JAMA Network plans JAMA AI journal, with AI-assisted peer review
Physician in the Loop, Oct 17, 2026
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The JAMA Network will launch JAMA AI, a fully online journal on artificial intelligence and other computational tools in medicine, in early 2027, its editors announced Oct. 15 in JAMA.
Every research article submitted will receive "human-directed, AI-driven assessment and review" alongside the network's usual peer review, and human editors will make all decisions, the editors wrote. AI-related submissions to JAMA Network journals have more than doubled since 2023 and far exceed what those journals can publish, they said. The new journal, the network's 14th, will also publish studies of mobile apps, wearable sensors, digital imaging and virtual reality.
Dr. Roy H. Perlis, editor of the network's JAMA+ AI online channel since its launch in October 2024, will be the inaugural editor, and the channel will continue. The announcement does not say whether the journal will be open access.
THE DETAILS
- FYIEvidence Oct 15, 2026Submissions open in early 2027, and the journal will publish articles online as soon as they are accepted, edited and produced, according to the announcement by Dr. Roy H. Perlis, Annette Flanagin and Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo. Reviewers will also get AI tools to help their evaluations, and the editors said they will favor work that addresses clinical care. Perlis will join the University of California, San Francisco's Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute on Feb. 1, 2027, the announcement said.
- ActIncident Oct 15, 2026
FDA says not to use Commander M lots 67718561, 67804014, 67887043 or 67887044 and to remove and return them to Edwards.
The Food and Drug Administration said Oct. 15 that balloons on four lots of Commander M delivery systems, used with the Sapien M3 transcatheter mitral valve replacement system, may burst during inflation, a potentially high-risk device issue. Edwards Lifesciences reported three burst-balloon events, one death and one serious injury as of Oct. 5, when it told customers to remove the affected lots, according to the agency. A burst can cause embolism or keep the device from being retrieved through the guide sheath, which may require further intervention, including surgery, the FDA said. Fewer than 200 units are affected, MedTech Dive reported.Sources: FDA, MedTech Dive - FYIIncident Oct 15, 2026The fifth annual survey by Proofpoint and the Ponemon Institute, released Oct. 13, polled 705 IT and security practitioners at U.S. health care organizations; 74% said attacks disrupted patient care, and the costliest attack averaged $4.2 million, up from $3.9 million in 2025. Sixty percent said they lack controls over sensitive data used in AI systems, and 32% said they have full visibility into employees' use of unsanctioned AI tools. Security chiefs at several health systems told Becker's Hospital Review they expect intrusions by AI agents, and Lexington Health's Rob Mireles called it "a question of when, not if." Becker's cited an Oct. 1 Asymmetric Security report that OpenAI agents probed websites of Mayo Clinic, the CDC and others; Mayo said it has no evidence of unauthorized access.
- FYIMoney Oct 15, 2026Avidity Partners led the Series D announced Oct. 15, with 8VC, GreatPoint Ventures and KLT Holdings participating, the company said. Sirona's RadOS combines image archiving, reporting, diagnostic viewing, worklists and AI workflow tools in one cloud system; the company said its revenue grew 2.5 times year over year and that contracts cover more than 12 million primary imaging exams a year. Chief Executive Ken Kaufman cited "a radiology staffing crisis." The figures are the company's own, and it named no customers.Source: Sirona Medical
- FYIDeployment Oct 15, 2026UMass Memorial Health, which has more than 20,000 caregivers and 2,400 physicians, said Oct. 15 it will replace siloed reporting systems with a single data platform on Microsoft Azure and move its electronic health record there in a multiyear initiative. Accenture will introduce agentic AI tools to automate complex workflows and generate insights, the companies said, without naming products. Chief Executive Dr. Eric Dickson said the move will give caregivers faster access to information. No cost or timeline was disclosed.Sources: Accenture, Fierce Healthcare
- FYIDeployment Oct 15, 2026The EHR and billing company said Oct. 15 that its software now drafts procedure and diagnosis codes from the signed note, flags often-missed wellness codes and quality measures and posts payments, routing partial, complex or denied payments to a person with a rationale and a suggested next step. Elation said its note-to-payment workflow has cut manual work per claim more than 70% since March, a figure that is the company's own. Payment posting is in beta and opens to new customers Nov. 1, the company said.Sources: Elation Health, Fierce Healthcare
- FYIMoney Oct 14, 2026Zocdoc said Oct. 14 that the deal closed Oct. 2; terms were not disclosed. Sohar, founded in 2023 by a physician and an engineer, finds a patient's coverage from a name and date of birth, verifies benefits and in-network status and supports cost estimates across more than 1,000 payers, according to Zocdoc; its customers include BetterHelp, Headway, Rula and Talkiatry. Sohar keeps its name and customers, and the announcement does not describe its technology as AI.Sources: Zocdoc, Fierce Healthcare
- FYIIncident Oct 15, 2026A reporter who registered as a patient at 25 clinics and hospitals in seven states over a year documented the opt-out process, CalMatters and The Markup reported Oct. 15. Epic's Care Everywhere exchange includes patients by default, and revoking access requires contacting each provider that holds the records, Epic's Matt Doyle told the outlet; 112 patients had chosen full undiscoverability since that option launched in August 2025. Consent forms reviewed for the story often asked patients to agree to use of their data for training, including AI training.Source: CalMatters