Daily Briefing · Issue №143 · 2026-10-06

Physicians

'Better Informed Than Any Doctor in the Country': What We Heard This Week

• (MedPage Today) -- "It can give you a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country." -- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appearing to suggest that patients should have more confidence

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Physician Assistant

Physician assistants, nurse practitioners often act as ‘ground troops’ in psoriasis care

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Nursing

Pro Kpo AI Opens for Business to Automate Healthcare Scheduling and Reduce Administrative Costs

• Massachusetts company helps care providers reduce manual coordination and give nursing home administrators and home ...

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Digital Health

Epicrispr builds case for FSHD treatment with updated data for EPI-321

• Epicrispr Biotechnologies continued to show encouraging findings from testing of its epigenetic editing treatment for the genetic muscle disease facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Twelve people have been dosed with

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Digital Health

Health care's emerging risk: unauthorized AI agents

• Health systems that are scrambling to protect themselves against cyberattacks and data breaches have a new problem: unchecked AI agents. The big picture: The expanding use of agents in health care is ...

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Digital Health

Healthcare Privacy Leaders Look to AI to Improve Monitoring and Data Breach Investigations

• At a recent symposium on privacy, experts discussed how AI supports a faster and oftentimes more insightful approach to data security, while identifying which privacy risks healthcare organizations must monitor. The post

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Digital Health

Bonus Features – October 4, 2026 – 75% of orgs are optimistic about AI, 75% of orgs also say AI and automation

• Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more

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