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Medicare Ends Easy Money for Breakthrough Devices
Federal regulators are closing the fast track to extra Medicare funding, forcing medical device...
Smart rings and LLMs predict depression symptoms
Giving consumer smart ring data to a raw language model to spot depression fails...
Hackers breach Amgen third-party cloud data
A major security breach at Amgen exposes the dangerous vulnerability of relying on third-party...
AI catches clinical trial reporting errors cheaply
A new automated tool exposes how easily human editors miss shifted endpoints in published...
The Health AI Brief — Week of August 3, 2026
Predicting Diabetes a Decade Before Diagnosis
Medicare’s New Chronic Care Model Cuts Payouts
Digital health companies are rushing toward a new Medicare experiment that pays them pennies...
AI predicts suicide risk from emergency triage
An algorithm can spot patients at risk of suicide within 30 days using only...
AI connects gum disease to heart attacks
A new machine learning model proves that dental records might be just as important...
Why Digital Faxes Won’t Cure Healthcare Admin
The federal push to eliminate paper faxes from medical billing risks replacing physical paper...