Issue №160 · 2026-10-23

Daily Briefing · Issue №160 · 2026-10-23

Physicians

Is your AI scribe worth it? 3 questions to ask before and after you buy

An AI scribe's price tag is only part of its cost. A three-part framework helps physicians and practice managers measure return on investment, clinician well-being and the time it really takes to get the tool working.

Medical Economics ↗

Physicians

Applying the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model to a Virtual Reality–Assisted Cognitive Health Edu

Background: Uptake of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia screening among community-dwelling older adults remains suboptimal globally and is shaped by limited dementia literacy, fear, stigma, and difficulties na

Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Human Factors ↗

Physicians

Patient, implant factors associated with dislocation after RSA

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A multicenter machine learning analysis identified several patient risk factors as being associated with instability after reverse shoulder arthroplasty.“We have a strong understanding of th

Healio Orthopedics ↗

Physicians

16 AI features already in your EHR, and how to use them

Ambient scribes, chart summaries and AI agents are arriving in routine EHR updates. Here's what to switch on, test and watch.

Physicians Practice ↗

Dentistry

3DDX launches AI Planning for implant cases

BOSTON, US: 3DDX, a US-based digital dentistry company, has announced the launch of 3DDX AI Planning, the first artificial intelligence (AI) implant planning solution with a human in the loop. 3DDX AI Planning pairs AI-g

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Dentistry

Can AI Help General Dentists Recognize Difficult Root Canals Before Treatment Begins?

For patients in rural and underserved communities, getting a root canal can involve more than finding a dentist willing to perform the procedure. When a case is unusually complex, access to an endodontist may require a l

Healthcare Business Today ↗

Dentistry

Johannes Krug & Wolf-Dieter Perlitz on DS Core, AI, and Connected Dentistry

At Dentsply Sirona World 2026, Dentistry Today Editor-in-Chief Dr. Paul Feuerstein speaks with Johannes Krug, Vice President of Connected Technology Solutions, and Wolf-Dieter Perlitz, Senior Director of DS Core, about t

Dentistry Today ↗

Pharmacy

AMA Calls for Risk-Based GenAI Oversight to Protect Patients and Support Responsible Innovation

As generative AI moves toward performing increasingly consequential clinical functions, the American Medical Association (AMA) is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to address a foundational question: Who is re

MedCity News ↗

Pharmacy

5 takeaways from Endpoints' AI Day: Agents, AI slop, biosecurity

In 2024, I started Endpoints News’ flagship AI event because I didn’t see anything like it. Biopharma conferences scratched the surface with a stray AI panel. Machine learning events like NeurIPS didn't gather the whole

Endpoints News ↗

Pharmacy

‘Be partners’ in combating medical misinformation

Patients are increasingly turning to AI, social media and online searches for information about their health and medications, bringing both useful information and misinformation into the exam room.Rather than viewing thi

Healio Primary Care ↗

Physician Assistant

PA Week Proclamations Surpass 2025 Numbers, Signaling Growing Support for the Profession

This PA Week (October 6-12), leaders from across the country took time to celebrate the more than 200,000 PAs who care for patients each day. In total, 26 governors, mayors, and other officials issued PA Week proclamatio

American Academy of PAs (AAPA) News ↗

Physician Assistant

Colorectal Cancer Screening: Evidence-Based Resources, from Risk Assessment to Screening Completion

Created with support from Exact Sciences is now Abbott, AAPA’s new Colorectal Cancer Screening Toolkit gives clinicians practical, evidence-based resources for understanding CRC risk, comparing screening options, applyin

American Academy of PAs (AAPA) News ↗

Nursing

Conditions and Pathways for Integrating Smart Care Robots Into Long-Term Care Facilities: Qualitative Study Fr

Background: Smart care robots are increasingly viewed as a potential way to address care burden and support care quality in long-term care facilities. However, their integration into routine care practice remains limited

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Digital Health

MRO’s Prodigy Brings AI-Human Collaboration to Clinical Data Abstraction

Most customer-grade AI tools are trained on the premise that finding something is better than finding nothing. To please the end user, the model will present whatever data results it can. But MRO‘s Prodigy tool, which pe

Healthcare IT Today ↗

Digital Health

Development and Validation of the Large Language Model Privacy Concern Assessment Questionnaire: Psychometric

Background: Privacy concerns represent a primary barrier to the adoption of large language model (LLM) applications, particularly in sensitive domains such as health care. Although a growing body of survey-based research

Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Human Factors ↗

Digital Health

Interpreting Agreement in AI-Assisted American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Classification

This letter comments on two aspects of the study by Lin et al. We discuss how agreement in ordinal ASA classification is reported and how disagreements across ASA classes could be presented more clearly. We also address

JMIR Medical Informatics ↗

Digital Health

Capacity, Collaboration, and Thematic Structure in Health AI Research Over the Past Decade in the Gulf Coopera

Background: Health AI investment is accelerating across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), yet the region’s health AI research output has never been systematically quantified. National research capacity is a structural

JMIR Medical Informatics ↗

Digital Health

Asia's healthcare AI future starts with getting data right

Interoperability and trusted health information could help Asian healthcare systems integrate AI into clinical workflows and develop new models of care.

Bing News — Nursing Tech & Devices ↗

Digital Health

Virtual summit addresses artificial intelligence and racial bias in health care

Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara of Wayne State University's "Held to the Light" summit discusses the presence of racial bias in healthcare.

Bing News — Nursing AI & Informatics ↗

Digital Health

How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Preventive Care Across the U.S.

U.S. health spending hit $5.3 trillion in 2024, and Medicare Advantage enrolls 35.2 million people today, equal to 55% of those eligible. For 2026, KFF estimates Medicare Advantage payments will hit ...

Bing News — Nursing AI & Informatics ↗

Digital Health

Health Care Down on Rotation to AI Bets - Health Care Roundup

Health-care companies fell as traders rotated back into artificial-intelligence bets from the defensive parts of the sector. Elevance Health fell as traders weighed the health insurer's improvement in ...

Bing News — Nursing AI & Informatics ↗

Digital Health

AI Medicare program delayed medical care for Ohioans, records show

Ohio and five others states saw myriad issues in the first months of the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction model, a federal pilot program.

Bing News — Nursing AI & Informatics ↗

Digital Health

EXPERT on Call – HUMANIZING HEALTHCARE – The Judgment Gap

How AI Will Make Human Expertise the New Differentiator in Healthcare Marketing There is a question we keep returning to ...

PM360 ↗

Digital Health

HealthcareWATCH

DISCOVERIES AND INNOVATIONS AI Shows Promise in Neonatal Respiratory Care Digital technologies and artificial intelligence are becoming increasingly important in ...

PM360 ↗

Health OS

Doximity adds UpToDate to Ask in push to become doctors’ go-to AI platform

Doximity inked a partnership with Wolters Kluwer to embed UpToDate's evidence-based clinical content directly within Doximity Ask, the company’s AI clinical decision support tool.

Fierce Healthcare ↗