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Insurance Shifts Early Cancer Screening to Employers
As cancer costs threaten to balloon by a third, insurers are bypassing traditional clinics...
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...
Patients now write their own emergency care plans
Giving patients direct control over their digital care plans shifts the power dynamic in...
Smartphones screen children for autism using eye tracking
A new smartphone eye-tracking tool could bypass long clinic waitlists by screening children for...
FDA Prepares Rules for Generative AI Devices
The federal government is finally moving to regulate generative AI in clinical settings, but...
AI locates epilepsy zones without averaging brain signals
A new deep learning model pinpoints seizure-generating brain tissue by analyzing individual electrical pulses...
The Health AI Brief — Week of August 24, 2026
Who decides if hospital AI actually works?
AI scribes are keeping doctors from quitting
Hospitals are spending millions to keep exhausted clinicians from walking out the door, but...
Open source AI segments complex cardiac MRIs
A new open-source AI matches human precision in tracing heart structures but falls short...