Issue №101 · Sunday, August 23, 2026
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Today's Issue
6 stories · ~7 min read
PhysiciansBeyond The Honeymoon Period: Ambient AI And The Next Frontier
DentistryCurve Dental Forecasts Major Dental Software Consolidation
PharmacyBlue Matter— AI Transformation in Drug Discovery – Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 75
Physician AssistantMeet the 2026 recipients of the Michael Powe Leadership in Advocacy Scholarship
Digital HealthThis Week In Epic News: FTC Probe, AI Agents & More
Health OSHealthcare AI Should Help Experts Work Faster, Not Replace Their Judgment
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Sunday, August 23, 2026
Today's Issue.
26 stories · ~5 min readPhysicians.
Aug 22 | Physicians
Beyond The Honeymoon Period: Ambient AI And The Next Frontier (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Physicians
Correction: Enhanced Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Ischemic Stroke Through Electronic Med (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Physicians
Effects of Type and Timing of Clinician-Facing AI Support on Patient Trust in Medical Consultations: 2 Vignett (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Physicians
Social Determinants of Digital Health Intervention Use in China: National Cross-Sectional Study (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Physicians
Ethics of Autonomous AI Clinical Trials: Delphi Study (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Physicians
AI and Patient Trust in Health Care (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Physicians
Co-Designing a Clinician-Centered Video Gait Assessment System for Cerebral Palsy Based on the Framework for C (1 min read)
Aug 21 | Physicians
Imperial launches centre to advance surgical robotics (1 min read)
Aug 21 | Physicians
FDA asks for feedback on AI regulation concept (1 min read)
Aug 21 | Physicians
Most AI tools cleared by FDA were not tested on clinical outcomes (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Physicians
Trump picks Heidi Overton to lead the FDA; CMS tightens prior auth disclosure rules; JAMA authors say AI alone (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Physicians
Is your ACO becoming the Blockbuster Video of value-based care? (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Physicians
Siemens Healthineers, Philips awarded ARPA-H funds for stroke robots (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Physicians
Evaluation of Prompt Design and Internal Reasoning in Chatbot-Based Medical History Taking: Simulation Study (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Physicians
CMS tech rules and AI benefits for primary care, patients and ‘touchless’ prior auths (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Physicians
Ultragenyx, after FDA speed bump, lands 1st gene therapy nod with green light in glycogen storage disease (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Physicians
FDA approves Ultragenyx's gene therapy Genglycos for glycogen storage disorder (1 min read)
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Aug 20 | Physicians
AI Models for Predicting Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Post-AKI Mortality: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (1 min read)
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Aug 20 | Physicians
9 fixes for the AI your staff is already using (1 min read)
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Aug 20 | Physicians
Readability of AI-Generated Patient Visit Summaries in Orthopedic Surgery: Retrospective Analysis (1 min read)
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Aug 20 | Physicians
Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation Occurrence With Handheld Mobile Electrocardiogram: Deep Learning Model Devel (1 min read)
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Aug 20 | Physicians
Clinical Laboratory Terminology Standardization for Semantic Interoperability Using a Large Language Model–Bas (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Physicians
The Robot Stayed Late, but the Patient Left Early (1 min read)
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Aug 20 | Physicians
When patients ask AI about you, what wrong answer are they getting? (1 min read)
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Aug 19 | Physicians
The Continuity Trap in Data Science Health Research (1 min read)
Dentistry.
Aug 21 | Dentistry
Curve Dental Forecasts Major Dental Software Consolidation (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Dentistry
AI May Make Chairside Diagnosis of Cognitive Impairment a Reality (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Dentistry
Planet DDS Expands AI-Powered Dental Software (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Dentistry
Kindergarten vaccination rates fall again; hundreds of federal datasets altered or deleted; robot dentists — M (1 min read)
Aug 17 | Dentistry
CyberSmile opens Hong Kong training centre for robotic and AI-assisted dental implant surgery (1 min read)
Aug 16 | Dentistry
Dental experts back NHS England move to reduce record-keeping burden (1 min read)
Aug 14 | Dentistry
Engineered to Win: Scanning, AI, and High-Performance Dentistry (1 min read)
Aug 14 | Dentistry
Reverse evidence-based dentistry: From chairside observation to responsible clinical innovation (1 min read)
Aug 14 | Dentistry
Contemporary provisionalisation with 3D printing: New approaches to familiar clinical challenges (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Dentistry
How generative AI is exacerbating dental negligence claims (1 min read)
Aug 12 | Dentistry
Oryx Named Among Fastest-Growing Software Companies (1 min read)
Pharmacy.
Aug 21 | Pharmacy
Blue Matter— AI Transformation in Drug Discovery – Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 75 (1 min read)
Aug 21 | Pharmacy
STAT+: Are cancer patients getting too much drug? (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Pharmacy
FDA grants accelerated approval to Ultragenyx’s Genglycos gene therapy (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Pharmacy
STAT+: FDA approves Ultragenyx gene therapy (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Pharmacy
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Regeneron rare disease drug, an Ultragenyx gene therapy, and more (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Pharmacy
Ultragenyx Gene Therapy Becomes First FDA-Approved Treatment for Ultra-Rare Disease (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Pharmacy
AI in Pharmacovigilance: Why Governance Will Define Success (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Pharmacy
FDA Authorizes First-Of-Its-Kind Robotic Blood Draw Device (1 min read)
Aug 18 | Pharmacy
Multimodal Digital Therapeutics Enhanced by Task Design and AI for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Co (1 min read)
Aug 18 | Pharmacy
How Sheba Medical Center became OpenAI’s first international hospital partner (1 min read)
Aug 17 | Pharmacy
How consumerization is reshaping pharma marketing (1 min read)
Aug 17 | Pharmacy
Moving at the speed of pharma digitalisation: driving ROI from AI and digital tools (1 min read)
Aug 17 | Pharmacy
Interventional glaucoma takes center stage (1 min read)
Aug 16 | Pharmacy
Better Models Won’t Fix Pharma’s AI Problem — Better Terminology Will (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Pharmacy
AI clinical monitoring agent can deliver up to 82 times the ROI in oncology: report (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Pharmacy
The 50 best-funded biotech companies of 2026 (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Pharmacy
Repligen’s deal for BioLife Solutions indicates shift to manufacturing integration (1 min read)
Physician Assistant.
Aug 21 | Physician Assistant
Meet the 2026 recipients of the Michael Powe Leadership in Advocacy Scholarship (1 min read)
Aug 18 | Physician Assistant
AAPA Joins 200+ Medical, Health and Patient Advocacy Groups in Opposing Executive Order on Childhood Vaccines (1 min read)
Aug 17 | Physician Assistant
Advocacy in Action: PAs Have the Attention of Congress…We Need Your Voice at LAS to Keep It! (1 min read)
Aug 12 | Physician Assistant
AAPA Recognizes Sheila Mauldin with Honorary PA Designation (1 min read)
Nursing.
Aug 18 | Nursing
Barriers and Facilitators to AI Implementation in Intensive Care Units in China: Qualitative Study Among Nurse (1 min read)
Aug 18 | Nursing
Chungnam National University's nursing college, hospital to expand AI-based healthcare cooperation (1 min read)
Aug 18 | Nursing
Aiva Leverages ChatGPT for Healthcare, Claude for Healthcare and Gemini Enterprise to Control 40+ Hospital IT (1 min read)
Aug 15 | Nursing
Artificial Intelligence and Nursing: Freedom From the Mundane or Subservience to a New Nobility (1 min read)
Aug 15 | Nursing
Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Education: A Scoping Review of Academic Perspectives (1 min read)
Aug 14 | Nursing
Mercy nurses cut documentation time 22% with Microsoft AI (1 min read)
Aug 12 | Nursing
Nurses seek a seat at the table as they fight expanding clinical AI (1 min read)
Digital Health.
Aug 22 | Digital Health
This Week In Epic News: FTC Probe, AI Agents & More (1 min read)
Aug 21 | Digital Health
Why Trusted Clinical AI Is Healthcare's Next Cybersecurity Imperative (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Digital Health
Patient Stratification for Improving Acute Chest Pain Management and Mitigating Emergency Department Crowding: (1 min read)
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Aug 21 | Digital Health
Integrated Clinical-Molecular Risk Stratification in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma: Machine Learning Survival (1 min read)
Aug 21 | Digital Health
AI Slop, Poor Patient Design, and Gripes – Fun Friday (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Digital Health
HATCo outlines how AI will factor into Summa Health transformation (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Digital Health
AMA, DiMe launch AI framework for physicians amid rapid tech progress (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Digital Health
Agentic AI in Healthcare Operations: A Build-vs-Buy Framework for Health-System CIOs (1 min read)
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Aug 20 | Digital Health
How AI can give healthcare teams more time to care (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Digital Health
Epic's AI push overlaps with health tech startups (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Digital Health
Patients struggle to communicate with AI GP receptionist (1 min read)
DH
Aug 20 | Digital Health
The Real AI Revolution In Home Care Is Leadership: Why AI Should Make Healthcare More Human, Not Less (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Digital Health
Why Healthcare’s AI Breakthrough Must Be Built On Trust (1 min read)
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Aug 19 | Digital Health
Machine Learning–Based Risk Prediction of In-Hospital Mortality in Patients With Non–ST-Elevation Acute Corona (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Digital Health
Why I’m among the one in 10 clinicians avoiding AI (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Digital Health
Study explores AI in healthcare (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Digital Health
Millions of Americans are Asking AI for Medical Help, Bad Data is Standing in the Way (1 min read)
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Aug 19 | Digital Health
AI note-taking tool frees up doctors at St. Bernards Healthcare (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Digital Health
Faster, Safer Patient Care Starts With Better Team Chat (1 min read)
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Aug 19 | Digital Health
AI In Healthcare: Leadership Tips For A Smarter, More Human Future (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Digital Health
Ambience Healthcare Sets a New Standard for AI Partnerships in Healthcare (1 min read)
Aug 18 | Digital Health
Louisiana Requires Verbal Disclosure Before AI-Assisted Recording of Patient Encounters (1 min read)
Aug 17 | Digital Health
AI In Healthcare: Doctors Must Stay Accountable, Experts Say (1 min read)
Aug 17 | Digital Health
Healthcare Is Deploying AI Tools — It’s Not Ready for AI Colleagues (1 min read)
Aug 17 | Digital Health
Healthcare AI Pet Peeves – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 199 (1 min read)
Health OS.
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Aug 22 | Health OS
Healthcare AI Should Help Experts Work Faster, Not Replace Their Judgment (1 min read)
Aug 22 | Health OS
Weekly Rundown: Expressable joins Amazon's health conditions program; Function launches data connector for AI (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Health OS
Oracle Health builds out clinical AI agent with coding, chart review tools (1 min read)
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Aug 20 | Health OS
Humana taps physician executive as new chief medical officer (1 min read)
Aug 20 | Health OS
Enlil Unveils Governed AI Foundation to Ready Medical Device Makers for AI-Assisted Regulatory Review (1 min read)
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Aug 20 | Health OS
R1 drills down on AI prior authorizations with Humata buy (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Health OS
Epic expands AI ambitions with agent platform, Cosmos-powered predictions and workflow automation (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Health OS
Happy Health secures $75M to expand AI-powered care in the home starting with sleep apnea (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Health OS
R1 acquiring Humata Health to bolster AI-powered prior authorizations (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Health OS
A robot could eventually conduct your blood draw at the doctor's office (1 min read)
Aug 19 | Health OS
Curitics Health Unveils Next-Generation AI Platform to Transform Clinical Workflows (1 min read)
Aug 18 | Health OS
Innovaccer, Mastek ink strategic partnership to scale agentic AI in healthcare globally (1 min read)
Aug 18 | Health OS
Epic debuts instant prior authorization checks at 4 health systems (1 min read)
Aug 18 | Health OS
Happy Health raises $75m for continuous healthcare platform’s expansion (1 min read)
Aug 17 | Health OS
FDA names second participant in TEMPO digital health pilot (1 min read)
Aug 14 | Health OS
Distalmotion receives FDA 510(k) clearance for Dexter robotic system (1 min read)
Aug 14 | Health OS
Optellum and Coreline Soft plan AI integration for lung nodule care (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Health OS
STAT+: What Medicare incentives for AI-based devices mean for tech companies — and hospitals (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Health OS
Cedar launches Kora Platform to build out agentic AI for medical billing (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Health OS
Common Health Coalition secures $100M from OpenAI Foundation to boost hepatitis C cure rates (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Health OS
Suvi Health launches ambient AI solution for patients to reduce hospital stays and support care transitions (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Health OS
Oracle Health debuts revamped patient portal with an AI upgrade (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Health OS
Digital Decisions: Enhancing Chronic Disease Self-Care Through Digital Health and AI-Enhanced Decision-Making (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Health OS
STAT+: An investigation into Commure, and Medicare’s new-tech incentives for AI devices (1 min read)
Aug 13 | Health OS
Wandercraft’s self-balancing exoskeleton wins FDA clearance (1 min read)
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