Daily Briefing · Issue №028 · 2026-06-11

Physicians

'Careful' AI integration needed for Australian mental healthcare: paper

• Australian general practitioners should introduce AI into mental healthcare cautiously, with patient consent, clinical safeguards and oversight built into any deployment, a new article in the Australian Journal of Genera

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Pharmacy

National Cancer Center Korea developing genAI for predicting drug efficacy

• South Korea's National Cancer Center is developing a new AI model to predict drug responses, envisioning it acting as a "virtual clinical trial site" for new drug candidates. The generative AI-based model called Biologic

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Physicians

Stem Cell Transplant for Sickle Cell Disease More Cost-Effective Than Gene Therapy

• (MedPage Today) -- Non-myeloablative haploidentical allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is a more cost-effective strategy compared with gene therapy for treating sickle cell disease (SCD), rese

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Physicians

Analyzing U.S. health care for the better; voting on physician pay; AI vs. brain tumors — Morning Medical Upda

• The top news stories in medicine today.

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Dentistry

Rice University Students Harness AI to Transform the Front Desk

• A student-founded startup is helping dental practices streamline scheduling, insurance verification, and patient communication with artificial intelligence, potentially improving access to care while reducing administrat

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Pharmacy

Novo Nordisk puts AI at the centre of its clinical strategy

• Novo Nordisk’s Ibrahim Kamstrup-Akkaoui outlines how the Danish GLP-1 giant is embedding AI into its clinical foundation.

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Digital Health

Take Part in Our Survey on Healthcare AI and Security

• [Sponsored] Our new report will focus on how people who work for payers are thinking about AI and cybersecurity needs to protect sensitive healthcare data. The post Take Part in Our Survey on Healthcare AI and Security a

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Digital Health

The Emerging Role of AI Platforms in Healthcare Delivery: What Healthcare Leaders Need to Know

• The following is a guest article by Ashutosh Kavathekar, Global Head – Healthcare at Apexon The healthcare industry crossed a threshold this year. A recent Elsevier report shows that more than 40% of clinicians in India

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Digital Health

EHR vendor notebook: Elsevier, athenahealth and PointClickCare ramp up agentic AI

• Also: Epic, Elation Health and Glooko activate high-need artificial intelligence integrations while Enzo Health launches an AI-native EHR for home health.

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Digital Health

STAT+: What’s changed since the last major Ebola outbreak

• A suppressed federal alcohol report, an "inevitable development" for wearables data, and more health news from Morning Rounds

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Digital Health

AI in Healthcare Emerges as High-Growth Opportunity, with Market Projected to Reach US$ 146.3 Billion by 2031

• SHERIDAN, Wyo., June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The global AI in healthcare market is projected to grow from USD 20.2 billion in 2025 to USD 146.3 billion by 2031, registering a CAGR of 39% during the ...

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Digital Health

How K Health moved AI chatbots into hospitals

• Startups that fashion themselves as AI doctors that patients can chat with have gained traction over the last year. One of these startups, K Health, began in 2016 as a symptom checker ...

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Digital Health

Autonomize AI Selected as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for Transforming US Healthcare Workfl

• Autonomize AI Selected as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for Transforming US Healthcare Workflows ...

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Health OS

Exclusive: Rad AI expands partnership with flagship health system Yale New Haven

• California-based Rad AI, a generative AI radiology workflow company, is extending its partnership with Connecticut-based Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) to deploy its reporting technology across the health system's

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Health OS

How CIOs can build an agentic AI framework

• Business acumen and a strategic framework will support successful tech overhauls through AI adoption, said Info-Tech Research Group CEO Tom Zehren.

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Health OS

Novanta outlays $1.45bn for Riverpoint Medical buyout

• The deal will give Novanta entry into the minimally invasive surgery segment and is expected to bolster it position in the medical consumables space. The post Novanta outlays $1.45bn for Riverpoint Medical buyout appeare

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