Daily Briefing · Issue №092 · 2026-08-14

Pharmacy

AI clinical monitoring agent can deliver up to 82 times the ROI in oncology: report

• A new analysis from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) found that an AI clinical monitoring agent can deliver an estimated 82-fold return on investment in phase 3 oncology trials.

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Physicians

Healio AI, Healio LIVE expand access to CME in new partnership

• Healio LIVE and Healio AI announced a partnership that will increase Healio AI’s access to educational programming, strengthening the HIPAA-compliant platform’s knowledge base, according to a press release.The collaborat

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Physicians

Rod Stewart's Medical Procedure; Lightning Hospitalizes 16; AI as Sperm Detective

• (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Sir Rod Stewart will be unable to continue his "One Last Time" farewell tour following a coronary stent procedure. (AP) The Mexico farm li

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Dentistry

Oryx Named Among Fastest-Growing Software Companies

• Oryx Ranks Among the Top 1,000 Overall and Top 100 Software Companies for Second Year in a Row Oryx Dental, the leader in clinically rooted, cloud-based, and AI-powered dental practice management software (DPMS), today a

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Dentistry

How generative AI is exacerbating dental negligence claims

• Damian Whitlam explores how generative AI is making it easier for patients to pursue dental complaints and negligence claims, while creating new risks and resource pressures for practices, insurers and regulators. Genera

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Physician Assistant

AAPA Recognizes Sheila Mauldin with Honorary PA Designation

• Over the last four decades, Sheila Mauldin has been a steadfast advocate for the physician associate profession, guiding the evolution of PA board certification and recertification. During AAPA 2026 in New Orleans, AAPA

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Nursing

Nurses seek a seat at the table as they fight expanding clinical AI

• Nurses are getting more vocal about the risks posed by clinical artificial intelligence to their jobs and patient care as the technology makes deeper inroads into the practice of medicine.

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Digital Health

A Machine Learning–Based Model to Predict Overactive Bladder Risk Among US Women: Evidence From the National H

• Background: Overactive bladder (OAB) is a prevalent condition, particularly among women, characterized by urinary urgency, often accompanied by frequency and nocturia. Traditional risk prediction methods for OAB are limi

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Digital Health

Why Edge AI Is Becoming Healthcare’s Next Infrastructure Layer

• The opportunity for edge AI in healthcare is real. The organizations that capture it will start with a specific problem, build governance that lets AI operate safely within clinical workflows, and ...

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Digital Health

Inside Australia’s Wide-Open Acute Care EHR and Aged Care Markets

• Australia presents a rare global greenfield for acute care EHRs while its aged care sector is also wide-open given sweeping regulatory reforms and investment. Get the inside scoop from HIC 2026 on why international healt

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Health OS

Abbott, Google to combine glucose data with AI coaching

• The multiyear partnership will connect Abbott’s over-the-counter Lingo sensor and the Google Health app.

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Health OS

Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup

• Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog? Well, surprise: He's launched a startup. That entrepreneur

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Health OS

STAT+: What Medicare incentives for AI-based devices mean for tech companies — and hospitals

• As Medicare pays hospitals when they use newly-authorized AI devices, researchers say those payments could incentivize overuse.

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Health OS

STAT+: The secret AI-startup project I’ve been working on the last six months

• In this edition of STAT's AI Prognosis: The messy reality of hastily developing and selling AI tools to clinics, and other health AI news.

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Health OS

New Startup Launches to Close the Bedside Communication Gap in Hospitals

• The 1842 Fund launched a new startup called Suvi Health, which is developing an ambient AI platform that records hospital bedside conversations and turns them into a shared task list for patients and families. The compan

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Health OS

Oracle launches AI-driven patient portal

• The company says its patient portal should help translate medical jargon into plain language. It’s Oracle’s latest move to stand out in the competitive EHR market.

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Health OS

Cedar launches Kora Platform to build out agentic AI for medical billing

• Kora has achieved a 20% pickup rate for outbound calls, which the company says is 4x the industry average.

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Health OS

Common Health Coalition secures $100M from OpenAI Foundation to boost hepatitis C cure rates

• Funding will support the deployment of AI-enabled tools to help identify patients who have fallen out of care, reduce administrative burden, strengthen care coordination and improve patient outcomes.

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Health OS

Suvi Health launches ambient AI solution for patients to reduce hospital stays and support care transitions

• Startup Suvi Health developed an ambient AI platform for patients to close gaps at critical transition points and support the handoff between hospital care teams and patients and their families.

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Health OS

Oracle Health debuts revamped patient portal with an AI upgrade

• Oracle Health debuted a revamped digital platform for patients with an artificial intelligence assistant that can explain medical records in plain language and assist with scheduling appointments.

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