antibiotic-resistant infection