Federal Health Agencies Are Rushing Into AI
July 11, 2026Federal health agencies are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence, but their rush to deploy these tools is outpacing their willingness to govern them.
AI tackles the prostate MRI bottleneck
July 11, 2026Doubling scanning capacity is useless if there are no radiologists left to read the scans.
Automated Disease Activity Assessment in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Using Privacy-Preserving Large Language Models
July 11, 2026Automating lupus tracking with open-source language models could finally bring standardized disease monitoring to busy clinics.
AI Exposes Hidden Veteran Self-Harm Data
July 11, 2026Electronic health records are failing vulnerable patients because standard billing codes ignore the messy reality of clinical notes.
LLMs Fail Local Speech in Nigerian Clinical Test
July 11, 2026A new clinical benchmark reveals that large language models fail frontline health workers unless their queries are translated into English first.
AI discharge summaries target doctor burnout
July 10, 2026A new pilot shows that automating clinical notes saves little time but dramatically lowers cognitive fatigue.
Matching blood by DNA, not just type
July 10, 2026A mismatch between the genetic makeup of blood donors and recipients is driving a silent crisis in sickle cell care.
AI agent runs biomedical research tasks autonomously
July 10, 2026A new AI agent named Biomni can design and run its own lab experiments, shifting the bottleneck of medical discovery from human labor to machine execution.
IKS Health Bets Big on Rural Tech
July 10, 2026A massive debt-funded acquisition reveals how AI vendors must buy their way into legacy hospital workflows.