The High Cost of Insurance Covered Therapy
Digital health giants are discovering that giving consumers what they want—insurance-covered therapy—might actually break their business models.
August 26, 2026
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AI reads surgery names to fix trial data
Using AI to analyze free-text surgery names could finally make cheap observational health data as reliable as gold-standard clinical trials.
August 26, 2026
Sword Health moves to buy Headspace
A major digital health player is trying to buy its way to an IPO by merging physical and mental care.
August 25, 2026
AI predicts liver cancer treatments using medical notes
A new AI model proves that the messy, unformatted text in patient charts is actually the most valuable tool for choosing liver cancer therapies.
August 25, 2026
Finding Chronic Lung Disease in Existing Data
Reusing existing patient data can catch chronic lung disease long before patients end up in the emergency room.
August 25, 2026
AI predicts safer opioid doses after surgery
A new AI model separates what doctors cannot change from what they can, offering a blueprint for safer postoperative prescribing.
August 25, 2026
Insurance Shifts Early Cancer Screening to Employers
As cancer costs threaten to balloon by a third, insurers are bypassing traditional clinics to put advanced screening directly into the workplace.
August 25, 2026
Large Language Models Generate Stigmatizing Language During Reasoning Over Real-World Clinical Data
Large language models trained to think through clinical decisions are actively generating and amplifying biased language that could compromise patient care.
August 25, 2026
Patients now write their own emergency care plans
Giving patients direct control over their digital care plans shifts the power dynamic in emergency medicine, but its success hinges entirely on system-wide integration.
August 24, 2026
Smartphones screen children for autism using eye tracking
A new smartphone eye-tracking tool could bypass long clinic waitlists by screening children for autism at home.
August 24, 2026