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A multicenter study found that a deep learning model analyzing full ultrasound videos significantly improved diagnostic accuracy for suspicious breast lesions. It also lifted junior sonographers' performance.
Read the original →AnX Robotica highlighted the documented results of clinical performance of NaviCam ProScan, its AI-assisted capsule endoscopy reading system.
Read the original →This is the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features, a roundup of stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards and sales. It covers items the site could not cover in full articles.
Read the original →Mammography has long been one of healthcare's most powerful tools for detecting breast cancer early, and artificial intelligence is helping make that screening stronger. California's Sutter Health, a not-for-profit health system, has embraced AI-enhanced mammography to support radiologists.
Read the original →A new data-driven framework called STREAM models ICU patients as trajectories through a multidimensional physiological space. It identifies state outliers whose mortality risk is up to sixteen times higher.
Read the original →Electronic Health Records are evolving fast. Leaders from EY, DataArt, and Publicis Sapient explain what is driving the change and what comes next.
Read the original →At Fall Clinical Derm, the discussion covered how LLM decision support reshapes dermatology care and helps non-specialists diagnose. It also addressed trust gaps, ambiguity and hallucination risks.
Read the original →A new analysis of 74 official documents finds that AI scribe governance hinges on a fragile convention. Under it, machine-generated notes are treated as drafts until a clinician authenticates them.
Read the original →Google tested AMIE with 98 urgent-care patients under physician supervision. Utah's AI healthcare pilots raise a different question about what happens when review comes later.
Read the original →AI is already widely used in hospitals and medical research. The article asks whether a new way of thinking can unleash the technology's green credentials.
Read the original →Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft are planning record capital outlays. Healthcare companies are adopting AI tools and models across clinical and consumer operations.
Read the original →Advarra is funding an AI ethics curriculum from PRIM&R for research oversight. It gives institutional review boards guidance on algorithm governance and on evaluating AI tools in clinical trials.
Read the original →GSK announced a new collaboration with Chai Discovery to apply AI-driven protein design in its drug discovery pipeline. The partnership gives GSK access to Chai Discovery.
Read the original →The clinical data world has been promised transformation before. Advances such as eSource, risk-based monitoring and paperless trials each arrived with momentum, and each stalled between pilot and scale.
Read the original →The episode's headline topic, AI replacing interns, is one thread in a broader conversation. The discussion covers how AI is reshaping education and research.
Read the original →AI-driven automation reduces EDC query volume as trial complexity grows. It collapses configuration time from days to minutes across clinical trial networks.
Read the original →A new PLOS Digital Health opinion argues that tens of thousands of authorised AI diagnostic tools rest on benchmark accuracy figures. It says those figures reveal little about real patient benefit.
Read the original →A state study committee is examining how Wisconsin might regulate AI to protect patient safety and data privacy.
Read the original →Malaysia's healthcare leaders highlighted how AI, connected care and trusted data can improve patient outcomes, reduce workloads and strengthen accountability. This applies across public and private healthcare.
Read the original →A newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health. It says a 'realistic route to act' on each exists.
Read the original →A fashion-type fragrance diagnosis using the fragrance sommelier AI KAORIUM, provided by Scentmatic, is appearing at Lumine Yurakucho. It runs from Monday, August 17 to Wednesday, September 16, 2026, free of charge.
Read the original →CMS gave a 1,700-member workspace an unusually direct role in discussions on AI health apps, medical records and Medicare payment policy. Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, Google and investors took part, while reportedly far fewer doctors, hospital representatives and patient advocates did. CMS also launched the Medicare App Library and a payment model for technology-enabled chronic disease care, and describes the effort as open, voluntary technical collaboration.
Read the original →From November, the technician who regularly checks on a multifunction copier will have AI read one received fax on the spot before leaving. and° has entered a business partnership with Denchu, an Osaka office equipment seller.
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