Epic Crowds Out Health Tech Startups
When the dominant electronic health record vendor decides to build its own clinical AI, the entire digital health startup ecosystem faces an existential threat.
AI Predicts Heart Failure From Routine ECGs
An AI model can spot heart failure risk day-by-day using standard electrocardiograms, but its performance drops when crossing oceans.
R1 Buys Humata to Automate Insurance Approvals
The administrative war between hospitals and insurers is moving from human negotiators to competing algorithms.
AI beats pathologists at grading cervical biopsies
A new study shows that AI foundation models can standardize cervical cancer screening across different countries, outperforming human pathologists where they struggle most.
Happy Health Puts Clinical Diagnostics on Your Finger
A massive funding round for a smart ring signals that clinical diagnostics are permanently leaving the hospital.
Week Eight Predicts Six Month GLP-1 Success
A new predictive model uses early data to forecast long-term GLP-1 weight loss, exposing a massive real-world retention crisis.
Chatbots are invading the electronic health record
Hospitals are rushing to deploy internal clinical AI assistants, but the motive is as much about defending their market share as it is about saving doctors time.
AI predicts HER2-low breast cancer from slides
A new deep learning model attempts to spot hard-to-find HER2-low breast cancers from standard tissue slides, but its modest accuracy reveals just how difficult this diagnostic boundary is to draw.
Epic Pushes Ambient AI Into Outpatient Clinics
The race to eliminate clinical keyboard time is moving from experimental pilots to the core of outpatient medicine.
Specialized AI beats ChatGPT at heart attack detection
A specialized neural network outperformed both emergency physicians and general-purpose chatbots in detecting life-threatening heart blockages on electrocardiograms.