Issue №181 · 2026-11-13

Daily Briefing · Issue №181 · 2026-11-13

Physicians

Imaging-Based AI for Predicting Pathological Complete Response in Esophageal Cancer After Neoadjuvant Therapy:

Background: Imaging-based AI may help predict pathological complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal cancer. However, an encouraging average diagnostic performance does not establish reliable perfo

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Physicians

Explainable AI to Guide the Design of Interpretable Prediction Models From High-Dimensional Data, Applied to F

Background: Transparent prediction models, such as Cox regression, remain the standard for clinical risk prediction. However, they are challenging to design optimally by hand when tens or even hundreds of features requir

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Physicians

VectorY bags $83.5M for antibody gene therapies in neurodegenerative diseases

VectorY Therapeutics added €74.5 million ($83.5 million) to its Series A to fund a gene therapy that makes antibodies in the brain. The biotech’s lead asset VTx-002 is in a

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Physicians

Despite Rapid Adoption, We Don't Know If Most AI Devices Improve Patient Outcomes

Healthcare technology update from the source article.

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Physicians

Primary Care Patients Report Cautious Perceptions Toward Portal Artificial Intelligence Chatbots

A cross-sectional survey of active patient portal users evaluated perceptions of a hypothetical primary care artificial intelligence chatbot prior to rollout.

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Physicians

13 rules before an AI agent gets its own login at your practice

AI agents now log in to EHRs and payer portals on their own. Set these 13 rules first so a helpful bot doesn't become your next breach.

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Physicians

Q&A: Slit lamp headset could enable remote eye examination

Graduates of Texas A&M University are developing a “goggle-based headset” that could enable remote eye examinations in clinical settings where a slit lamp, and the expertise to use it, are unavailable, according to a pre

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Dentistry

How to Use AI Agents for Dental Practices | Build Workflows for Your Team

Running a dental practice means a long list of small follow-ups every day. Canceled slots need refilling, overdue patients need reminders, and lab cases need checking before the patient comes in. AI agents can pick up a

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Dentistry

Kairos Health Helps Dental Practices Turn Patient Follow-Ups Into Scheduled Appointments

Kairos Health, a Y Combinator-backed company, offers AI voice agents that help dental practices follow up with patients, manage incoming calls, and fill their schedules. Kairos’ outbound agents contact patients about uns

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Pharmacy

AI chatbot treatment recommendations are swayed by drug ads

In a controlled test of 12 AI models across 33 physician-written clinical cases, a clearly labeled pharmaceutical ad raised the share of responses choosing the advertised drug from 35% to 47.6%.

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Nursing

Veterans Day: How the VA is using AI to support care for vets

A retired Navy Nurse Corps officer discusses suicide risk screening, clinical documentation – and where providers should draw the line on artificial intelligence.

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Nursing

Artificial Intelligence Technologies Supporting Clinical Judgement in Nursing: A Scoping Review

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 82, Issue 12, Page 10155-10170, December 2026.

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Nursing

Letter to the Editor: Preserving Bedside Verification and Clinical Uncertainty in AI‐Enabled Nursing Handover

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 82, Issue 12, Page 10610-10611, December 2026.

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Nursing

Nor Cal Sutter Nurses Launch Week Of Pickets Over AI Fears, Staffing Fights

Nurses and health care workers at 13 Sutter Health facilities across Northern California are holding informational pickets this week, saying three months of contract talks have produced almost nothing ...

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Nursing

Ethical Risks and Governance Directions of Conversational Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Triage and Patien

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 82, Issue 12, Page 10083-10107, December 2026.

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Nursing

Letter to the Editor: From Visible to Implicit Workload: Rethinking AI‐Based Analysis of Emergency Nursing Wor

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 82, Issue 12, Page 10612-10613, December 2026.

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Nursing

‘Trust Is the First Algorithm’: A Socio‐Technical Framework for Generative AI Integration in a High‐Stakes, Re

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 82, Issue 12, Page 10390-10402, December 2026.

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Nursing

Integrating Large Language Models Into Patient Health Education: Interview Study Among Nurses

Background: Large language models (LLMs) have shown potential to support patient education, improve information accessibility, and assist with repetitive clinical communication tasks. However, the clinical integration of

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Digital Health

Performance of a Large Language Model for Predicting Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes in Knee Osteoarthritis

Background: Large language models (LLMs) can extract information from unstructured clinical text, but it remains unclear whether their ability to assess current status translates into reliable predictions of longitudinal

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Digital Health

Autonomous AI Is Transforming Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management

AKASA deploys generative AI along with human expertise to apply AI to the health care revenue cycle. In a recent interview at the AHIMA Annual Conference, we explore the benefits offered by AI through Dr. Nirav Kamdar, V

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Digital Health

The ‘AI Saves Lives’ Trap at HIMSS Eastern Canada 2026

The narrative that AI instantly saves lives is dangerously pushing IT leaders into a costly trap of rushed, poorly planned technology deployments. Learn why successful clinical AI implementations require leaders to move

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Digital Health

Healthcare AI: Is Your Patient Data Ready?

The following is a guest article by Bob Stanley director of special projects at Melissa Excellent AI models can’t win if the patient is not represented accurately AI has arrived in healthcare, and adoption has scaled up

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Digital Health

Is AI Really Saving Hospitals Money? A New Study Raises Questions About the Cost of AI-Driven Care

Healthcare systems are investing in AI to streamline workflows and save money, but a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that AI-generated care plans might actually cost far more than those ordered by

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Digital Health

Healthcare Professionals Are Ready for More AI: 69% Want Expanded Use as Care Grows More Complex

Nearly 70% of survey respondents believe AI can play a moderate or significant role in improving care delivery, care coordination, or operational efficiency and 69% want their organization's use of AI ...

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Digital Health

AI in healthcare summit held at University of Cincinnati

As health care costs continue to climb, professionals in artificial intelligence and health care gathered at the University of Cincinnati to discuss how the technology could reshape medicine.

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Digital Health

athenahealth Thrive 2026: Connecting athenaOne to Epic and Bringing Claude AI to the Patient Portal

Discover how a new interoperability partnership between athenahealth and Epic uses the 360X standard to replace manual work with direct secure messaging, accelerating referrals and specialty access for patients.

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Digital Health

The Executive Guide to Scaling Agentic AI in Healthcare

The following is a guest article by Michael Serbinis, Founder and CEO at League Summary Healthcare has always met rising demand by adding people, but that model no longer works, and AI agents that give every member and p

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Digital Health

TytoCare Launches AI Care Enablement Platform and Unveils Tyto Health Hub™ to Manage High-Risk, High-Cost Pati

TytoCare today launched its AI Care Enablement Platform and unveiled Tyto Health Hub™, a new AI-powered home companion with environmental sensing, conversational daily check-ins and step-by-step exam ...

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Health OS

STAT+: New documents raise more questions about Medicare’s AI prior-authorization experiment

In this edition of STAT Health Tech: Oura's big bet on AI, a 'rumble strip' for clinical chatbots, and questions around Medicare’s AI prior-auth experiment.

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Health OS

Google's Gemini is getting in the health AI game

This week, Google launched Gemini for healthcare. Google has long been a fixture in health, helping hospitals store data in Google Cloud, selling a wellness device through Fitbit and spinning out startups such as Verily

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Health OS

Virtuoso Surgical’s bladder cancer resection robot secures FDA de novo authorisation

De novo authorisation for Virtuoso's system follows its assignation of FDA breakthrough designation in September 2025. The post Virtuoso Surgical’s bladder cancer resection robot secures FDA de novo authorisation appeare

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Health OS

Google Cloud debuts Gemini for healthcare

Google is the latest big tech company to launch a healthcare-specific agentic AI platform. The company touts the platform’s ability to integrate with third-party tools and automate clinical and administrative tasks

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Health OS

Despite concerns, AI becomes daily fixture in physician workflows

AI use among physicians surged in 2026, with physicians using it for medical literature review and clinical decision support despite concerns about its accuracy and impact on newer physicians, according to a new survey.

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Health OS

Zus Health secures $33M to build the infrastructure for AI-powered clinical workflows

As healthcare companies race to build AI copilots and agents, startup Zus Health is betting that the bigger opportunity is creating the connected patient data layer those applications need to work reliably.

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