Physicians
California man sentenced to 30 years in $270M Medi-Cal scheme; AI-designed proteins outperformed an approved C
- The top news stories in medicine today.
Issue №118 · 2026-09-11
Daily Briefing · 2026-09-11
Physicians
The AI purchase your practice cannot evaluate (and what to check)
- Independent practices carry the same legal, regulatory and clinical exposure as large health systems when they buy AI tools, but none of the informatics oversight — here is the five-question framework to close that gap.
Physicians
STAT+: What to expect from UniQure’s upcoming Huntington’s gene therapy readout
- Before the end of September, UniQure is expected to report four-year results from the closely tracked clinical trial of its gene therapy for Huntington’s disease.
Physicians
STAT+: ARPA-H to invest $62 million to develop FDA-authorized AI to help treat heart failure
- ARPA-H, the government agency that funds cutting edge health research, plans to commit $62.7 million to develop artificial intelligence bots that direct treatment of heart failure.
Pharmacy
Natural Language Processing Identification of Nonprescribed Fentanyl Use in Electronic Health Records: Algorit
- Background: Overdose and suicide due to nonprescribed fentanyl use have increased significantly, yet health care systems lack reliable methods to identify patients who use nonprescribed fentanyl. codes are inconsistent a
Physicians
Health care IT is drowning — and AI just made it worse
- Security has become an operational crisis in the AI era
Physicians
Proximie launches largest ever surgical AI evaluation with AWS, Deloitte, and the NHS
- Proximie, the operating system for intelligent operating rooms, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Deloitte, and eight NHS hospitals, has announced the launch of the largest ever surgical AI evaluation unde
Physicians
Oz says ‘AI-based avatars’ can help rural communities. Some leaders disagree
- Feds invest in AI for heart failure, vaccines and this year's midterms, and more health news from Morning Rounds
Dentistry
Trust AI Brings VELMENI Dental AI Into Isaac PracticeOS
- Trust AI wires VELMENI’s FDA-cleared dental AI directly into Isaac PracticeOS — turning radiographs your practice already took into documented, reviewed, submitted claims. Trust AI recently announced a native integration
Dentistry
The One Seat in Your Practice Nobody Is Building AI For
- Written by: Bryan Greene Count the AI pitches that reached your practice in the last month. If you run a typical office, it was more than you bothered to open. Dozens of companies now sell an AI receptionist built for de
Dentistry
Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent
- The exact circumstances surrounding the changes aren't clear, but Meta execs have accidentally tagged the band instead of their AI agent.
Pharmacy
Patients Want to Know When Their Doctors Use AI. Should Practices Tell Them Everything?
- Artificial intelligence may be quietly becoming part of a patient’s medical appointment. It can help analyze an image, assist with clinical decisions, summarize information or listen to a physician-patient conversation a
Physician Assistant
Resources for Screening, Staging, and Treating Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome
- Approximately 90% of adults in the U.S. are at risk for or have CKM syndrome, making early recognition and longitudinal assessment essential to preventing irreversible disease progression. As frontline providers treating
Nursing
Saving Knowledge Before It Retires: The Case For Ambient AI As Clinical Wisdom Infrastructure
- We are facing a nursing knowledge shortage dressed in workforce statistics. The headcount problem has no good solution. The knowledge problem does, but only if we act before the people who carry that ...
Nursing
How Lifepoint Health Is Using AI to Give Nurses Their Time Back
- Michelle Watson, Lifepoint Health’s chief nurse executive, believes ambient listening and AI-powered patient prioritization are helping nurses reclaim time on tasks that don’t require clinical judgment. The goal is to fr
Nursing
Artificial Intelligence as a Structural Mediator of Person‐Centred Nursing Care: A Theoretical‐Reflective Anal
- Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
Nursing
Nurses must take lead on governing the AI that's changing their workflows
- As documentation automation spreads, health systems must preserve clinician verification, define accountability, and give frontline nurses authority from vendor selection through ongoing oversight.
Nursing
Kaiser nurses push back on AI monitoring of call times: Report
- Call center nurses at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente say the health system uses AI to monitor how long they spend on patient calls and presses ...
Digital Health
nPhase launches AI clinical data management platform to soup up sponsor trial design
- Clinical research company nPhase has launched an end-to-end clinical data management platform designed to help trial sponsors leverage trial results with AI.
Digital Health
STAT+: Orexin discoverers awarded prestigious Lasker award
- A new FDA CBER head, AI company Schrodinger with a new startup, and more biotech news from The Readout
Digital Health
Usability and Workflow Integration of a Machine Learning–Derived Neonatal Risk Predictor in Kenyan Neonatal Un
- Background: Neonatal mortality remains a leading contributor to under-5 deaths globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While machine learning (ML)–based risk prediction models show promise for
Digital Health
ARPA-H picks UpDoc, Tempus and Atman to build AI tools for heart disease
- UpDoc, Tempus AI and Atman Health will participate in a new program that aims to build FDA-authorized agentic AI tools to care for people with heart disease, the federal government announced Wednesday. Called ADVOCATE, t
Digital Health
Healthcare AI’s next test is integration
- While advanced AI excels at processing clinical data, healthcare's true test lies in overcoming deeply fragmented administrative workflows.
Digital Health
Speed, safety and trust: The blueprint for regulating AI in healthcare
- Lawrence Tallon, chief executive at the MHRA, tells Digital Health Unplugged about the new blueprint for regulating AI in UK healthcare.
Digital Health
National blueprint published for the regulation of AI in healthcare
- Promising new AI models will face an 'L-plate style’ authorisation system, under a blueprint for the regulation of AI in healthcare.
Digital Health
Why it’s hard to prove the benefits of AI deployed at scale
- We need a new approach to AI, writes Will Monaghan, group chief digital information officer at University Hospitals of Leicester
Digital Health
Healthcare Executives Weigh In: AI Readiness and the Growing Risk of Cybersecurity Threats
- [Sponsored] A webinar scheduled for September 30 from 1pm to 2pm ET will review the 2026 Healthcare AI Readiness Index and highlight some of the report’s takeaways, exploring the operational, regulatory and security chal
Digital Health
Four Things Healthcare Teams Get Wrong When Signing an AI Vendor BAA
- The following is a guest article by Mat Steinlin, Head of Information Security at Aptible Healthcare organizations have gotten better at asking the first AI compliance question: “Will the vendor sign a BAA?” If an AI ven
Digital Health
Can AI fix health care? In the chaos of emergency rooms, the technology comes up short.
- Ambient scribes, the most advanced artificial intelligence currently in the ER, haven’t changed the status quo.
Digital Health
NHS doctor-led commission issues blueprint for AI’s safe adoption in healthcare
- The National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare's recommendations were developed after consulting with 12,000 stakeholders.
Digital Health
Trump officials say AI will help save rural health care. Some leaders in the field don’t believe it
- Rural health care providers, which have struggled for years, are facing nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the coming decade. The ...
Digital Health
STAT+: Can AI fix the emergency room?
- AI can't change the ER's problems, which exemplify health care's bigger problems, writes Brittany Trang in this week's AI Prognosis.