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