Epic automates prior authorization at four health systems
August 18, 2026The race to eliminate healthcare faxes is officially on, but technology alone cannot fix a broken insurer approval system.
AI model explains medical images to doctors
August 18, 2026A new artificial intelligence model uses 23 million data triplets to explain its clinical decisions instead of acting as a black box.
Who decides if hospital AI actually works?
August 18, 2026Hospitals are buying AI tools on promises, but validating them in the real world remains a dangerous blind spot.
Branded health AI steers patients to paid services
August 18, 2026A new study reveals that commercial medical chatbots may be designed to funnel worried patients into paid clinical pipelines rather than just assessing their health.
Healthcare is hiring AI colleagues it cannot manage
August 18, 2026Hospitals are rushing to deploy autonomous AI agents before figuring out how human teams will actually work alongside them.
AI predicts veteran mortality using outpatient data
August 18, 2026By ditching hand-curated clinical profiles for raw administrative codes, researchers built an AI that predicts long-term mortality better than traditional medical indices.
GenPhenia: using deep neural networks to accelerate rare-disease diagnosis
August 17, 2026By combining graph neural networks with language models, researchers have closed the gap between messy clinical symptoms and hard genetic data.
MSK and Sophia Genetics scale precision oncology
August 17, 2026Elite cancer centers are finally trading exclusive data for global scale, shifting the balance of power in precision medicine.
AI Tackles the Bladder Cancer Biomarker Deficit
August 17, 2026A new partnership aims to bring precision medicine to a disease long starved of reliable biomarkers.