Issue №165 · 2026-10-28

Daily Briefing · Issue №165 · 2026-10-28

Physicians

When your practice's AI hits its usage limit, shadow AI becomes a HIPAA risk

When your practice's AI hits its usage limit, shadow AI becomes a HIPAA risk

As AI vendors tighten token and credit caps, staff who turn to free chatbots can expose patient data to vendors with no business associate agreement. Eight steps can keep practices protected.

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Physicians

Differential Diagnosis of Early-Stage Pulmonary Sarcoidosis With Normal Serum Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Ac

Differential Diagnosis of Early-Stage Pulmonary Sarcoidosis With Normal Serum Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Ac

Background: Early-stage pulmonary sarcoidosis with serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (sACE) activity within the normal range is difficult to distinguish from other pulmonary diseases with similar radiographic character

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Physicians

Early Prediction and Prognosis in Acute Kidney Injury Using a Biomarker-Aware Transformer: Retrospective Multi

Early Prediction and Prognosis in Acute Kidney Injury Using a Biomarker-Aware Transformer: Retrospective Multi

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common, life-threatening complication among hospitalized patients. Timely prediction is crucial for prevention, while accurate prognosis following onset is essential for guiding

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Physicians

Will AI solve burnout — or just create a new source of it?

Will AI solve burnout — or just create a new source of it?

AI advances promise to automate the mundane administrative tasks for doctors, but will the free time just mean more patients added to the schedule?

Medical Economics ↗

Physicians

Effects of Temporal Information Structure on Causal Explanations Generated by Large Language Models: Experimen

Effects of Temporal Information Structure on Causal Explanations Generated by Large Language Models: Experimen

Background: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to causal explanation in public health and epidemiology. However, recent studies suggest that LLMs exhibit instability in processing temporal information,

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Physicians

Generative Large Language Models for Psychiatric Concept Detection in Spanish-Language Electronic Health Recor

Generative Large Language Models for Psychiatric Concept Detection in Spanish-Language Electronic Health Recor

Background: The accurate detection of clinical symptoms in electronic health records (EHRs) is pivotal for advancing large-scale genetic and longitudinal studies in psychiatry. Free-text clinical notes are an essential s

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Dentistry

Are dental students being taught to question AI?

Are dental students being taught to question AI?

Nearly three quarters of medical and dental students surveyed at Queen Mary University of London felt artificial intelligence was inadequately integrated into their curriculum. The mixed-methods study, which I helped con

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Dentistry

From Plaque Disclosure to Real-Time, At-Home Feedback: How AI Is Changing Patient Coaching in Dentistry

From Plaque Disclosure to Real-Time, At-Home Feedback: How AI Is Changing Patient Coaching in Dentistry

Written by: Sarah Balaster, DMD As clinicians, we are trained to recognize findings that patients often cannot see for themselves, from plaque and biofilm accumulation to inflammation, bone loss, demineralization, and di

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Dentistry

Align Technology Pledges $1 Million to AAO Foundation

Align Technology Pledges $1 Million to AAO Foundation

Five-Year Pledge to the AAO Foundation Advances Research, Education, Mentorship, and Leadership to Help Shape the Future of Orthodontics Align Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALGN), a leading global medical device company that

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Physician Assistant

Pennsylvania Joins PA Licensure Compact, Bringing the Total to 30 Member States

Pennsylvania Joins PA Licensure Compact, Bringing the Total to 30 Member States

Adding to a year of major legislative wins, Pennsylvania has officially become the 30th state in the PA Licensure Compact with Governor Josh Shapiro's signature of HB 1961 (Act 76)! The post Pennsylvania Joins PA Licensu

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Nursing

Nursing Students Show Suboptimal AI Readiness, With Education Level and Coursework Emerging as Key Predictors

Nursing Students Show Suboptimal AI Readiness, With Education Level and Coursework Emerging as Key Predictors

A survey of 684 nursing students at two universities in Hubei Province, China, has found that their readiness to work with artificial intelligence remains suboptimal, with measurable gaps concentrated ...

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Digital Health

AI Scribes Improved Note-Taking Time but Not Productivity, Study Finds

AI Scribes Improved Note-Taking Time but Not Productivity, Study Finds

(MedPage Today) -- The use of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven ambient scribe in outpatient practice was associated with reductions in time spent taking notes and increased note length, but other productivity measu

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Digital Health

The AI Is Listening: Implications of Machine Generated Clinical Notes on Health Care

The AI Is Listening: Implications of Machine Generated Clinical Notes on Health Care

Artificial intelligence tools are being touted as a solution for so-called pajama time – the time doctors inevitably spend compiling patient notes after working hours. As hospitals increasingly deploy ...

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Digital Health

Event: ARPA-H on how AI must solve healthcare's bottlenecks

Event: ARPA-H on how AI must solve healthcare's bottlenecks

The agency’s work on rural care and cardiovascular AI highlights the need to address workflow bottlenecks and evaluate agents in real-world clinical settings, according to Dr. Bon Ku, program manager ...

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Digital Health

Microsoft's AI gives more accurate diagnoses than doctors, study finds

Microsoft's AI gives more accurate diagnoses than doctors, study finds

Microsoft says its AI system was around twice as accurate as doctors in diagnosing cases from a medical journal and from emergency room visits, as the tech giant looks to bring AI into clinical care. ...

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Digital Health

Healthcare IT Over Under – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 204

Healthcare IT Over Under – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 204

For the 204th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, we are making over/under bets on different healthcare IT topics! We have created a list of hot topics in healthcare IT, such as new health IT regulations, AI agen

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Digital Health

Suki Secures $90 Million | Confido Health Expands Agentic Operating Platform

Suki Secures $90 Million | Confido Health Expands Agentic Operating Platform

Check out today’s featured companies who have recently raised a round of funding, and be sure to check out the full list of past healthcare IT fundings. Suki Secures $90 Million to Build and Scale AI Agents for Health Sy

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Digital Health

symplr Launches AI-Powered Time and Scheduling to Move Healthcare Staffing from Reactive to Predictive

symplr Launches AI-Powered Time and Scheduling to Move Healthcare Staffing from Reactive to Predictive

PRNewswire/ -- symplr®, a leading provider of enterprise healthcare operations software, today launched symplr Time and Scheduling™, an integrated workforce management solution that combines ...

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