Issue №144 · 2026-10-07

Daily Briefing · 2026-10-07

Physicians

AI Gets a Bigger Role in Healthcare - Not the Final Say

  • Healthcare AI can accelerate imaging, reduce administrative work and give clinicians more useful insights, but Philips' Patrick Mans says clinical decisions should ...
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Physicians

AI-Based Measurement Tools for Intrinsic Capacity in Older Adults: Scoping Review

  • Background: Intrinsic capacity (IC) has become a central concept in healthy aging because it emphasizes functional ability across the aging trajectory rather than disease alone. However, current IC assessment primarily r
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Physicians

Liability and Standard of Care in AI-Driven Psychiatric Practice: European Viewpoint

  • AI is increasingly incorporated into psychiatric triage, risk prediction, passive monitoring, clinical documentation, and patient-facing conversational systems. These applications may improve access, continuity, efficien
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Physicians

AI skin cancer tech frees up dermatologist capacity, finds study

  • Research has found that using an autonomous AI medical device for skin cancer detection can free up thousands of dermatology appointments.
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Physicians

The Next AI Employee for a Medical Practice Should Own a Queue

  • The following is a guest article by Feynman Xu, Ph.D., Founder and CEO at MedArise Independent medical practices often describe prior authorization, referral, eligibility, fax, and revenue cycle backlogs as hiring proble
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Physicians

What MGMA's fight over downcoding and prior authorization means for physicians

  • Medical Economics spoke with MGMA's Madison Hynes about the association's draft bill to ban automatic downcoding, the Patients First Act and AI-run prior authorization in traditional Medicare.
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Physicians

Machine Learning and Deep Learning for the Diagnosis of Cervical Degenerative Diseases: Systematic Review and

  • Background: Cervical degenerative diseases are a global public health issue, and their incidence is rising worldwide. Although an increasing number of studies on traditional machine learning (TML) and deep learning (DL)
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Pharmacy

From skin scan to prescription: AI acne prescribing launches in Utah

  • Nolla Health claims it has the nation’s first approval for artificial intelligence to issue initial prescriptions. Physician review comes later.
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Pharmacy

Genentech AI leader Richard Bonneau leaves pharma in latest exit

  • In the latest high-profile departure at Roche's Genentech unit, the pharma has parted ways with its global head of AI for drug discovery, Endpoints News has learned. Computational biologist Richard Bonneau has left, effe
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Pharmacy

Scientists claim Nobel Prize for approach behind light-activated gene therapy

  • The Nobel Prize committee says that optogenetics will lay the foundations for a new era in neuroscience, as pharma explores its role on treating ophthalmic conditions.
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Pharmacy

STAT+: Utah plows ahead with more health AI pilots for prescriptions, women’s health

  • Utah plans to allow an AI product to evaluate patients and write new drug prescriptions without prior human review.
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Pharmacy

This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions

  • People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze a
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Physician Assistant

‘The Posh PA’ Michele Neskey Talks Content Creation, Authenticity, and Advising the Next Generation of PAs

  • In conjunction with PA Week, The Clinical Advisor kicks off its Medfluencer series with Michele Neskey, PA-C, a seasoned oncology physician associate (PA) and the creator behind “The Posh PA” ...
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Digital Health

Participatory Design of AI-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems: Scoping Review

  • Background: AI-based clinical decision support systems (CDSS) can improve diagnostics and treatment decisions, but they are rarely implemented in practice. Barriers include limited integration into clinical workflows, la
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Digital Health

AKASA launches AI for autonomous mid-cycle coding

  • A new solution from AKASA promises to fully code inpatient cases with no human intervention as the company continues to apply advanced AI to the mid-cycle.
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Digital Health

South Korea to deploy AI for round-the-clock care, using smart diapers and fall sensors to flag health risks

  • The government plans to apply AI to the welfare sector to achieve round-the-clock care, while using the technology to streamline administrative tasks so workers ...
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Digital Health

Let compassion remain at the Heart of Healthcare despite artificial intelligence - Health Minister

  • The Minister for Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has urged health professionals to ensure that compassion, dignity and respect remain central to patient care, even as technology and Artificial ...
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Digital Health

CIO Podcast – Episode 123: AI Governance and Security with Joe Diver

  • For the 123rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Joe Diver, CIO at Signature Healthcare, to talk about AI governance and security. We kick this episode off with Diver sharing his e
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Digital Health

Government accepts all 44 NHS AI commission recommendations

  • The government has confirmed it will accept all 44 recommendations made by the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare.
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