Daily Briefing · Issue №055 · 2026-07-08

Nursing

Generative Artificial Intelligence Literacy Scale for Nurses: Development and Psychometric Evaluation

• Background: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can automate time-intensive tasks and support clinical decision-making in care settings. Nurses require appropriate competencies to ensure that integration of GenAI

Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) ↗

Physicians

French gene therapy biotech gets €33M to follow Krystal's blueprint

• A small French-US biotech has gathered more funds to see if it can follow in the footsteps of Krystal Biotech in the HSV-based gene therapy field, but in a different therapeutic area. Cyllene Therapeutics raised ...

Endpoints News ↗

Physicians

AI in Mental Health: Why Clinicians Need to Be in the Room

• As clinicians, we learn not to be agreeable, we learn to challenge and sit in discomfort. We ask the hard questions underneath the one being asked. That is the work these tools are not yet built to do. The post AI in Men

MedCity News ↗

Pharmacy

FDA deepens Vertex's Casgevy label, opening treatment for patients as young as 2

• Vertex Pharmaceuticals has gained a label expansion from the FDA, which allows children ages 2 and up to receive the gene therapy Casgevy for the treatment of sickle cell disease or transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia

Fierce Pharma ↗

Pharmacy

Is AI Ready to Take Over Prescriptions? Doctors Are Wary of Utah's Refill Program

• (MedPage Today) -- A prescription refill program that quietly launched in Utah earlier this year has kicked off a big medical debate: Is artificial intelligence (AI) ready to take over tasks that, until now, could only b

MedPage Today — PAs ↗

Pharmacy

AI care partner Heidi puts a spin on pharma ad tropes in new campaign to relieve 'side effects'

• Heidi, alongside creative firm Cocogun and media agency TRG, have launched a new brand campaign that positions its AI tool as a dose of "relief, on repeat."

Fierce Healthcare ↗

Nursing

Nurses leading AI

• ANA-convened Think Tank defines a forward path. NO LONGER a future concept in healthcare, artificial intelligence (AI) actively shapes nursing practice today. Recognizing both the promise and the complexity of this trans

American Nurse ↗

Digital Health

Why Penn Medicine Is Deploying AI Agents for Patient Intake

• Penn Medicine is integrating K Health’s AI-powered patient intake agents into its virtual primary care service. The health system says the goal is to free up time for patient care rather than information-gathering. The p

MedCity News ↗

Digital Health

The AI Playbook for Health Plans: 5 Steps for Leaders Who Don’t Know Where to Start

• It starts with a simple mindset shift, realizing that a successful AI journey begins with identifying a business problem, not with technology. The plans that make real progress embrace this mindset first then follow thes

MedCity News ↗

Digital Health

AI continues to change how hospitals in central Ohio care for patients

• Doctors at central Ohio’s major hospital systems say artificial intelligence is helping them see more than they could before.

Bing News — Nursing Tech & Devices ↗

Health OS

ALZAI reports validation of Alzheimer’s risk identification models

• ALZAI Health has reported the validation of its AI-driven Alzheimer’s disease risk identification models using data from over 1.1 million patients in the US. The post ALZAI reports validation of Alzheimer’s risk identifi

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Pharmacy

Therapies to lower BP, lipids close gap in obesity-related CVD

• With wider use of antihypertensive and lipid-lowering therapies, people with overweight/obesity may reach similar blood pressure and cholesterol levels compared with people with normal BMI, researchers reported.Lower use

Healio Primary Care ↗