Issue №101 · 2026-08-23

Daily Briefing · Issue №101 · 2026-08-23

Physicians

Correction: Enhanced Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Ischemic Stroke Through Electronic Med

  • Healthcare technology update from the source article.
JMIR Medical Informatics
Physicians

Effects of Type and Timing of Clinician-Facing AI Support on Patient Trust in Medical Consultations: 2 Vignett

  • Background: AI-based clinical decision support systems are increasingly integrated into medical practice, creating hybrid decision-making processes in which physicians and AI systems jointly contribute to clinical judgme
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
Physicians

Social Determinants of Digital Health Intervention Use in China: National Cross-Sectional Study

  • Background: Digital health interventions (DHIs), including telemedicine and AI-enabled health tools, are increasingly integrated into health care systems worldwide. While these technologies have the potential to improve
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
Physicians

Ethics of Autonomous AI Clinical Trials: Delphi Study

  • Background: Safe implementation of autonomous AI in medicine requires rigorous evaluation through clinical trials. The 7 guiding principles for ethical clinical research endorsed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
Physicians

AI and Patient Trust in Health Care

  • Health care providers are among the most trusted professionals, and they are rapidly adapting to AI integration in medicine. Authors Hou et al reviewed and synthesized qualitative studies of patient concerns regarding AI
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
Physicians

Co-Designing a Clinician-Centered Video Gait Assessment System for Cerebral Palsy Based on the Framework for C

  • Background: Clinical gait assessment is essential for monitoring functional progress in children with cerebral palsy (CP); however, traditional visual observation remains inherently subjective and labor-intensive. Althou
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
Physicians

Imperial launches centre to advance surgical robotics

  • Imperial College London has launched a new centre to accelerate innovation in surgical robotics and bring new tech into clinical use quicker.
Digital Health News
Physicians

FDA asks for feedback on AI regulation concept

  • The FDA is seeking feedback on a potential way of regulating medical devices equipped with generative AI features, informed by the process of training human clinicians.Described as a “competency-based approach,” the proc
Healio Primary Care
Physicians

Most AI tools cleared by FDA were not tested on clinical outcomes

  • Of more than 1,300 AI medical devices cleared by the FDA, only three tested for patient-centered outcomes like death and morbidity, data show.AI integration into healthcare is rapidly progressing. Medical societies like
Healio Primary Care
Physicians

Trump picks Heidi Overton to lead the FDA; CMS tightens prior auth disclosure rules; JAMA authors say AI alone

  • The top news stories in medicine this week.
Medical Economics
Physicians

Is your ACO becoming the Blockbuster Video of value-based care?

  • Retrospective data are not irrelevant, but primary care needs AI and advanced analytics to treat real-world patients in real time.
Medical Economics
Physicians

Siemens Healthineers, Philips awarded ARPA-H funds for stroke robots

  • The federal program aims to get stroke patients treated faster through autonomous mechanical thrombectomy. Several organizations will share up to $175.3 million in funding to develop robots.
MedTech Dive
Physicians

Beyond The Honeymoon Period: Ambient AI And The Next Frontier

  • For the past few years, ambient AI tools have received a largely warm reception in healthcare settings. As the technology was designed to passively listen to physician-patient conversations and ...
Bing News — Nursing Ambient AI
Physicians

Evaluation of Prompt Design and Internal Reasoning in Chatbot-Based Medical History Taking: Simulation Study

  • Background: A persistent discrepancy exists between patient-reported information and physician documentation. While conversational agents have been developed to collect medical histories prior to consultations, existing
JMIR Medical Informatics
Physicians

CMS tech rules and AI benefits for primary care, patients and ‘touchless’ prior auths

  • A physician forecasts the effects of artificial intelligence as Medicare sets new rules in 2027.
Medical Economics
Dentistry

Curve Dental Forecasts Major Dental Software Consolidation

  • As Curve Approaches $100 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue, Chairman and CEO Dave Cormack Predicts Major Shift in Dental Software Market Curve Dental, the leader in modern AI-driven all-in-one dental software with an i
Dentistry Today
Dentistry

AI May Make Chairside Diagnosis of Cognitive Impairment a Reality

  • New research suggests AI can analyze subtle changes in speech during routine patient-provider interactions to identify early signs of cognitive impairment, potentially giving health and dental professionals a new tool fo
Decisions in Dentistry
Pharmacy

Blue Matter— AI Transformation in Drug Discovery – Life Sciences Today Podcast Episode 75

  • We’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Tara Austraat-Churik, Partner at Blue Matter Consulting. Her background spans IBM Watson Health, w
Healthcare IT Today
Pharmacy

STAT+: Are cancer patients getting too much drug?

  • Moderna's stunning surge and drop, AI in scientific writing, and more biotech news from The Readout
Stat News - Pharma
Physician Assistant

Meet the 2026 recipients of the Michael Powe Leadership in Advocacy Scholarship

  • Meet the 2026 recipients of the Michael Powe Leadership in Advocacy Scholarship This scholarship is awarded to PA Student Advocates and Leaders August 21, 2026 Michael Powe, AAPA’s former vice […] The post Meet the 2026
American Academy of PAs (AAPA) News
Digital Health

Patient Stratification for Improving Acute Chest Pain Management and Mitigating Emergency Department Crowding:

  • Background: Acute chest pain (ACP) is one of the most common chief complaints in the emergency department (ED), accounting for approximately 8% of all ED visits. However, among patients presenting with chest pain suggest
JMIR Medical Informatics
Digital Health

Integrated Clinical-Molecular Risk Stratification in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma: Machine Learning Survival

  • Background: The clinical outcomes of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are highly heterogeneous. While clinical indices like the international prognostic index (IPI) are widely used, their predictive accuracy remains
JMIR Medical Informatics
Digital Health

AI Slop, Poor Patient Design, and Gripes – Fun Friday

  • Happy Friday to everyone out there! We hope you had an amazing week and are ready for a wonderful weekend. My weekend is going to be cut short since my son is doing a poster session at a chemistry conference in Chicago.
Healthcare IT Today
Digital Health

This Week In Epic News: FTC Probe, AI Agents & More

  • Epic faced an FTC antitrust probe this week, but that didn’t stop the EHR giant from unveiling a wave of new AI tools at its annual conference. The post This Week In Epic News: FTC Probe, AI Agents & More appeared first
MedCity News
Health OS

Healthcare AI Should Help Experts Work Faster, Not Replace Their Judgment

  • Healthcare already has more knowledge than most people can realistically navigate. Research papers, genomic databases, clinical guidelines, public health dashboards, internal records, metadata systems, and regulatory gui
Healthcare Business Today
Health OS

Weekly Rundown: Expressable joins Amazon's health conditions program; Function launches data connector for AI

  • Stay up to date on the latest in health tech, digital health and health AI news with this weekly brief.
Fierce Healthcare
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