Insurers Face Backlash Over Automated Care Denials
Algorithms are making medical decisions, and doctors are fighting back against the silent machine veto.
AI groups early colon cancer recurrence risks
Unsupervised machine learning reveals that tumor shape, not just invasion depth, dictates whether early colorectal cancer will return after endoscopic removal.
Fixing the Broken Escalator of Youth Mental Health
When a child faces a mental health crisis, the current system offers only two real options: months on a waiting list for basic therapy, or a chaotic, expensive trip to the emergency room.
Integrative cfDNA profiling from low-pass whole-genome sequencing enables tissue-of-origin prediction in cancer
A new machine learning model can pinpoint the origin of mysterious cancers from simple blood fragments, shifting the focus of liquid biopsies from detection to direction.
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.