The Front Door Test
A health system’s new virtual‑care program let a former CIO schedule a same‑day appointment, complete intake via an app, and see a physician in a 15‑minute video visit. The experience showcased rapid, real‑time scheduling and thorough clinical interaction, proving virtual care can serve as a viable front door for patients lacking primary‑care access. However, the workflow forced redundant insurance entry and required a mobile‑only interface, highlighting integration and usability gaps. The author argues that while virtual care eases access shortages, seamless system integration remains essential for broader adoption.
Legacy EHRs Can't Keep Pace with AI‑Native Competition
The SaaS-pocalypse playing out in public stocks reflects a real fear. Legacy SaaS companies, even with their existing distribution and install base, may be unsuccessful in bolting on AI capabilities to their legacy platforms. There is fear that their user...
AI at the Bedside: Scaling Innovation Without Compromising Patient Safety
Artificial intelligence has moved from pilot projects to core clinical tools, with the FDA authorizing more than 1,400 AI‑enabled medical devices by the end of 2025, most via the fast‑track 510(k) pathway. Radiology dominates usage, but AI is expanding into...
Vida Health Launches Metabolic Control Framework to Manage Obesity, Diabetes, and MASH
Vida Health has introduced a Metabolic Control Framework that shifts from isolated disease programs to a population‑level strategy for obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, MASH, OSA and COPD. The framework relies on a proprietary Metabolic Control Index, which aggregates clinical, biometric...
Sleep Cycle Launches New Sleep Score Built on Recent Research
Sleep Cycle has introduced a new Sleep Score within its app, built on recent scientific findings that prioritize sleep regularity and quality over sheer duration. The score aggregates three pillars—Duration, Quality, and Routine—with Routine receiving the highest weight to encourage...
Vendor Notebook: AI Tackles an Evolving Menu of Organizational Needs
Healthcare vendors are rolling out a suite of AI tools aimed at streamlining billing, coding, imaging, and fraud prevention. CentralReach’s AI agents cut revenue‑cycle work by up to 40%, while Innovaccer’s Flow Capture autonomously codes roughly 80% of patient encounters....
Digital Health Tools Must Reflect Stakeholders' Lived Experiences
Digital health developers are being urged to embed nurses, physicians, and patients directly into the design process, a stance championed by Susan Hull, the HIMSS‑ANI Nursing Informatics Changemaker honoree. Hull argues that tools built without real‑world clinical input often miss...
UCLA Health Creates Leadership Role for AI Innovation
UCLA Health has appointed Katherine Andriole, PhD, as the inaugural associate dean for health AI strategy and innovation at the David Geffen School of Medicine, effective March 26. She also assumes directorship of the UCLA Center for AI and SMART Health....
Why Reproducible Analytics Is Critical for AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences
AI adoption in healthcare and life sciences is surging, with physician usage climbing to 66 % and firms investing heavily in machine‑learning platforms. Despite this momentum, a reproducibility crisis looms, as more than 70 % of researchers report difficulty replicating results, jeopardizing...
NYC Health + Hospitals Rolls Out AI Tool to Boost Maternal Safety
NYC Health + Hospitals has launched a $2.75 million program deploying PeriWatch Vigilance, an AI‑driven early‑warning and decision‑support system for maternal‑fetal care. The tool, currently active at the North Central Bronx hospital, will be expanded to all 11 system hospitals by...
AI Detects Severe Symptoms in Childhood Cancer Survivors
AI models can accurately assess the health care needs of childhood cancer survivors by analyzing patient conversations, with complex prompting strategies significantly improving detection of severe symptoms and their impact. healthtech
Democratizing Access: How Community Hospitals Can Drive the Next Wave of Robotic Bronchoscopy
Second‑generation robotic bronchoscopy platforms now embed advanced imaging, delivering higher diagnostic accuracy for peripheral lung lesions while simplifying workflow. Community hospitals can adopt these systems using single‑use bronchoscopes, eliminating reprocessing costs and reducing procedure time. Relocating the service to endoscopy...
India Launches CALM‑Brain, First Nationwide Psychiatric Data Repository
India’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro‑Sciences (NIMHANS) unveiled CALM‑Brain, the country’s first digital repository of multimodal psychiatric data, with more than 2,000 participants from 900 families. The launch, led by philanthropist Rohini Nilekani, positions India at the forefront...
WPI AI Model Predicts Alzheimer’s with 93% Accuracy From MRI Scans
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute unveiled an artificial‑intelligence model that identifies Alzheimer’s disease from MRI scans with 93% accuracy. The breakthrough could shift screening from symptom‑based to image‑based detection, accelerating treatment and trial enrollment.
Hartford HealthCare and KHealth Deploy PatientGPT AI Chatbot to Streamline Care and Underwriting
Hartford HealthCare and KHealth introduced PatientGPT, a generative AI chatbot that plugs into Epic’s MyChart platform and can route patients to clinicians 24/7. The tool arrives as 32% of adults already turn to AI for health advice, raising questions about...
Severance Hospital to Develop Online Tool for Calculating Early Liver Metastasis
Severance Hospital in South Korea has created an AI model, LiMPC, that predicts early liver metastasis in pancreatic cancer patients using routine blood tests. The model was trained on data from 2,657 patients and externally validated on 272 patients from...
US-Based Alzheimer's Network Adopts Korean Imaging AI and More Briefs
South Korean AI firms are expanding into the U.S. market as Neurophet signs an MOU with the Alzheimer’s Network for Treatment and Diagnostics (ALZ‑NET) to provide FDA‑cleared imaging software for amyloid monitoring, and JLK receives FDA 510(k) clearance for its...
Worki Uses AI to Cut Healthcare Overhead at Scale
Worki, an AI‑driven workforce platform, targets the 34% of health‑system overhead tied to non‑clinical roles by unifying fragmented HR systems and deploying intelligent agents. The solution offers a phased, data‑backed pathway that can deliver 20% or more cost reductions, projecting...
Biomarker Panel Distinguishes Alcohol Vs. Metabolic Liver Disease
Researchers at UC San Diego introduced the MetALD‑ALD Prediction Index (MAPI), a biomarker panel that leverages routine blood tests to differentiate alcohol‑associated liver disease from metabolic steatotic liver disease. In a 503‑patient US cohort, MAPI achieved 60% sensitivity, 80% specificity,...
Human Longevity, Inc. Teams with LEV Foundation to Study Centenarians
Human Longevity, Inc. and the LEV Foundation announced a strategic partnership to analyze blood samples from centenarians and supercentenarians. The collaboration will use HLI's AI‑driven precision longevity platform and LEV’s expertise in lifespan extension to uncover molecular drivers of exceptional...
Hims & Hers Shifts to Branded GLP‑1s and Telehealth After Novo Nordisk Deal
Hims & Hers announced it will stop actively marketing compounded GLP‑1 drugs and focus on a broader portfolio of FDA‑approved, branded GLP‑1s through a new partnership with Novo Nordisk. The pivot follows a 70% stock plunge and aims to sustain...
Neurophet and ALZ-NET Sign MoU on Alzheimer’s Therapies
South Korean AI firm Neurophet has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Alzheimer’s Network for Treatment and Diagnostics (ALZ‑NET) to build an imaging‑monitoring infrastructure for emerging Alzheimer’s therapies. The deal brings Neurophet’s FDA‑cleared tools—Aqua, Scale PET, and Aqua AD...
Legion Health Deploys AI Bot to Prescribe Mental Health Meds in Utah
Legion Health, a Y Combinator‑backed startup, launched an AI‑driven bot that can renew select psychiatric medications for patients in Utah for a $20 monthly fee. The service, the first in the U.S. authorized to let AI prescribe mental‑health drugs, begins...
MyTomorrows and CUN Partner on AI-Assisted Patient Trial Matching
myTomorrows, a Dutch health‑tech firm, has partnered with Spain’s Clínica Universidad de Navarra (CUN) to embed an AI‑driven clinical‑trial matching engine directly into CUN’s electronic health record. The system leverages large language models to parse multilingual unstructured notes and structured...
WashU Team Uses Nanodiamond Quantum Sensors to Image Living Cells in Real Time
A multidisciplinary team at Washington University in St. Louis implanted nanodiamond quantum sensors inside living mouse cells and recorded real‑time magnetic and temperature fluctuations from mitochondria. The breakthrough, presented at the March 16, 2026 APS meeting, demonstrates a new route...
Executive War College 2026 to Spotlight AI, Workforce Solutions, and Financial Strategy for Clinical Labs
The 31st Annual Executive War College will convene April 28‑29 in New Orleans, bringing together clinical laboratory executives to address reimbursement, staffing, compliance, and emerging technologies. A new Executive Forum on Digital Pathology Management will spotlight AI‑driven workflows and data...
How Anesthetics Destabilize the Brain: Scientists Stumble upon Common Mechanism
MIT researchers discovered that three widely used anesthetics—propofol, ketamine and dexmedetomidine—produce an identical destabilization of brain dynamics, measurable as a loss of dynamic stability. Using EEG‑based perturbation analysis, they showed that despite distinct molecular targets, each drug pushes the brain...
Northwestern Deploys New Mobile Stroke Unit Equipped with 32-Slice CT Scanner
Northwestern Medicine has upgraded its mobile stroke unit (MSU) with a 32‑slice CT scanner, replacing the older 16‑slice system. The new, smaller‑footprint vehicle can perform advanced imaging en route, allowing clinicians to differentiate ischemic from hemorrhagic strokes before hospital arrival....
Top 5 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Use Wearable Data Today
Wearable devices have moved beyond consumer hype, offering concrete value for healthcare providers. The article outlines five practical pathways—remote patient monitoring, EHR integration, patient engagement tools, security/compliance foundations, and focused use‑case design—to embed wearable data without overhauling existing IT stacks....
HL7 Launches Real‑Time Medical Device Interoperability Accelerator
On March 5, 2026, HL7 International launched the Caliper FHIR Accelerator, an implementation community aimed at real‑time medical device data interoperability. The initiative builds on HL7’s 2025 device‑workgroup and aligns with standards from IEEE, ISO, IEC, and IHE. By extending...
Two GA Tech ATDC Startups — Nephrodite and OrthoPreserve — Secure FDA Breakthrough Device Designation
Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center announced that two of its HealthTech portfolio companies, Nephrodite and OrthoPreserve, have each received the FDA’s Breakthrough Device designation. The program promises accelerated regulatory interaction, more frequent agency meetings, and priority review. Nephrodite’s solution...
AlphaFold Helps Researcher Treat Dog’s Cancer, Inspiring Hope
Hey ChatGPT, cure cancer, make no mistake. The story of the machine learning researcher who used AlphaFold to treat his dog’s cancer has captured hearts around the world. Faith in humanity restored. #chatgpt #artificialintelligence #AI #cancersurvivor #cancercure #cancer #drugdiscovery @PawlowskiMario @chidambara09 @Ym78200 @CurieuxExplorer...
Social Care Needs to Accelerate Tech Adoption
Adult social care leaders in the UK are urging rapid adoption of technology‑enabled care (TEC) after a PA Consulting and TEC Services Association report. The survey of 79 decision‑makers shows 78% want to accelerate TEC programmes and 96% would redesign...
LLMs Enable DIY mRNA Vaccine for Pets
The coolest meeting I had this week with was Paul, who used ChatGPT and other LLMs to create an mRNA vaccine protocol to save his dog Rosie. It is amazing story. "The chat bots empowered me as an individual to act...
Leaders in Lab Automation: Diagnostic Companies Setting the Standard for Efficiency
Laboratory automation is becoming essential as testing volumes surge and workflows grow more complex. Leading diagnostic vendors—Danaher, Siemens Healthineers, and Abbott—offer end‑to‑end platforms that integrate pre‑analytic sorting, AI‑driven error detection, and post‑analytic data management. Danaher’s DxA 5000 claims up to an...
Apple Watch Accurately Tracks Sleep Apnea, Matches CPAP Data
I'd remind everyone that the Apple watch sleep apnea measurement is an absolute triumph of engineering - it matches very closely what I see from the data on my CPAP machine. (The watch, unlike the machine, scores some events with...
AI-Designed mRNA Vaccine Targets Cancer Precisely
Now imagine every cancer patient had access to this technology (they should) "A specifically designed mRNA vaccine - a precision-guided weapon to strike the cancer, developed with a pipeline designed by ChatGPT o1, implemented for candidate development by Gemini Pro 2,...
Home Testing Kits Could Bridge the Cervical Screening Gap for Disabled Women, New Study Finds
A new study published in the Journal of Medical Screening finds that more than half of physically disabled women in the UK would choose at‑home HPV self‑sampling kits over traditional clinic‑based cervical smears. The research, which surveyed 1,493 women with...
Oura Ring 4 Crowned Top Sleep Tracker After Year‑long Test
A Tom's Guide writer who wore the Oura Ring 4 every day for a year rates it the best sleep‑tracking wearable of 2026, citing 90+ sleep scores and deeper insight into sleep stages. The endorsement comes as luxury jewelers launch...
ACLCM Launches Lifestyle Medicine Whole Person Health Index to Embed Holistic Care in EHRs
The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) introduced the Lifestyle Medicine Whole Person Health Index (LMWPHI), a point‑of‑care assessment embedded in Epic and slated for eClinicalWorks integration. The tool captures lifestyle data across six pillars, aiming to make whole‑person care...
AI Automates Radiology Tasks, but Radiologists Still Thrive
On Lex Fridman's podcast this week, Jensen Huang brought up radiology and AI, highlighting radiology as an important data point for how we can expect AI to influence jobs. He talked about how nearly a decade ago, AI researchers predicted...
Blood Test May Forecast Alzheimer’s Risk Decades Early
Could a simple blood test predict your risk of getting #Alzheimers dementia years, or even decades, before you experience memory loss? https://t.co/oLROODZbFz
Health System CIOs Say EHR Downtime Resilience Requires Organization-Wide Ownership, Rehearsed Plans, and Structured Documentation
The panel explored how health systems can achieve operational resilience during EHR downtime, emphasizing that resilience is an organization‑wide capability rather than just an IT issue. CIOs Chris Akeroy (Lee Health) and Stuart James (Christus Health) highlighted the need for...
UCLA Health Omits Patient Polygenic Risk Scores From Study
Kudos to @UCLAHealth for assessing genomics of their patient population, published @CellCellPress today. But why weren't the results of increased polygenic risk scores (PGS) provided to the patient participants? https://t.co/F15isJfDQy https://t.co/3AW7peHa1C
Flexpa Shows Patient‑Agent Future, Decentralization Neutral
“The @Flexpa experience was my big ah-ha. Decentralization isn’t inherently good or bad - it’s more of the current, unchangable state of things.” - @AndreaCoravos 👌 - patient to agent is the future of healthcare and flexpa has built the infra...
GetHealthy Launches Script, an AI-Enabled Platform Expanding Practitioner Commerce Beyond Supplements Across Seven Product Categories
GetHealthy unveiled Script, an AI‑enabled clinical scripting platform that lets health practitioners prescribe comprehensive protocols across seven product categories, from supplements to pet health and diagnostic testing. The solution taps a catalog of over 400 vetted brands and integrates with...
AI Boosts Care but May Raise Healthcare Costs
AI is providing both immense utility to clinicians, but will also drive up costs if the incentives in our current system stay the same. This may be correct billing, but it's also still MORE billing. https://t.co/jmcWQ3q3EK
AI Smart Glasses Secure Funding for Dementia Care, Efficacy Unclear
AI smart glasses win major funding to support dementia care, though real-world effectiveness and long-term impact remain uncertain despite early promising observations. https://t.co/vX7jBV2aJt