Know What's Happening in HealthTech
Know What's Happening in HealthTech
At HIMSS26, the pre‑conference highlighted how healthcare organizations are deploying digital technologies and artificial intelligence to transform care delivery. Sessions showcased AI‑driven diagnostics, telehealth expansion, and data‑interoperability initiatives across hospitals and health systems. Demonstrations illustrated real‑world use cases, from predictive analytics reducing readmissions to automated workflow automation. The event underscored rapid adoption and collaborative vendor‑partner models accelerating innovation.
In this episode, Professor David Fernández‑Rivas discusses the role of engineers as problem‑solvers and the necessity of interdisciplinary collaboration, especially between physics, chemistry, and bioengineering. He explains microfluidics—manipulating fluids at the micrometer scale—and its parallels with microelectronics, then delves into...
Great evening with Frontera’s mgmt team and Denver area founders. Frontera is using AI to impact behavioral disorders, esp Autism. No holds barred panel w/ friends Ben Hemani (Bison Ventures, ex Gates Ventures), Galym Imanbayev (Lightspeed) and Amol (Frontera, ex...
On the opening day of HIMSS26, industry leaders debated AI ethics and regulation in healthcare. Sessions emphasized deploying AI responsibly, with a human‑centered approach that safeguards patient data and outcomes. Speakers highlighted the gap between rapid AI innovation and the...
Aquila has stepped out of stealth mode, securing state and federal contracts to deploy a healthcare data integration platform aimed at cross‑jurisdiction epidemiological and population‑health tracking. Led by Dr. Jaime Bland, the startup targets the 30% of U.S. hospitals that...
Medhost unveiled Medhostone, an AI‑driven platform aimed at streamlining clinical workflows and data analytics. The product’s branding—capitalizing the “one” suffix—draws attention to its unified approach. Meanwhile, Epic Systems intensified its legal offensive against patent trolls, signaling a broader push to...
The Hong Kong Productivity Council has opened the Future Life and Health Tech Centre, a research‑development hub designed to fast‑track AI‑driven innovations across medical technology, biotechnology, functional foods and modernised traditional Chinese medicine. The facility offers an end‑to‑end platform that...
Australia’s Western NSW Local Health District has deployed a virtual support service that continuously monitors patient data across 35 rural hospitals. Algorithm‑driven early warning scores flag clinical deterioration in real time, allowing clinicians at a central hub to alert frontline...
The article highlights e‑prescribing’s rapid national rollout, which eliminated paper scripts and enabled direct provider‑to‑pharmacy transmission. However, critical gaps remain: pharmacies cannot share real‑time inventory data, and pharmacy‑to‑pharmacy transfers still rely on fax and phone calls. The author’s personal experience—an...
Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine used a non‑editing CRISPR system to activate the PPARGC1A gene, boosting mitochondrial production in human cardiomyocytes. The technique safely increased cellular energy output, as shown by higher oxygen consumption in cell...
At HIMSS26 Executive Summit, senior leaders from Parkland Health and AltaMed debated how to quantify AI’s return on investment in healthcare. They highlighted the difficulty of measuring hard financial gains while acknowledging that AI can free clinicians from documentation and...
Pivotal is piloting a proof‑of‑concept with Hyde County, N.C., and Code Blue Resources to deploy FAA Part 103 ultralight eVTOL aircraft for emergency medical response. Flight‑trained paramedics will serve as volunteer pilots, delivering rapid advanced care to high‑acuity scenes without needing...
A new guide extension catheter, CrossFAST, received FDA clearance in December 2024 and has shown improved efficiency and safety in complex percutaneous coronary interventions. Early clinical experience with four patients demonstrated rapid, deep coronary intubation without balloon‑assisted tracking, reducing dissection risk...
Researchers at UC San Diego used long‑read whole‑genome sequencing (LR‑WGS) on 267 autism families, uncovering 33% more structural variants and 38% more tandem repeats than short‑read methods. By pairing the genomic data with DNA‑methylation profiles, they could directly observe how...
At HIMSS26, CEO Hal Wolf will host a panel examining AI tools' "attitude." Leaders will discuss why understanding both the data provenance and the designer's identity, values, and goals is critical. The session aims to guide healthcare organizations in evaluating...
U.S. health‑care spending nears $5 trillion, while hospital markets become increasingly consolidated under a few large systems. Telehealth, despite high eligibility, is billed for only about 3.8% of services, indicating a behavioral adoption gap. Fee‑for‑service still dominates, covering roughly 40% of...
Kaiser Permanente Southern California evaluated a home blood pressure telemonitoring (HBPT) program over 12 months in 3,067 patients. The intervention lowered systolic blood pressure by 1.42 mm Hg and diastolic by 1.58 mm Hg, while shifting care from in‑person visits to virtual encounters. Enrollment...
Sleep Awareness Week is a great reminder that getting better rest starts with understanding how we actually sleep. What I find fascinating is how wearable technology is turning sleep into something we can truly measure and improve. Today’s smartwatches and health...
Conversational AI tools such as ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare are reshaping how patients and clinicians obtain medical information. OpenAI reports that over 5% of global ChatGPT interactions—about 40 million daily users—are health‑related, while 40% of U.S. healthcare workers use...
Intel unveiled the Core Series 2 processor at Embedded World 2026, featuring performance‑optimized P‑cores designed for deterministic, real‑time edge workloads. The chip delivers up to 4.4× lower PCIe latency, 2.5× faster deterministic response, and 1.5× higher multi‑thread throughput compared with AMD’s Ryzen 7 9700X....
A recent study of over 1,800 TAVR patients (2020‑2025) found that moderate valve oversizing of 10 %‑20 % independently reduced all‑cause mortality, while minimal (<10 %) and severe (≥20 %) oversizing showed no survival benefit. Procedural outcomes, including stroke and vascular complications, were similar...
At HIMSS 2026, Intermountain Health’s chief strategy officer Dan Liljenquist warned that today’s health‑system model cannot survive mounting workforce shortages and rising demand. He urged leaders to treat interoperability and artificial intelligence as strategic engines, not mere technical check‑boxes. Intermountain...
Medicines plus healthy habits create outcomes that neither could achieve alone. A new @StanfordMed study published in JAMA shows digital lifestyle nudges may catalyze a critical first step toward behavior change for patients on GLP-1 medications. “Achieving your best health involves a...
ECRI released its 2026 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns, placing AI diagnostic dilemmas at #1. The report warns that unchecked AI tools can cause missed or incorrect diagnoses due to automation bias and biased training data. Rural healthcare access ranks...
Kyndryl’s Healthcare Readiness Report finds a widening gap between AI ambition and safe, compliant scaling in the sector. While 55% of providers worry about keeping up with evolving regulations, only 30% feel prepared, and 76% have more AI pilots than...
MDClone introduced ADAMS Copilot, a generative‑AI‑powered data assistant embedded in its ADAMS platform. The tool lets clinicians, researchers, and operational staff ask natural‑language questions and receive validated analytics, visualizations, and insights without needing data‑engineering expertise. It runs securely behind each...
Verily Life Sciences and Samsung Electronics have announced a partnership to embed the Galaxy Watch 8 into Verily’s precision health platform, PRE. The FDA‑cleared wearable will stream continuous biometric data—such as SpO2, sleep‑apnea scores, and AFib alerts—directly into Verily’s Viewpoint...
Max Hodak (@maxhodak_) is the co-founder of Neuralink and founder of @ScienceCorp_, a company building brain-computer interfaces that can restore sight. Science has developed a tiny retinal implant that stimulates cells in the eye to help blind patients see again. More...
How New Longevity Tech Could Help You Reach 100 Daily biometrics, smart scales and AI companions are quietly rewriting the rules of aging. https://t.co/lAmYntfSP5 https://t.co/YYo4tWkgMg
Belgian neurotechnology startup ReVision Implant has received FDA Breakthrough Device designation for its visual cortical prosthesis, Occular, clearing a path toward first‑in‑human trials. The system bypasses damaged retinas or optic nerves by directly stimulating the visual cortex via a wireless...
Real question worth asking: does TPE remove more microplastics than it introduces? I have my doubts. That said, the animal data is compelling and deserves serious translational follow-up. Ultimately, it all comes down to quantifying risk versus benefit at the individual level👨⚕️...
Oracle isn’t just working to keep pace with industry change. We’re setting the standard by delivering intelligent and secure solutions that can directly impact patient care and boost efficiency across the healthcare ecosystem. Here’s what you can expect this week at...
The Elekta Gamma Knife Esprit, featuring 192 simultaneous beams and millimeter‑level precision, is cementing radiosurgery as a first‑line therapy for brain tumors, vascular lesions, and emerging functional disorders. Advances in high‑resolution MRI, functional imaging, and AI‑driven contouring have streamlined planning and...
Veterans Affairs’ homegrown VistA electronic health record, praised for usability and clinical outcomes, was replaced by Cerner’s commercial Millennium platform through a sole‑source $10 billion contract. The transition has ballooned to an estimated $37‑$50 billion, far exceeding the roughly $2 billion that modernizing...
VisualVault, a digital information management firm, will exhibit at HIMSS Global Health Conference 2026 in Las Vegas from March 9‑12, occupying booth 6424 in the Carahsoft Pavilion. The company will highlight a suite of solutions—including Digital Patient Intake, AI‑Enabled Document Workflow, Legacy Data Archive,...
Physicians are more likely to choose intensive blood‑pressure targets for elderly patients when digital health data—home BP readings and wearable mobility metrics—are available. A discrete choice experiment with 197 Australian doctors showed an odds ratio of 2.7 for intensive treatment...
Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes brand, has partnered with eSource specialist CRIO to automate clinical data flow from site systems into the Medidata Platform. The plug‑and‑play integration now serves over 2,500 research sites in roughly 30 countries, delivering near‑100% data accuracy and...
Appropriate critique of Utah going with AI for prescriptions based on a @Doctronic preprint written by the company, by @JosephSakran gift link https://t.co/HcFqBy86wb https://t.co/QpVA7HGjRT
The NIHR has granted £2.31 million to 24 projects developing technology‑assisted solutions that stop a single chronic condition from evolving into multi‑morbidity. The funding, delivered via the i4i FAST programme, targets virtual rehabilitation, AI‑driven diagnostics, home monitoring devices and digital self‑management...
Pulse Biosciences reported long‑term results from its first‑in‑human nPulse Vybrance study, showing an average 74% reduction in benign thyroid nodule volume after 15‑22 months. The data, presented at the 2026 North American Society for Interventional Thyroidology meeting, revealed no nodule...
WellSpan Health has opened “Fresh Take Eatery,” a 24/7 AI‑powered robotic kitchen at its York Hospital. The system uses RoboEatz’s Autonomous Robotic Kitchen (ARK) platform with ABB Robotics’ articulated arms, occupying just 400 sq ft. It runs four cooking modules, stores up...
Natus Medical has launched autoSCORE™, the first AI model that delivers comprehensive clinical EEG interpretations with accuracy comparable to top neurologists. The deep‑learning tool, trained on 30,000 expertly labeled recordings, received FDA 510(k) clearance for routine, long‑term monitoring and ambulatory...
Walgreens has launched a $49 per‑visit weight‑management program within its Virtual Healthcare platform, offering clinician‑guided GLP‑1 prescriptions for adults 18‑64. Patients complete an online video consult, after which licensed doctors or nurse practitioners can prescribe FDA‑approved drugs such as Wegovy....
Axena Health announced that its Leva Pelvic Health System achieved clinically meaningful improvements in fecal incontinence symptoms among women, according to a real‑world evidence study published in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. The study demonstrated statistically significant reductions in...
Cloudcure has introduced a companion weight‑management app that serves as a clinical anchor for patients using GLP‑1 therapies in Canada. The platform blends clinician‑led messaging, evidence‑based behavioral curricula, and real‑time medication titration to address the adherence gap created by transactional...
GE HealthCare has secured FDA 510(k) clearance for View, a zero‑footprint, cloud‑native diagnostic viewer that anchors its Genesis Radiology Workspace. Radiologists currently spend up to 44% of their time on non‑interpretive tasks, a bottleneck View aims to eliminate by removing...
Amazon Pharmacy has launched Eli Lilly’s Zepbound KwikPen, a multi‑dose GLP‑1 weight‑loss injector, on its platform with a self‑pay price of $299 per month. The KwikPen delivers a full month’s dose in a single pen, cutting waste and easing patient...
Retinal imaging is transitioning from a niche eye‑disease tool to a non‑invasive platform for systemic health assessment. Recent studies show that microvascular patterns in the retina can predict cardiovascular events, diabetes, kidney disease, and even early cognitive decline. AI‑driven analysis...
RFiD Discovery has introduced an automated contact‑tracing solution for hospitals that leverages Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wristbands for patients and BLE‑enabled ID badges for staff. The system captures proximity, duration, distance and location data in real time, feeding it into...
Novo Nordisk announced a partnership with telehealth provider Hims & Hers, allowing U.S. consumers to purchase FDA‑approved Ozempic and Wegovy at the same self‑pay prices as other digital platforms. The agreement eliminates compounded GLP‑1 offerings and enables patients to transition...
