Daily Briefing · Issue №063 · 2026-07-16

Physicians

Patient- and Caregiver-Informed Considerations for the Design and Implementation of Generative AI–Supported Pa

• Background: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to impact health care by transforming workflows and improving outcomes. Patient-centered clinical decision support (PC CDS) are digital tools that use

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Physicians

Study shows promise of brain interface training to aid neuropsychiatric patients

• Brain-computer interface training, which uses feedback from electrical activity in the brain, shows promise in improving cognitive function in neuropsychiatric patients with Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, demen

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Physicians

Factors Shaping Trust and Satisfaction With AI Medical Chatbots: A Mixed Methods Vignette Survey of Caregivers

• Background: As artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots become an increasingly common source of quick medical guidance, it is important to understand whether their responses meet users’ needs and support well-informed healt

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Physicians

Medical device sales reps who use AI are three times more likely to hit quota, survey finds

• AcuityMD's 2026 benchmark report of 150 MedTech reps finds AI users report stronger quota attainment and time savings, even though most still rely on general-purpose tools for basic tasks.

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Physicians

9 ways to show up when patients ask AI about your practice

• Patients are asking chatbots about your practice and the answers are often wrong. Here are nine fixes to take control of them.

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Dentistry

Videa Partnership Advances Pediatric Dental AI Adoption

• Roll-out supports parent education, provider communication, and coordinated specialty care at scale Videa, the most adopted dental AI platform, today announced that Specialty Dental Brands (SDB) has selected Videa as its

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Pharmacy

Insilico signs on with CDMO Bora in $2.5B AI drug discovery deal

• Generative AI specialist Insilico Medicine has teamed up with another biopharma company, this time CDMO Bora Pharmaceuticals. The collaboration could ultimately be worth $2.5 billion if milestones are reached.

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Physician Assistant

PA Kirsten Brondstater Champions Inclusivity for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Communities

• PA Kirsten Brondstater was told she would never work in medicine because of her hearing impairment. This only fueled her resolve, and she has since become a PA and earned a Doctor of Medical Science degree. Now, she advo

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Nursing

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

• Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.

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Nursing

AI's toughest proving ground may be skilled nursing

• It's arguably the healthcare space's most demanding test bed, where technology must immediately reduce burden, earn clinicians' trust and improve decisions within existing workflows. PointClickCare ...

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Digital Health

Why healthcare AI often goes ‘dead on arrival’

• Bon Secours Mercy Health CDO Jason Szczuka on why AI adding to clinical burden go ‘dead on arrival' and how to make digital investment stick.

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Digital Health

User Perspectives on Conversational Agents for Preventive Alcohol Self-Help: Qualitative Exploratory Study

• Background: Alcohol use remains a major public health concern, and although preventive alcohol self-help interventions aim to support individuals in need of indicated prevention, they continue to face challenges related

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Digital Health

Interoperability is an International Team Sport + Other Lessons and Innovations from eHealth26

• The vibe at eHealth26 was completely different this year. The flashy AI hype is gone, replaced by a grounded focus on getting things done. What was discussed? The realities of AI adoption, the impending impact of Bill S5

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Health OS

Managing AI bias in clinical research: From informed consent to global parity

• AI is quickly moving from experimentation to execution in clinical research, and that shift raises a leadership question the industry can no longer afford to treat as secondary: how to scale innovation without scaling in

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Health OS

Startup Sonata launches preventive healthcare membership, linking clinical decisions with AI

• Membership includes unlimited, continuous care with licensed physicians, in-home blood testing, clinical AI and genome sequencing, according to the company.

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Health OS

THINK Surgical nets up to $65m with Symbiotic Capital debt facility

• Think’s flagship product is TMINI, a handheld robotics system for TKA procedures. The post THINK Surgical nets up to $65m with Symbiotic Capital debt facility appeared first on Medical Device Network.

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Health OS

STAT+: Medicare Advantage insurers face new bipartisan scrutiny over AI and care denials

• Blumenthal, Hawley press UnitedHealth, Humana, CVS for documents related to using AI to deny or delay care.

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Health OS

Development of a Blended Physical Activity Intervention for Office Employees Using Intervention Mapping: Inter

• Background: Insufficient engagement in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) is a significant risk factor for major noncommunicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases (eg, coronary heart disease and stro

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