Issue №175 · 2026-11-07

Daily Briefing · Issue №175 · 2026-11-07

Physicians

Evaluating an AI-Powered Patient Simulator for Communication Skills Training: One-Year Randomized Controlled T

Background: Clinical communication skills are a core yet complex competency in medical education and practice. However, early-stage medical students often struggle to apply communication frameworks in practice due to lim

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Physicians

STAT+: A possible comeback for a failed sickle cell gene therapy

Three years ago, a trial for a sickle cell gene-editing therapy a decade in the making ended abruptly after the first patient suffered a serious adverse event. Now, the therapy…

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Physicians

American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification: Hybrid Machine Learning–Large Language M

Background: The American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status (ASA-PS) classification system fundamentally shapes perioperative care delivery but suffers from poor interrater reliability (0.4‐0.6). Machine learni

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Physicians

Miscarriage Risk Prediction for Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Who Achieve Clinical Pregnancy After Fres

Background: Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) who achieve clinical pregnancy following fresh in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) carry an elevated miscarriage risk. However, ind

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Physicians

Seven new tumor cases reported among patients on Novartis' Zolgensma gene therapy

Nine patients who have received Novartis' spinal muscular atrophy gene therapy Zolgensma have developed tumors following their treatment, the company confirmed Thursday. Seven of those cases were disclosed for the first

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Physicians

AI scribes, hidden revenue gaps and money-talk stress: What's bubbling under the surface at your practice?

Free Medical Economics Practice Academy virtual event on Nov. 19 brings together experts sharing advice you can use right now.

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Physicians

STAT+: Novartis cites cases of previously unknown tumors possibly tied to its SMA gene therapy

Novartis has acknowledged seven previously unknown instances in which tumors were found in children who were treated with its spinal muscular atrophy therapy, Zolgensma.

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Physician Assistant

Arkansas PAs Recognized Under Medicaid as Rendering and Billing Providers, PCPs

Recent policy changes permit physician associates in Arkansas to act as rendering and billing providers for direct health care reimbursement.

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Nursing

Leveraging AI to Integrate and Personalize Hospital Discharge Preparation: A Discursive Paper

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.

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Digital Health

How Rhapsody Is Advancing Healthcare AI Governance and Patient Identity Management

At Rhapsody Connect, healthcare leaders shared how AI and interoperability are helping organizations tackle some of healthcare’s toughest data challenges. From improving patient identity management and patient matching t

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Digital Health

Expert Perspectives on Transparency and Trust in AI-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems for Chest X-Ray Di

Background: The integration of AI-based Clinical Decision Support Systems (AI-CDSS) into clinical practice has expanded rapidly, particularly in medical imaging. Beyond algorithmic performance, growing evidence suggests

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Digital Health

Why Healthcare Can’t Skip Steps on the Way to Conversational AI

Corti's Dan Engel explains why healthcare cannot skip steps to conversational AI, detailing the need for clinical accuracy, intent recognition, and EHR integration.

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Digital Health

Ellipsis Health buys Kouper Health to act on AI voice calls

Ellipsis Health, a startup developing voice AI for healthcare, has acquired another company as demand for AI that can call patients heats up, Endpoints News learned exclusively. Ellipsis, which uses voice AI to screen an

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Digital Health

Workforce Perceptions of a Conceptual Hospital-at-Home Digital Twin: Qualitative Study

Background: Hospital-at-home (HaH) services are transformative for delivering acute care in a patient’s home, with support from a multidisciplinary team and remote monitoring technologies, and there is a growing demand f

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Digital Health

What the midterms could mean for the future of health AI

The midterms highlighted the negative sentiment around AI across the U.S. How will those attitudes trickle down to legislating AI use in health care?

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Digital Health

Consumer AI Is Healthcare’s New Front Door. Who’s Deciding What Happens There?

One in four U.S. adults, more than 66 million people, have now used AI tools or chatbots for health information or advice according to a West Health–Gallup survey released in April. Most aren't using ...

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Digital Health

The future of health care starts with prevention, not AI

AI alone won't fix health care, a hospital executive from Brazil told the crowd at Newsweek's AI Health Summit.

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Digital Health

TeleAI Officially Launches Privacy-First AI Camera for Sensitive Public and Healthcare Spaces

The Institute of Artificial Intelligence of China Telecom has launched groundbreaking “token-stream” technology to detect safety incidents in sensitive spaces—from public restrooms to elderly care ...

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Digital Health

Americans wary of AI for medical care and insurance claims

Most Americans have qualms about using AI in healthcare for tasks such as diagnosis and treatment, Pew Research poll finds.

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Digital Health

Health Care Outperforms Broader Market on AI Rotation - Health Care Roundup

Health-care companies fell, but not by as much as the broad market, as traders rotated out of artificial-intelligence bets and into defensive sectors. Health insurer Cigna Group slipped even after it ...

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Digital Health

The Dangerous Illusion of the “Two-Week AI Expert”: A Call to Action Against Superficial Medical Education

If we choose the quick fix, let us be honest about the consequences: when an unexamined algorithm leads to a fatal diagnostic error, the blame will not lie with the black box. It will lie with us, because we were too rec

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Digital Health

The AI-Native Clinician Is Already Here. Medical Education and Health Systems Need to Catch Up.

[Sponsored] Medical students, residents, and fellows are not waiting for formal guidance on artificial intelligence before putting it to use. The post The AI-Native Clinician Is Already Here. Medical Education and Health

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Health OS

PulseAI’s arrhythmia analysis model for wearables lands FDA clearance

The company’s AI model analyses ECG data from compatible devices to identify heart arrhythmias, to give clinicians the ability to assess stroke risk. The post PulseAI’s arrhythmia analysis model for wearables lands FDA c

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Health OS

Mayo Clinic Platform launches AI tool to streamline clinical decision-making

Clinicians can now query an AI chatbot built on Mayo Clinic's medical knowledge base to help with diagnosis and care decisions across more than 35 specialties.

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Health OS

Low-Grade Proteinuria Linked to Poor Outcomes in IgA Nephropathy

(MedPage Today) -- In immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy, proteinuria levels below 1.0 g/day have long been viewed as relatively low risk for kidney disease progression. Recent studies have challenged this assumption, ho

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Health OS

Fairview Health Services Partners with hellocare.ai to Expand Enterprise Virtual Care and Bring Connected Care

Minneapolis, MN and Clearwater, FL — Fairview Health Services and hellocare.ai today announced an enterprise partnership to expand virtual care capabilities across Fairview’s inpatient environments, including a dedicated

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