Daily Briefing · Issue №070 · 2026-07-23

Physicians

Beyond Therapy Bots: Evaluating AI at the Front Door of Mental Health Care

• The following is a guest article by Dylan Abrams, Lead Clinical Psychologist at InStride Health Most conversations about AI in behavioral health focus on two areas: operational efficiency and treatment delivery. On the o

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Physicians

FDA clears combined patient warming, securement device for robotic surgery

• Gentherm's ThermAffyx Patient Safety System integrates active warming with anti-slip securement in a single Class II platform, targeting hypothermia risk during the more than 3 million robotic-assisted procedures perform

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Physicians

Novel Musculoskeletal Hypotheses in the Armed Services Trauma and Rehabilitation Outcome (ADVANCE) Cohort: Dev

• Background: Musculoskeletal conditions are a leading global cause of disability, yet the factors influencing long-term musculoskeletal health, particularly following trauma, remain incompletely understood. Machine learni

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Physicians

Medtronic adds real-time AI to Hugo robot

• The computing platform will make its debut at the Society of Robotic Surgery meeting this week, as Medtronic challenges Intuitive in the U.S. robotic soft tissue market.

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Physicians

A Supervised Fine-Tuned Large Language Model for Lifestyle Management in Patients With Prostate Cancer: Develo

• Background: Lifestyle interventions for patients with prostate cancer have been shown to improve treatment adherence and quality of life. However, there remains a lack of large language models (LLMs) capable of deliverin

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Physicians

Can AI Replace Your Shoulder Fellowship? Not Even Close – But It Might Make You a Better Surgeon

• Interesting new review of the state of play for AI (aka: machine or deep learning) in shoulder surgery applications.

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Physicians

Dr. Ohmini Krishnamurthy Rajendran: Advancing Precision Oncology at the Intersection of Medicine, Artificial I

• Discover how Dr. Ohmini Krishnamurthy Rajendran, an Indian physician-scientist, is revolutionizing precision oncology. Her work integrates AI, computational science, and radiology to transform cancer ...

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Physicians

New AI framework prioritizes high quality patient care in hospitals

• A UVA Health emergency medicine doctor and colleague at Clemson University have developed a framework to help hospitals integrate artificial intelligence to not just increase efficiency and cut costs ...

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Physicians

Doctors develop guiding principles for future of AI in health care

• A UVA Health emergency medicine doctor and a colleague at Clemson University have developed a framework to help hospitals integrate artificial intelligence to not only increase efficiency and cut ...

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Physicians

Augmented Reality Shoulder Surgery Comes to the Desert

• Augmented reality shoulder surgery comes to the desert — more specifically, to OrthoArizona and Dr. Shelden Martin.

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Dentistry

Video transcripts may streamline paediatric dental training, study finds

• SINGAPORE: Personalised feedback can help dental students develop the behaviour guidance skills needed to treat anxious or uncooperative children. However, reviewing video recordings of appointments with patients can pla

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Dentistry

Amann Girrbach addresses rumours: “We are no longer flying under the radar”

• Amann Girrbach develops CAD/CAM solutions for dental practices and laboratories. The company, which is headquartered in Mäder in Austria, has reshaped its portfolio, internal structures and distribution network in recent

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Pharmacy

Verseon bets physics can take drug design beyond AI’s training data

• The Bay Area-based pharma company Verseon began designing small-molecule drugs on a computational platform in 2002. That is well before most of the companies like Recursion and Exscientia now called AI drug discovery fir

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Nursing

AI-Powered Simulation for Nursing Education: Mixed Methods Systematic Review

• Background: Traditional simulation-based nursing education is often constrained by high costs, resource intensity, and limited scalability. AI-powered simulations offer dynamic, scalable, and personalized alternatives. H

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Digital Health

Medical AI Agents for Clinical Decision Support: Viewpoint Using the Planning, Action, Reflection, and Memory

• Medical AI agents are emerging as a new generation of clinical decision support systems, moving beyond static prediction toward multistep, workflow-oriented assistance. This Viewpoint argues that agentic architectures in

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Digital Health

A Locally Executable AI System for Improving Preoperative Patient Communication: Multidomain Clinical Evaluati

• Background: Patients undergoing invasive procedures frequently experience anxiety and often have unanswered questions regarding the procedure. Although large language models show considerable promise for supporting patie

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Digital Health

Five considerations for adopting AI in clinical study build workflows

• AI can accelerate study-build foundations, but only when teams combine targeted automation with standards, traceability and control.

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Pharmacy

Is Health Care’s AI Race Leaving Pharmacists out of Key Decisions?

• As health care adopts AI, pharmacists may be overlooked, despite expertise in safety, governance and clinical decisions.

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Digital Health

New Value in Service Desk Data Collected through AI

• At the service desks that HCTec runs for health care institutions, AI is transforming the healthcare IT service desk from a reactive support function into a strategic source of operational intelligence. For example, now

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Digital Health

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

• Today's briefing features a digital implant centre in Israel and a security platform for large AI models running sensitive data.

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Digital Health

Designing Modular Systems for Rigorous Healthcare AI Validation

• Reed, PhD, named to the 100 Women in AI 2026 list, champions strict healthcare AI validation over simple administrative automation.

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Health OS

AI is moving inside the device. Who owns the clinical risk?

• Tips to mitigate the risk that medtech teams keep leaving unowned as artificial intelligence moves into Class II and III medical devices. By Dr. Sarah Matt, Vital Werks By the time a clinician trusts a wrong output from

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Health OS

How to Secure a Medical Device You Can’t Patch

• By Joseph M. Saunders, Founder and CEO, RunSafe Security A medical device cleared today may stay in clinical service for 15 years or more, but the software inside it does not always age well. New vulnerabilities get disc

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Health OS

Noninvasive sepsis SaMD developed at Johns Hopkins offers early warnings

• An early warning system for sepsis developed by Johns Hopkins University researchers was commercialized by Bayesian Health and cleared by the FDA. The software as a medical device (SaMD) is the first continuous artificia

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Health OS

Samsung aims to help you make more sense of health data with a new AI-powered assistant

• The Health Assistant chatbot is available "in beta for eligible US users," Samsung says.

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Pharmacy

Inside the first-of-its-kind Enable Injections enFuse drug delivery wearable

• When Sanofi won FDA approval in July 2026 for the first anticancer treatment administered with an on-body injector (OBI), the Enable Injections enFuse platform made it possible. The enFuse OBI secured its initial combina

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Dentistry

NHS dental prescribing: What a decade of data reveals

• LONDON, England: A ten-year analysis of National Health Service (NHS) dental prescribing in England suggests that antimicrobial and analgesic prescribing, which increased during COVID-19 restrictions, has largely returne

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Health OS

Risk of Neurologic Disorder Rises for People Who Live Near Traffic Noise

• (MedPage Today) -- Long-term exposure to residential road traffic noise was associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, a study of more than 3 million adults in Denmark showed. Traffic noise levels at the m

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Health OS

Who Owns the Outcome? The shift from ‘Capability’ to ‘Accountability’ for AI Healthcare platforms with Pritesh

• Ask a health system executive what their newest AI tool has done for length of stay, and watch the answer be “it didn’t change”. The tool works. Clinicians use it. It generates notes, flags risk, drafts messages. But whe

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