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AI Triages Rheumatology Referrals as Well as Doctors
A new study shows that smart prompting makes cheap, small AI models triage patients...
The Surgery AI Report — August 2026
Artificial intelligence-supported segmentation of cardiac anatomy in open-heart surgery videos
Medicare Closes One Regulatory Gap But Opens Another
The federal government's new plan to rescue medical devices from regulatory limbo comes with...
How FHIR data format changes AI clinical quality
Feeding raw medical data directly into clinical AI models might be degrading their performance...
Regulators Cut Duplicative Gene Therapy Testing
The FDA is letting drugmakers recycle data from past trials to speed up gene...
AI learns genetic disease boundaries from health records
An attention-based AI model has mapped the genetic boundaries between neurological and psychiatric diseases...
AI scribes are not saving healthcare
Automating clinical notes was the easy part, but the real administrative crisis happens after...
AI predicts blood pressure drops during dialysis
A new machine learning model helps ICU nurses predict dangerous blood pressure drops before...
The Health AI Brief — Week of August 10, 2026
UnitedHealth Bets Three Billion on AI Automation