Tech Alone Won’t Save UK Healthcare – Finn Stevenson, Flok Health
Finn Stevenson, CEO of AI‑driven physiotherapy startup Flok Health, discussed on the UKTN Podcast how slow reform in the NHS hampers patient care, especially for back‑pain sufferers. He highlighted Flok's hybrid model that combines algorithmic triage with live physiotherapist sessions to cut waiting times and costs. While technology can streamline access, Stevenson warned that systemic policy and funding gaps limit its impact. The conversation underscores that digital health is a piece, not the whole, of the UK healthcare solution.
China’s Health AI App Hits 100 Million Users Worldwide
The world’s largest health-focused AI app is from China now, with over 100 million (!) users. Ant Group just released this number and more details of what their plans are with the app. "Among its new users, 52% came from third-tier cities...
Ambience Healthcare Recognized as 2026 KLAS/CHIME Trailblazer Award Winner
Ambience Healthcare was named the 2026 KLAS/CHIME Trailblazer Award winner, recognizing its leadership in AI‑driven clinical documentation and revenue integrity. The award, now in its second year, evaluates vendors on KLAS performance scores, client feedback, and measurable industry impact. Ambience’s...
Drug-Controlled CAR T Cells May Enable Safer Immunotherapy
Researchers at EPFL have created a drug‑controlled CAR‑T platform called DROP‑CAR that can be turned off on demand with the FDA‑approved BCL‑2 inhibitor venetoclax. The system places a reversible protein‑protein interaction on the cell surface, causing the CAR to dissociate...
Flatiron Health Attends the 2026 American Society of Genitourinary Cancers Symposium to Answer Oncology’s Most Critical Questions
Flatiron Health showcased its global Prostate and Bladder Cancer Panoramic datasets at the ASCO GU 2026 symposium, leveraging over 420,000 longitudinal patient records from the US, UK and Germany. Six research presentations highlighted critical gaps in genetic testing, equitable access...
Adapthealth Corp (AHCO) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
American Well Corp (AHCO) reported Q4 2025 revenue of $55.3 million, a 22.1% YoY decline, as the company completed its pivot from a multi‑product telehealth provider to a pure SaaS platform. Subscription revenue now represents 53% of total revenue, reflecting...
Ceribell Inc (CBLL) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Ceribell reported a 34% year‑over‑year revenue increase to $24.8 million in Q4 2025, reaching $89.1 million for the full year. Gross margins remained high at 87% for the quarter, with a cash balance of $159.3 million, while net loss widened to $13.5 million due...
India Expands Digital Health Impact Domestically and Globally
India reaffirmed its commitment to digital health at the IGSTC Strategic Conclave 2026, spotlighting telemedicine advancements for the Armed Forces and the broader public. The event announced expanded collaboration with Germany and highlighted the integration of telehealth into the Ayushman...
University of Iowa Proposes $12M Radiology Department Renovation
The University of Iowa Health Care has proposed a $12 million renovation of its downtown radiology department. The plan replaces end‑of‑life CT and nuclear medicine scanners and adds two new CT units plus a cardiac camera. The upgrade targets faster patient...
Android Mental Health Apps with 14.7M Installs Filled with Security Flaws
Security firm Oversecured scanned ten Android mental‑health apps with more than 14.7 million combined installs and uncovered 1,575 vulnerabilities. The flaws include 54 high‑severity and 538 medium‑severity issues such as insecure intent handling, plaintext API keys, and weak random number generation....
Care.com and Headspace Launch Mental Health Partnership for Caregivers
Care.com and Headspace announced a partnership to bolster mental‑health support for family caregivers. The collaboration introduces ten exclusive micro‑mindfulness videos, each under three minutes, and provides free Headspace subscriptions to Care.com members. The initiative responds to data showing roughly one‑third...
Accelerating Next Generation Medicine with New Drug Delivery Platform
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have unveiled a modular materials platform that self‑assembles with RNA to form nanoscale delivery particles. The system uses reversible host‑guest linkages, allowing rapid tuning of stability and behavior for diverse therapeutic needs. In pre‑clinical...
Prime-Edited Therapy Restores Immune Function in Teen
Below is the story of the first patient treated with a prime-edited therapeutic, developed by @PrimeMedicine in a trial led by Dr. Élie Haddad and his team at CHU Sainte-Justine. This teenager suffered from chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), an immunodeficiency,...
ASE Promoting 3D Echo as a Better Way to Treat Congenital Heart Disease
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) is championing 3‑dimensional echocardiography as the preferred tool for diagnosing and guiding treatment of congenital heart disease. ASE is standardizing image display and terminology to align imagers, interventional cardiologists, and surgeons, and will deliver...
Q&A: Datavant on AI Hype and Stock Market Volatility
Datavant CISO Dan Walsh told MobiHealthNews that AI is not in a bubble but is over‑hyped, and its true value will emerge as a productivity tool rather than a market disruptor. He likened current hype to past tech cycles, noting...
The Future of Senior Living Requires Better Care Coordination
PointClickCare’s senior‑care chief medical officer warns that senior‑living occupancy has surged to 90‑95%, rendering the old fee‑for‑service, staff‑driven model untenable. The industry must move from reactive emergency‑department transfers to proactive, in‑place care coordination. Success hinges on comprehensive digital resident records,...
Copan’s PhenoMatrix Software Gets FDA 510(k) Clearance
Copan Group’s PhenoMatrix software, an AI‑driven image assessment tool for bacterial culture plates, received FDA 510(k) clearance as a Class II in‑vitro diagnostic device. The clearance covers analysis of blood, chocolate, MacConkey and ChroMagar agar plates, enabling semi‑quantitative colony counting and...
Gen AI Is Coming for Medical Bills; 3 Ways to Prepare
Patients are turning to generative AI tools like ChatGPT to question and dramatically reduce their medical bills, with high‑profile cases showing savings of over $150,000. OpenAI reports nearly 2 million weekly messages about health insurance, indicating a surge in consumer‑driven AI...
ONC Contest: Make Patient-Exported EHI More Usable
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has launched the EHIgnite Challenge, a $490,000 competition aimed at turning raw patient‑exported electronic health information into usable, actionable insights. Phase 1, closing May 13, 2026, seeks concept and design submissions that provide...
AI Personal Trainer Revolutionizes Strength Training
I love my new AI personal trainer. In addition to knowing all my metabolic parameters & strength of each of my muscle groups, she also identifies imbalances and helps me correct it. Is this the future of strength training? https://egym.com/us
Why Red Teaming Is Vital for Health Systems, and Not Just for Cybersecurity
Red‑team exercises simulate real cyber‑attacks to test how healthcare organizations respond under pressure. Pieter Ceelen of Fortra explains that these engagements uncover hidden vulnerabilities such as credential sharing, unpatched legacy medical IoT, and unclear emergency procedures like shutting down internet...
Space Medicine Framework Can Redefine Value-Based Care Strategy
Shannon Kennedy will present a HIMSS 2026 workshop that applies space‑medicine constraints to redesign value‑based care. She introduces the "Orbital Quintuple Aim" framework, which evaluates five interdependent dimensions of health delivery under extreme resource limits. Participants act as spacecraft medical...
Officials Build Digital Backbone for Federal Health Care Reform
The Trump administration is constructing a federal digital backbone to support the Great Healthcare Plan, focusing on interoperability, patient identity verification, and transparent prescription pricing. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are advancing a Health Technology Ecosystem that will...
SIIM Offers Opportunity for Imaging Information Champions
SIIM is expanding its educational offerings to cultivate imaging informatics champions, providing training, mentorship, and a new virtual hospital sandbox for safe IT practice. The society’s partnership with RSNA has produced a National Imaging Informatics Course, creating a standardized pathway...
Designing Scalable Measurement-Based Care Systems for Expanding Health Care Organizations
Measurement‑Based Care (MBC) uses patient‑reported outcome measures like PHQ‑9 and GAD‑7 to turn subjective symptoms into quantitative data, driving up to 95 % improvement in outcomes. As patient volumes grow, manual MBC processes become inefficient, leading to incomplete assessments, clinician burnout,...
One Physician's Committed Effort to Bring Virtual Kidney Care to Rural Georgia
Georgia faces a silent kidney disease crisis, with 1.2 million adults affected and only 147,000 aware of their condition. Dr. Sharica Brookins launched Remote Renal Care in 2018, the state’s first fully virtual nephrology practice, to bridge the specialist gap in...
FDA Unveils Pathway for Ultra-Rare Disease Therapies
The FDA released draft guidance introducing the Plausible Mechanism Framework, a new approval pathway for individualized therapies targeting ultra‑rare diseases. The framework permits sponsors to seek clearance for gene‑editing and RNA‑based treatments when traditional randomized trials are infeasible due to...
Faster Cancer Screening? New AI System Offers a Better Way to Detect Abnormal Cells
Researchers unveiled Whole‑Slide Edge Tomography, an AI‑driven 3D scanning platform that digitizes every cell on a cytology slide and classifies abnormalities with near‑human accuracy. In tests on cervical samples, the system recorded AUC scores from 0.84 for early changes up...
Pixel Health Introduces One Thread™: An AI-Powered Experience Layer for Unified Patient Access
Pixel Health unveiled One Thread™, an AI‑powered experience layer that sits above existing EMR and technology stacks to unify patient portals, apps, websites, and contact centers. The platform provides a universal patient identity, personalized interactions, and automated workflow coordination while...
How Health Systems Are Tackling Behavioral Health Fragmentation
Health systems are confronting fragmented behavioral‑health delivery through multiple tactics, including rapid expansion of telepsychiatry, creation of integrated pediatric health hubs, and the launch of dedicated behavioral‑health urgent‑care sites. In West Virginia, virtual visits now account for just over half...
New Targeted Base-Editing Tool Corrects Genetic Brain Disorder in Mice
Researchers unveiled a TadA‑embedded adenine base editor (TeABE) that precisely corrects the pathogenic A‑T to G‑C mutation in the CHD3 gene of a mouse model of Snijders Blok‑Campeau syndrome. Delivered via a dual‑AAV viral system, the editor restored normal CHD3 protein...
Mastering MedTech Intelligence: The Intelligent Product Lifecycle at Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Medical Care has adopted PTC’s digital‑thread platform to create an intelligent product lifecycle that unifies design, quality and manufacturing data. The solution builds a shared product data foundation, enhancing traceability of requirements, design changes, and compliance documentation across cross‑functional...
FDA Approves New Biotronik Pacing Lead for LBBAP
Biotronik received FDA clearance for its Solia CSP S pacing lead, a device engineered specifically for left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP). The lead combines a stylet‑driven platform with a novel fixed‑helix screw, addressing procedural simplicity and electrical performance. Approval relied on...
Weill Cornell Intros New System-Wide AI Education Effort
Weill Cornell Medicine has launched the AI to Advance Medicine initiative, an enterprise‑wide program that centralizes artificial‑intelligence projects across clinical care, research and education. The effort includes a bimonthly Dean’s Lecture Series and a seed‑grant program to fund AI tools,...
Stretchy Plastics Conduct Electricity via Tiny, Whisker-Like Fibers
Researchers at Penn State used cryogenic electron microscopy to uncover how adding specific salts and water to the conductive polymer PEDOT:PSS creates hair‑like nanofibers that dramatically improve both stretchability and electrical conductivity. The nanostructure, revealed at –180 °C, shows that lithium‑based...
Breath and Barking Present a Breakthrough in Cancer Diagnosis
SpotitEarly, led by CEO Shlomi Madar, has unveiled a diagnostic platform that pairs trained detection dogs with electronic sensors and artificial intelligence to analyze patients' breath for early signs of cancer. The system can identify lung, prostate, colorectal and breast...
Mental Health Patients in Wrexham First to Benefit From New Digital Solution
Mental health wards at Wrexham Maelor Hospital have gone live with electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA), the first in Wales to also record discharge medicines in the Shared Medicines Record (SMR). The early‑adopter rollout, led by Betsi Cadwaladr University...
BVI Completes First U.S. Implantations of FDA-Approved FINEVISION HP Trifocal IOL
BVI announced the first successful U.S. implantations of its FDA‑approved FINEVISION HP hydrophobic trifocal intraocular lens. Five leading cataract and refractive surgeons performed the procedures across multiple surgical centers. The lens, cleared by the FDA in October 2025, incorporates BVI’s proprietary POD...
Why HealthTech Products Fail Clinical Deployment & How To Prevent It
Health‑tech AI pilots are booming, yet MIT’s 2025 State of AI report finds 95% fail to generate value. High‑profile failures like Forward Health’s CarePods and Olive AI illustrate how operational complexity and unfocused expansion derail scaling. The article argues that...
Before AGBT Kicks Off, Ultima Unveils the UG 200
Ultima Genomics announced the UG 200 series, a second‑generation sequencing platform that includes a single‑wafer UG 200 and a dual‑wafer UG 200 Ultra. Both instruments are half the size of the UG 100, cost less (starting at $850,000), and deliver...
Why Healthcare Scheduling Belongs Inside Salesforce
Healthcare scheduling is evolving from a back‑office task into a core operational layer within Salesforce. As providers consolidate patient data, billing, and analytics on the CRM, real‑time coordination of staff, rooms, equipment, and services becomes essential. The article outlines common...
LLMs Still Struggle With Medical Misinformation
A Lancet Digital Health study evaluated 20 large language models with over three million medical prompts, revealing a high susceptibility to misinformation. Neutral prompts led to a 32% acceptance rate of false information, which rose to 46% when embedded in...
Bandages Evolve: From Passive Cover to Active Healing
Bandages have been a central component of wound healing for centuries. In the digital health era, the wound healing process will transform the role of bandages from a passive to an active one. We dive into the current and future innovations of...
Engage Caregivers Early to Make AI a Support Tool
AI adoption in healthcare coding starts with people. Nick Judd of Cleveland Clinic shares why engaging caregivers from day one helped teams see generative AI as a support tool—not a replacement. 🔗https://t.co/cMNcrP9ZWl @ClevelandClinic @DukeHealth #AKASA #AHIMA25 #HITSM https://t.co/FtfPW5BWKP
The State Shows Its Hand
Texas has filed its Required Initial Disclosures in the antitrust lawsuit against Epic Systems, revealing a 12‑category disclosure regime that exceeds the federal FRCP 26 standard. The State’s witness list includes senior Epic executives, technical leaders, recruiting staff, several Epic‑using health...
Inclusive Design with Disabled Communities Drives Innovation
Fostering relationships with disabled communities could invite meaningful feedback during the design of assistive technologies, which could spark innovations that serve diverse populations. Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/NmJ6c2KIS5 https://t.co/zlhagQkRbw
Doctor-in-the-Loop AI Enh
Evaluating a doctor-in-the-loop AI-agent for multiple myeloma chart reviews [Nov 3, 2025] Karla Mariana Castro Bórquez et al. @HealthTree #ASH25 abs25-15262 PID 4424 https://t.co/MvBeHqOxCg #mmsm #AI #EMR #RWD https://t.co/onY817NfVr
Histopathology Genomics Predicts Myeloma Risk in 1,429 Patients
Individualized treatment risk stratification using histopathology-based genomics prediction in multiple myeloma: A multicenter Study in 1429 participants [Nov 3, 2025] Rajanna et al. @DrOlaLandgren #ASH25 abs25-11635 PID 4008 https://t.co/gOprMCjfgh #mmsm #AI #oncopath https://t.co/pjikEsgfHC
Patient‑Driven Platform Accelerates Multiple Myeloma Research
.@HealthtreeMM Hub: A Patient-Derived, Patient-Driven Clinical Cancer Information Platform Used to Overcome Hurdles & Accelerate Research in Multiple Myeloma [3/10/22] @NSweeneyPhd @AhlstromJenny @FaithEDavies1 @mtmdphd @JCOCCI_ASCO https://t.co/WOwLb9Eozv @myelomacrowd #mmsm https://t.co/dZzhU3N32Q
Patient Portal Streamlines Myeloma Imaging and Pathology Reporting
. @HealthtreeMM Patient Portal mediated myeloma patient reported diagnostic imaging and pathology testing - @NSweeneyPhd @AhlstromJenny @mtmdphd J Clin Oncol 38: 2020 (suppl; abstr e20565) #ASCO20 https://t.co/CRLXETpeMm #mmsm #oncorad #oncopath https://t.co/m1UGDimLWm