Daily Briefing · Issue №146 · 2026-10-09

Physicians

Comparison of Two AI Chatbots for Diagnosis and Providing Treatment Suggestions in Retinopathy of Prematurity:

• Background: Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a leading cause of preventable childhood blindness; yet, a global shortage of experienced pediatric ophthalmologists impedes timely diagnosis and treatment. While emerging

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Physicians

Why AI-ready data are becoming health care’s new digital front door

• What it takes for health systems and health plans to stay visible when an AI model is the one making the recommendation.

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Physicians

Caribou Bio’s Journey With Off-the-Shelf Cell Therapy Reaches the End of the Road

• Caribou Biosciences is stopping work on its two remaining cancer cell therapies and exploring strategic alternatives for the business. The move follows the CRISPR biotech company’s failure to secure financing for its cli

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Physicians

Pill Peddling Doc Convicted; Digital Schizophrenia Therapeutic Cleared; AI Anxiety

• (MedPage Today) -- Jonathan Decker, MD, of Michigan, was convicted of peddling more than 2 million stimulant pills, including amphetamine-dextroamphetamine salts (Adderall), on the Done ADHD telehealth platform, accordin

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Physicians

University of Delaware launches AI institute focused on mobility, rehabilitation care

• Researchers at the University of Delaware have launched a new artificial intelligence institute aimed at developing technology that can assist clinicians and physical therapists in delivering more ...

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Physicians

AI and the Reproduction of Health Inequity: Redistribution-Translation-Accumulation Framework

• AI is increasingly embedded in the institutions and environments that shape health. Yet current frameworks for understanding its implications for health equity remain underdeveloped. The social determinants of health tra

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Physicians

Effects of Virtual Reality on Pain, Anxiety, and Fear During Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy: Open-Label

• Background: Thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is a commonly used diagnostic procedure in patients with suspected thyroid cancer; however, it may induce pain, anxiety, and fear during the procedure. Objective:

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Dentistry

Zentist Launches Vault for Dental Lockbox Automation

• New solution helps DSOs eliminate manual check handling, EOB processing, and lockbox workflows while improving visibility across the revenue cycle. Zentist recently announced the launch of Vault, a new lockbox automation

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Pharmacy

Utah expands healthcare AI sandbox with August AI, Nolla Health pilots, adds third-party evaluators

• Utah is expanding the state's AI regulatory sandbox program with new pilots to test AI-supported prescription renewals, dermatology and physical therapy, while adding physician oversight and independent third-party evalu

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Pharmacy

RFK Jr.'s Embrace of AI Confounds Some MAHA Allies and Medical Experts

• (MedPage Today) -- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has built a national following by channeling the energy of Americans who are worried about the influence of corporations, including makers of vaccines, drugs, pro

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Pharmacy

Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to create a ‘virtual cell’

• Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into an initiative to create a "virtual cell" that researchers can use to combat disease, as reported earlier by Reu

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Physician Assistant

‘You’re Not Finished Yet’: Samora Charles on Becoming a PA

• October 6-12 is PA Week, and The Clinical Advisor is highlighting Samora Charles, PA-C. As a surgical physician associate, author, cofounder of the ...

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Nursing

ThinkAndor® Now Available in Epic Toolbox for Ambient Nursing Documentation

• Andor Health, the AI-native healthcare infrastructure setting the standard, announces that ThinkAndor® is now Epic Toolbox designated for Ambient Voice Recognition: Nursing Flowsheets.

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Digital Health

InterSystems Talks on Health Data Standards, Quality, and AI

• InterSystems is the data Goliath of health care, present in 20 countries and processing two-thirds of all medical records in the United States. But even InterSystems has to evolve to deal with the challenges of health ca

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Digital Health

AI-scribing app offered to patients with rare diseases

• People with rare diseases are being offered two years’ free access to an AI app that records appointments and creates written summaries.

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Digital Health

UT symposium explores AI’s growing role in future of health care

• Some of the biggest names in health care, technology and research gathered at the University of Texas this week to discuss how artificial intelligence is already changing the way patients receive ...

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Digital Health

Teladoc Health Adds Contactless Vitals and Ambient AI Scribe to Virtual Visit Platform

• Teladoc Health announced Wednesday that it is launching two new AI-powered capabilities built into its Solo smart care platform for hospitals and health systems to be used during virtual visits. The post Teladoc Health A

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Digital Health

Constant Vigilance is the Watchword for Healthcare AI Governance

• [Sponsored] Sponsored by Cotiviti, a webinar addressing the challenges of AI implementation and governance offered insights based on findings from the Healthcare AI Readiness Index. The post Constant Vigilance is the Wat

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Digital Health

Envisioning a Digitally Enabled Canada: Digital Health Canada Future Leader Award Winner Brian Lo

• For Brian Lo, the future of digital health is about more than technology. As Project Manager, Strategic Digital & AI Initiatives at Unity Health Toronto, he is focused on a […] The post Envisioning a Digitally Enabled Ca

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Digital Health

The new voice in health system AI decisions

• Workers at Kaiser, HCA and Mayo Clinic shape AI investments and tool design, giving voice health system decisions in technology adoption.

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Digital Health

Simulation and AI reshape how health care students rehearse hard decisions safely

• A George Mason University scoping review of 83 studies finds that simulation, mobile platforms, and generative AI are transforming case-based learning in health care education, but only when ...

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Health OS

STAT+: Why health AI pilots in Utah may be on a collision course with the FDA

• In this edition of STAT's AIP Prognosis: Unresolved regulatory questions around Utah's AI sandbox, and more health AI news.

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