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Cannabis quit apps fail clinical standards
Digital tools designed to help users quit cannabis are failing to provide basic, evidence-based...
AI agents fail at independent clinical data analysis
A new study reveals that while AI agents can draft brilliant research plans, they...
Rural Telehealth is Failing Where Needed Most
Expanding virtual care platforms does nothing for patients who lack the basic digital infrastructure...
AI struggles with external spinal implant scans
A new deep-learning tool dramatically reduces metal artifact errors on internal spinal x-rays, but...
Clinicians gain sixteen days but face shadow AI
While AI tools claw back nearly a month of lost administrative time for clinicians,...
Doctors distrust tech companies to regulate clinical AI
Clinicians are quietly adopting generative AI for administrative tasks while deeply distrusting the tech...
Tablet Exercise Apps Fail to Reduce Falls
Digital health tools can train elderly bodies, but changing actual clinical outcomes in nursing...
AI measures blood vessels to predict lung decline
A new deep-learning analysis reveals that blood vessel changes, not just scarring, drive sudden...
FDA Clears New Cervical Spine Navigation Instruments
Surgeons performing posterior cervical fusions can now use navigated instruments to place implants with...
AI diagnoses sleep apnea using light sensors
Wearable sensors analyzed by AI can spot sleep apnea, but shifting accuracy rates mean...
FDA Clears Stroke Imaging inside Angio Suites
Keeping acute stroke patients on the operating table instead of wheeling them back to...
AI and Rules Reduce Anticoagulant Alert Fatigue
Hospital pharmacists wasting time on irrelevant software alerts can now use hybrid AI to...