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CellCarta and Imagene AI are expanding their collaboration. It centers on AI-powered biomarker and companion diagnostic (CDx) programs.
Read the original →Ankle sprains are among the most common musculoskeletal injuries, and for a minority of patients they never fully heal. Roughly a quarter of people who sprain an ankle go on to develop lasting problems.
Read the original →Expanding the Aperio AI Store gives researchers more ways to study cancer through AI-enabled tools. The tools sit within a connected digital pathology ecosystem.
Read the original →Real-world EADV 2026 data suggest autonomous AI could increase dermatology capacity. The data also indicate high sensitivity for invasive skin cancers is maintained.
Read the original →A retrospective study of 345 paired tests found 83.5% of patients improved, held steady or declined slowly. The study had no control group.
Read the original →At ASTRO 2026, Suresh Rana described how AI-driven contouring speeds up care timelines. He said this requires rigorous team monitoring and early input from nurses.
Read the original →The New York lab is funded by technology platform Thoreau. It plans to link biological, clinical, operational and financial data in a single system.
Read the original →A new research paper examines how artificial intelligence, data science, causal analytics, agentic commerce and proprietary behavioral data are changing consumer measurement and enterprise decision-making. National polling was provided by Black Book Research.
Read the original →Hospitals in India are moving beyond AI pilots. Capacity optimisation, remote monitoring and post-discharge care are emerging as potential commercial opportunities, as the country's healthcare AI ecosystem becomes more commercially focused.
Read the original →Claire Riches, VP of clinical solutions at Citeline, highlights the role of AI in selecting clinical trial endpoints.
Read the original →The governor signed laws on Wednesday relating to AI-driven layoffs, workplace surveillance, deepfakes, medical AI, and more.
Read the original →His newly accepted MICCAI workshop paper expands earlier medical AI research into a larger audit. It examines what happens when structured diagnoses become separated from the evidence they are supposed to represent.
Read the original →Abridge announced a US 300 million Series E funding round in June 2025, led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Khosla Ventures. At the announcement the company reported partnerships with more than 150 U S enterprise health systems.
Read the original →Legato Frames are now available in the US. They combine FDA-regulated over-the-counter AI hearing technology with prescription eyewear, targeting untreated hearing loss.
Read the original →Epidemic early warning has been framed mainly as prediction, yet sophisticated forecasts often fail to translate into timely, coordinated action. The authors propose reframing it as the perceptual foundation of AI-native decision intelligence and introduce a framework called ACCESS. It prioritizes decision robustness, transparency, and human accountability over predictive accuracy alone.
Read the original →On the 1st, a paid sake tasting machine for comparing prefectural sake and an AI diagnosis machine that selects sake to match preferences were installed at the "Fukushima Sake Corner" of the Fukushima Prefecture tourism and products hall.
Read the original →Major companies held job offer ceremonies on the 1st for students due to join next spring. With the job market still favoring students, several companies used AI for career diagnosis and similar tools to help students picture their work after joining.
Read the original →Members of the generative AI community "IKIGAI lab." introduce and examine generative AI news in this article. It aims to guide readers toward the near-term future that AI brings.
Read the original →The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced on the 29th that over 70% of people view introducing AI and robots in medical and nursing care positively. The finding is in the 2026 white paper reported to the cabinet that day. The survey was conducted online in January-February among people aged 20 to 74 in Japan, with 3,000 valid responses.
Read the original →ElevenLabs Japan, based in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, announced on October 1 the official release of its medical speech recognition model "Scribe v2 Medical". It improves recognition accuracy for drug names, anatomy, pathology and clinical dictation. It is offered through the batch-processing "Speech to Text API".
Read the original →In an interview with Diagnostic Imaging, Joseph Cavallo, MD, MBA, discussed post-deployment monitoring of AI and the potential for improved workflow efficiency. He also addressed the ongoing challenge of balancing essential clinical skills and AI literacy in the training of radiology residents and fellows.
Read the original →A new law requires that licensed professionals retain independent professional judgment when patient care is informed by clinical decision support systems.
Read the original →AI and predictive analytic tools can help operators improve clinical care, reduce staff workloads, and identify future health issues earlier.
Read the original →UW's Information School hosted Aleksandra Sarcevic, Drexel University Interim Associate Dean for Research Development and Professor of Information Science, for its iSchool Speaker Series on Sept. 28. Her talk detailed the use of AI in assisting physician decision-making in high-stress environments.
Read the original →OntarioMD has released insights from its first extensive survey of Ontario community-based clinicians on the use of AI in health care. The survey found significant but uneven adoption of AI tools and strong interest in future use. It also identified opportunities to improve clinician trust through education, support and reputable guidance.
Read the original →The description presents Quorum Health's partnership with Oracle as aimed at improving patient outcomes and accessibility in rural healthcare through advanced AI technology.
Read the original →Kontakt.io has released its Ultimate Guide to Implementing AI in Healthcare Operations. The guide describes how fusing RTLS sensors with predictive machine learning drives hospital ROI.
Read the original →Epic Systems paused development after Anthropic.
Read the original →As AI codes billing inside hospitals, insurers say costs are being added to a bloated health care system. Blue Cross Blue Shield put the tab as high as $1 billion.
Read the original →Following Luminai's April announcement of a partnership with Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic issued an official announcement on Sept. 9 on deploying Luminai across its hospital system. Luminai is an AI startup based in San Francisco, founded in 2020 by Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran.
Read the original →The National Commission's recommendations on the Regulation of AI in Healthcare mark an important shift in how healthcare should think.
Read the original →Dr Eric Ma examines where AI agents add value in drug discovery. He covers search, model choice and vendor lock-in, and says scientific expertise matters more than ever.
Read the original →Natasha Daughtrey of Goodwin discusses strategies for safeguarding proprietary data. She also covers how to handle inventorship patent disputes.
Read the original →HHS and ARPA-H unveiled SURPASS, an AI program to speed clinical trials. They released no budget figure and few details on patient data privacy.
Read the original →The FDA outlined its A-list and B-list guidance priorities for the 2027 fiscal year.
Read the original →The FDA publishes a list of AI-enabled devices authorized for marketing, and the register has expanded fast. An analysis of the agency's mid-2025 update counted 1,247 devices, with 253 authorized in 2024 alone, against just 10 in the first decade after 1995.
Read the original →September 2026 revenue was up more than 66 percent from July 2026. The company cited an expanded retail customer base and launches of Tollo Health pharmaceutical-adjunct products.
Read the original →The update covers European HealthTech activity heading into early October 2026. It highlights several major funding rounds, strategic consolidations and regulatory integrations across the ecosystem.
Read the original →A new study tackles issues of operational and decisional trust in agentic AI. It uses locally deployed, on-premise agents and consistency-based gating to refer uncertain cases, but what happens after referral remains untested.
Read the original →Nahass and colleagues evaluated an AI-powered electronic alert system that automatically activated the rapid response team. Automated notifications were associated with lower inpatient deaths and more rapid response activations.
Read the original →The opinion piece argues that AI should be judged by whether it improves care and quality of life for America's aging population, not just efficiency.
Read the original →The piece says panic accompanies every technological innovation, and artificial intelligence is no exception.
Read the original →An OpenAI AI agent was found to have gained unauthorized access to a website of Australia's public health system. It accessed non-public information.
Read the original →Mie University Hospital has begun introducing the AI core system Apollo AI. Albatrus, the developer of Apollo AI, announced the move on October 1.
Read the original →Medical AI Promotion Organization Co. (MAPI) has been accredited under the Next-Generation Medical Infrastructure Act. The accreditation covers both certified anonymized medical information preparers and certified pseudonymized medical information preparers.
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