Daily Briefing · Issue №174 · 2026-11-06

Physicians

Smillin.Physicians

Machine learning links gait patterns to osteoarthritis severity

• Unsupervised machine learning identified a gait loading pattern associated with worse clinical and radiographic outcomes in patients with knee osteoarthritis and high BMI, according to data published in Arthritis Care &

Healio Orthopedics ↗

Physicians

Smillin.Physicians

Development and Validation of a Mixture-of-Experts–Based Model for Postoperative In-Hospital Mortality Risk As

• Background: Postoperative mortality remains a key indicator of surgical safety and quality. Traditional risk models based on static preoperative or intraoperative variables often fail to capture dynamic physiological cha

Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) ↗

Physicians

Smillin.Physicians

Real-World Use and Expert-Guided Optimization of a Large Language Model–Based Pediatric Health Assistant: Retr

• Background: Pediatric care resources are limited and unevenly distributed in many health systems. Caregivers increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) for children’s health information, but real-world evidence on

Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) ↗

Physicians

Smillin.Physicians

Willis Knighton Health Uses Ambient AI from Commure to Reduce Physician Burden

• Before standardizing on MEDITECH for their EHR, the Louisiana provider Willis Knighton Health had 140 different instances of EHRs. Senior VP and CIO Mark Galea said it was critical to get everyone on a single EHR. But he

Healthcare IT Today ↗

Physicians

Smillin.Physicians

How Automation and AI are Quietly Rebuilding the Hospital Back Office

• The following is a guest article by Paige Schwein, Vice President, Technology Services at Healthrise Ask most people where AI is changing healthcare, and they’ll describe a surgical robot or an algorithm that reads scans

Healthcare IT Today ↗

Pharmacy

Smillin.Pharmacy

STAT+: The biotech startups skipping AI for drug discovery

• In this edition of AI Prognosis: These biotech startups don't think drug discovery is where AI can make the biggest difference.

STAT Health Tech ↗

Nursing

Smillin.Nursing

Creative Solutions in Healthcare Wins Implementation of the Year at Inaugural exacare ai Awards

• Creative Solutions in Healthcare, one of the largest skilled nursing providers in the nation, has received the Implementation of the Year Award at the inaugural exacare ai Awards, recognizing a record ...

Bing News — Nursing AI & Informatics ↗

Digital Health

Smillin.Digital Health

SFC Capital backs Nayara's AI platform for patient care

• UK-based healthtech company develops AI-powered companions designed to support patients between clinical appointments and help healthcare teams manage routine enquiries and workloads.

Bing News — Nursing Tech & Devices ↗

Digital Health

Smillin.Digital Health

People want human oversight of health care AI as New York weighs data center growth

• The findings add context to New York’s debate over the data centers supporting AI and other digital services. While communities weigh electricity demand, water use and economic benefits, the survey ...

Bing News — Nursing Tech & Devices ↗

Digital Health

Smillin.Digital Health

Health secretary says AI could ‘reduce certain areas’ of NHS staffing

• The health secretary announced that the NHS 10-year workforce plan will be published in the new year and AI could reduce NHS staffing.

Digital Health News ↗

Digital Health

Smillin.Digital Health

Researchers Receive $4M NIH Grant to Build AI Model To Prevent Kidney Injury

• Acute kidney injury is a common and sometimes serious surgical complication. Researchers at New York’s Mount Sinai health system are building AI models to better predict who’s most at risk, so that healthcare providers c

MedCity News ↗

Digital Health

Smillin.Digital Health

Payer Outsourcing Enters a Reset as AI Rewrites Health Plan Economics, Black Book finds

• New 2027 outlook finds payer leaders reassessing outsourcing, offshoring, nearshoring and insourcing as automation, interoperability mandates and rising administrative expense redefine the economics ...

Bing News — Nursing Tech & Devices ↗

Digital Health

Smillin.Digital Health

How Healthcare AI's Early Wins Can Have A Lasting Impact

• Humans must remain at the center of healthcare delivery, capitalizing on the benefits technology offers while keeping it in an appropriate context.

Bing News — Nursing Tech & Devices ↗

Health OS

Smillin.Health OS

Claim Clarity and the Need for Clinical Context in Healthcare AI

• Claim Clarity As artificial intelligence becomes more common in healthcare, a key question is whether a system can retrieve information and show why it may apply to a particular case. In workers’ compensation, reviews ca

Healthcare Business Today ↗

Health OS

Smillin.Health OS

Wearables, AI and women's heart health

• Wearables are giving us more health data than ever before. But can that data actually improve care? This week on "Podnosis," we explore the promise of wearables and AI for women's heart health, and what it takes to turn

Fierce Healthcare ↗

Health OS

Smillin.Health OS

STAT+: As more doctors consult chatbots, health systems can block them — or buy in

• As hundreds of thousands of doctors consult AI chatbots to make care decisions, health systems see new risks to patients' health data.

STAT Health Tech ↗