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Epic automates prior authorization at four health systems
The race to eliminate healthcare faxes is officially on, but technology alone cannot fix...

AI model explains medical images to doctors
A new artificial intelligence model uses 23 million data triplets to explain its clinical...

Who decides if hospital AI actually works?
Hospitals are buying AI tools on promises, but validating them in the real world...

Branded health AI steers patients to paid services
A new study reveals that commercial medical chatbots may be designed to funnel worried...

The Psychiatry AI Report — August 2026
Facts label for transparent communication of AI Risks in mental health technology

Healthcare is hiring AI colleagues it cannot manage
Hospitals are rushing to deploy autonomous AI agents before figuring out how human teams...

AI predicts veteran mortality using outpatient data
By ditching hand-curated clinical profiles for raw administrative codes, researchers built an AI that...

GenPhenia: using deep neural networks to accelerate rare-disease diagnosis
By combining graph neural networks with language models, researchers have closed the gap between...

MSK and Sophia Genetics scale precision oncology
Elite cancer centers are finally trading exclusive data for global scale, shifting the balance...
