Issue №168 · 2026-10-31

Daily Briefing · 2026-10-31

Physicians

The Current Roles of AI in Public Health Practice: Scoping Review

Background: AI is a broad field encompassing various techniques, which include algorithms that learn from data to perform automated tasks without explicit human programming. Public health aims to protect and improve the

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Nursing

AI-Enabled Patient Profiling for Personalized Nursing Care and Health Support: Scoping Review

Background: AI-enabled patient profiling has been proposed to organize heterogeneous patient data and support personalized nursing care and health support. Given the growing use of AI, machine learning, large language mo

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Physicians

Johns Hopkins Bayview incident shows what one unapproved AI upload costs a practice

A Johns Hopkins employee put 3,182 patients' data into a consumer AI tool. Here's what that mistake would cost a small practice.

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Physicians

Physicians and health systems must align on AI to avoid repeating EHR mistakes

Early wins with ambient AI scribes, shared control over clinical decision support tools and incremental pilots can build the trust needed for a decades-long transformation.

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Physicians

Nanorobots Are Using Light and Clever Engineering to Beat Biofilms and Tackle Antimicrobial-Resistant Infectio

Healthcare technology update from the source article.

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Physicians

Experiences of Immersive Virtual Reality Among Older Adults With Physical Disabilities: Qualitative Process Ev

Background: Emerging evidence indicates that immersive virtual reality can be used therapeutically and has demonstrated efficacy in promoting the mental health of older adults. Nevertheless, there remains a paucity of qu

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Physicians

Webinar: The cybersecurity steps your practice needs to take now

In a new webinar program between Diagnostic Imaging and Medical Economics, Raj Chopra, MD and risk management expert Peter Reilly share their insights on the importance of cybersecurity, keys to effective downtime commun

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Physicians

What's the real ROI on AI scribes? The answer might surprise you

Artificial intelligence (AI) scribes have been a great tool for physicians, but are they really worth the money?

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Physicians

82% of Americans back a law requiring human review of AI claim denials, survey finds

An eHealth open enrollment survey also found 58% of insured adults delayed care over costs, and two-thirds of those who used AI for medical advice say it was sometimes wrong.

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Physicians

Erector spinae plane block may reduce opioid use

Results showed patients who received erector spinae plane block consumed fewer opioids on postoperative day 0 after minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion.“From an anesthetic standpoint, relative to co

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Dentistry

Videa Launches Ambient Coaching for Dental Practices

With the launch of Ambient Coaching, Videa moves beyond clinical documentation to turn everyday patient conversations into intelligence that helps practices deliver better care. Videa, the most adopted dental AI platform

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Dentistry

Dental Innovations Group Advances AI in Dentistry

Dentistry has never had more information available to guide patient care. Artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance diagnostic capabilities, salivary testing can provide new insights into disease risk, and digital technol

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Dentistry

Philips Sonicare introduces AI toothbrush designed to transform daily brushing habits

Philips’ new AI toothbrush uses real-time personalised guidance to help patients improve their brushing technique, remove more plaque and develop healthier oral care habits between dental appointments. Good oral health h

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Dentistry

Frights, Fangs, and Healthcare Nightmares in Winning Halloween Haikus

This year’s winning Halloween haikus take on measles, the high cost of dental care, and AI-powered insurance denials.

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Dentistry

Amann Girrbach North America and Spear Education Partner to Advance Digital Dentistry

Collaboration connects advanced clinical education with digital workflows and CAD/CAM technology to help clinicians confidently deliver complex restorative care. Amann Girrbach North America recently announced a new stra

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Pharmacy

Popular AI models get medication doses wrong, some dangerously: Doximity

Research released by the clinical AI company shows that its dose verification tool outperformed general-use AI models, which it says are rife with errors. It’s Doximity’s latest play to stand out as major AI

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Physician Assistant

PA Perspectives on Non-Opioid Pain Management

PAs in a variety of specialties including urgent care, family medicine, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and orthopaedic surgery often treat patients experiencing pain. PAs play a central role in non-opioid

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Nursing

Nursing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Algorithmic Time Machine: Safeguarding Techno‐Temporal Justice for P

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.

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Nursing

Reading the alert

Nursing expertise makes AI meaningful. It’s 3:14 AM, and a small red flag appears at the top of your patient’s chart. A number sits next to it, an early warning score, a sepsis probability, a readmission risk, a falls ri

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Digital Health

FDA, CMS scramble to avoid regulatory logjam as more states look to test AI in clinical settings

Officials are moving behind the scenes to head off a conflict brewing between states and the federal government over regulating AI.

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Digital Health

Key Healthcare Interoperability Insights From the eHealth Exchange Annual Meeting

At the eHealth Exchange Annual Meeting, healthcare leaders explored the progress, challenges, and future of nationwide health data exchange. From network trust and data quality to payer-provider interoperability, healthc

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Digital Health

Personal AI agents are coming to healthcare

In September, I reported on the phenomenon of big tech companies and startups standing up capabilities to ingest people’s medical records and other health data, so they could interpret the ...

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Digital Health

AI search tools 101: Saving time on your next application

In 2026, AI job search tools for healthcare professionals have evolved from novelty to necessity, fundamentally changing how clinicians find, apply for, and negotiate new roles. The early data is ...

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Digital Health

Small-cap Canadian healthcare firm expands AI-screening at home and abroad

Diagnos (TSXV:ADK) uses AI through its CARA platform to help detect eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration from retinal scans ・Recent approvals in Canada and ...

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Digital Health

Can AI care for us? CNN's Innovate explores the new frontier of tech in the care sector

While artificial intelligence continues to dominate global headlines amid fierce debates over the future of human jobs, a quiet revolution is happening in the United States in the homes of 73-year-old ...

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Digital Health

Fangzhou Honored with Digital Intelligence Leadership Award at Tencent Summit, Expands Healthcare AI Partnersh

Fangzhou Inc. (“Fangzhou” or the “Company”) (HKEX: 06086), a leading provider of AI‑driven Internet healthcare solutions, received the “Digital-intelligence Leadership Award-Algorithmic Unity” at the ...

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Digital Health

What Health System Teams Should Ask Before Using AI to Build Their First Digital Health Tool

If your health organization is considering AI-assisted development for a digital health tool, a faster build does not automatically mean a faster route to launch. Privacy, security, and procurement reviews […] The post W

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Digital Health

JardogsHealth Launches Its AI-Powered Care Platform to Connect Fragmented Healthcare Workflows

JardogsHealth, the AI operating layer for healthcare, today announced the launch of the JardogsHealth Care Platform, an interoperable, AI-powered platform designed to bring together the work that ...

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Digital Health

Post-Hoc Live: Is biotech’s future full of zero- and one- employee startups?

🎙️Watch today at 10:30 am ET 🦾 After Endpoints News’ AI event in New York this month, I had dinner with some of our guests. Over a few ...

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Digital Health

Covista : Can AI Help Solve the Healthcare Staffing Shortage

The Covista Care Capacity Monitor found that 76% of healthcare executives already say AI has a somewhat or very positive impact on care quality. However, clinicians have a different focus; only 34% ...

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Digital Health

Why every health care AI company must face Epic

This is the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday.

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Health OS

NYU Langone brings OpenEvidence’s clinical AI into the EHR systemwide

OpenEvidence is expanding its footprint in New York City through a partnership with NYU Langone Health, adding another marquee institution to an existing concentration of partnerships across the city's academic medical c

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Health OS

Identifying Burnout in Pediatric Clinicians Using Wearable Biometric Data: Development and Feasibility Study

Background: Addressing the burnout epidemic among health care providers remains one of the foremost challenges of modern health care systems. Past researchers have turned to passively gathered biometric data from wearabl

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Health OS

BMA laments low NHS investment in UK’s Autumn Budget

While a total of £290m was pledged to address winter pressures in the NHS and advance medical robotics, the BMA noted that NHS outlay was lower than in recent years. The post BMA laments low NHS investment in UK’s Autumn

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Health OS

Oura, UC San Diego Health collaborate to study GLP-1 outcomes using continuous smart ring data

Oura is pushing further into clinical healthcare research with its first clinical trial to study the link between smart ring data and obesity-treatment outcomes.

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