How AI Is Helping Improve Heart Health in Rural Australia
Google Australia, together with Wesfarmers Health, SISU Health, the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and Latrobe Health Services, is launching a $1 million AI‑driven program to tackle heart disease in remote communities. The initiative uses Google for Health’s Population Health AI, which blends Earth AI models, Maps datasets and clinical records to surface hidden cardiovascular risks at the postcode level. By shifting from reactive treatment to proactive risk management, the partnership aims to conduct over 50,000 new health screenings in underserved areas. The proof‑of‑concept seeks to demonstrate scalable, data‑rich preventive care across the Asia‑Pacific.
A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully.
Microsoft unveiled a new Copilot feature that lets users upload health records and wearable data for AI analysis, joining Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic in testing similar health‑focused chatbots. The tools promise high‑level health overviews but raise privacy and accuracy concerns....
Verily Me: A Safe, Private New Space to Check Your Symptoms
Verily has moved its consumer health app, Verily Me, out of beta and into general availability on both the Apple App Store and Google Play. The platform is powered by Violet, an AI companion that conducts a guided, multi‑turn intake...
Safety-Net Providers Tackle AI Adoption as Medicaid Cuts Loom
Safety‑net health providers are bracing for massive Medicaid cuts enacted by the recent "Big Beautiful Bill," which will strip billions from state programs and impose strict work‑requirement reporting. At the 2026 HIMSS conference, experts warned that these changes could trigger...
Heru Showcases PretestPro™ for the Heru VR-Powered Diagnostic Headset at Vision Expo
Heru unveiled PretestPro™ at Vision Expo, a VR‑powered diagnostic headset that completes four essential eye‑pre‑tests in under two minutes. The wearable platform merges visual field, near cover test, extraocular motility and quantitative pupillometry into a single, AI‑guided workflow, replacing multiple...
Baseimmune Announces Strategic Expansion Into Fibrosis with Lead Program Targeting Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)
Baseimmune announced a new fibrosis‑focused pipeline leveraging its computational protein design platform to create multi‑pathway immunotherapies, starting with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The company aims to deliver proof‑of‑concept efficacy data for its lead IPF program in 2026‑2027, addressing the limitations...
PharmaShots Magazine-March-2026 Edition
AI is reshaping clinical trial oversight by moving from periodic checks to continuous, real‑time intelligence. Advanced analytics and machine learning now power predictive, risk‑based monitoring that aggregates data from decentralized sites, wearables, ePROs and multiple clinical systems. This integration enables...
How Collective Intelligence Could Soon Reshape Medical Decision-Making
Recent advances in collective intelligence and artificial intelligence are enabling large‑scale, data‑driven collaboration among clinicians. Studies show that pooling independent physician judgments can lift diagnostic accuracy from roughly 46% to 76%, and hybrid human‑AI constellations outperform either humans or models...
Campaigners Claim NHS Palantir System Could Be Accessed by Police and Immigration
Campaigners, including Medact and Amnesty International, warn that the NHS's £330 million Palantir Federated Data Platform (FDP) could allow police and immigration officials to access confidential patient records. Palantir denies any legal ability to share data with government departments, stating the...
Innovaccer, Databricks Partner to Operationalize Healthcare AI
Innovaccer announced its Gravity platform has earned Built on Validated Partner status with Databricks, confirming production use of the lakehouse stack. The partnership integrates Delta Lake, Databricks SQL, and Managed MLflow into Gravity’s AI infrastructure, streamlining data transformation and model...
The Prior Auth Panic: WEDI Survey Reveals Providers Are Stalling as the CMS API Deadline Looms
The CMS Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Final Rule requires all health‑care entities to deploy specific prior‑auth APIs by January 1, 2027. A February 2026 WEDI survey shows payers have largely caught up, with only 10% still idle, down from 43% a...
NHS England Image Reading Design Sprint: Two Weeks Inside Breast Screening Reporting
dxw conducted a two‑week design sprint with NHS England to overhaul reporting for breast‑screening image readers. The team mapped the end‑to‑end workflow, built a unified data model, and defined key performance indicators for readers, unit directors, and the Screening Quality...
AMA Finds 70 Percent of Physicians See AI as a Burnout-Reduction Tool
The AMA’s 2026 Physician Survey shows AI adoption has more than doubled, with 81% of doctors now using AI tools versus 38% in 2023. Physicians average 2.3 AI use cases, driven by clinical documentation and research summarization. Seventy percent view...
AI Pre-Visit Chat Delivers Concise Summaries for Doctors
A very important prospective (!) study from Google and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center about using AI before a new ambulatory primary care visit. The patient talks with a conversational AI that will summarize every important detail for the physician by...
Insulet Reports EVOLUTION 2 Study Results for FCL Automated Insulin Delivery System in Type 2 Diabetes
Insulet presented data from its EVOLUTION 2C feasibility study of a fully closed‑loop (FCL) automated insulin delivery system for adults with type 2 diabetes at ATTD'26. In the 24‑patient trial, the final algorithm raised time‑in‑range (TIR) to an average 68%,...
Olympus Unveils VISERA ELITE III Platform to Improve Surgical Visualisation
Olympus has introduced the VISERA ELITE III surgical imaging platform in the United States, the third joint offering from the Sony‑Olympus Medical partnership. The system combines continuous auto‑focus, true 4K, 3D, narrow‑band and fluorescence (IR/ICG) imaging in a single software‑driven unit that...
EP503: Let's Go From Lazy PPO Networks to Smart Collaboration With Direct-to-Employer Specialty Care, With Ryan Wells; Leo Spector, MD,...
In this episode, host Stacey Richter talks with Ryan Wells (founder of Health Here), Dr. Leo Spector (CEO of OrthoCarolina), and Adam Stavisky (benefits consultant) about the need for direct, data‑driven collaboration between self‑insured employers and specialty physicians. They explore...
A Balloon Electrochemical Sensor for Conformal Interfacing With Intestinal Wall and Real‐Time Monitoring of Serotonin Release
Researchers have created a balloon‑shaped electrochemical sensor using gold nanotubes that expands to conform to the soft curvature of the intestinal lumen. The device is inserted endoluminally, inflates to mimic physiological distension, and records real‑time serotonin (5‑HT) release from the...
GSK Backs £11m Centre to Build Digital Twins of Organs for Faster Drug Discovery
GSK has pledged £11 million to launch the Modelling‑Informed Medicine Centre (MiMeC), a joint venture with Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. The centre will develop digital twins—computer‑based replicas of lungs, liver and kidneys—to run in‑silico experiments and speed...
North West London and North Central London ICBs Look to Procure £3.8m End-to-End Digital Solution
North West London and North Central London Integrated Care Boards have launched a preliminary market engagement to procure an end‑to‑end digital solution for complex care commissioning, with a budget of up to £3.8 million. The platform will replace outdated systems, improve...
Codoxo’s Deepfake Detection Identifies AI-Generated Medical Records for Health Plans
Codoxo has launched Deepfake Detection, an AI‑driven solution that scans medical documentation, diagnostic images and claim context in seconds to flag synthetic or manipulated records. The tool embeds explainable risk scores into payer fraud‑prevention workflows, enabling health plans to intercept...
Closing the Gap: Why Timely Pediatric ADHD Assessment Is a Digital Health Imperative
ADHD affects roughly 7 million children in the United States—about 11.4% of the 3‑17‑year‑old population—and prevalence has risen by a million since 2016. Nearly 30% of diagnosed children receive no medication or behavioral therapy, and formal assessment remains uneven across geography,...
C2N Diagnostics Partners with BeauBrain Healthcare to Offer PrecivityAD2 Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Disease in South Korea
C2N Diagnostics has signed a partnership with BeauBrain Healthcare to introduce its PrecivityAD2 blood test for Alzheimer’s disease in South Korea, targeting patients aged 50 and older with mild cognitive impairment or dementia. Clinical studies published in JAMA and npj...
AI Robotics Make Patients the New Point of Care
From skin checking applications and AI to remote care devices and robotics, the field is going through a paradigm shift making patients more and more the point of care. Smart algorithms will soon diagnose skin cancer, dermatologists consult patients online, and...
Cairn Surgical Reports the FDA De Novo 510(k) Submission for BCL System to Improve Accuracy of Lumpectomy
Cairn Surgical has filed a De Novo 510(k) application with the U.S. FDA for its Breast Cancer Locator (BCL) System, a device designed to improve the accuracy of breast‑conserving surgery. The company completed a pivotal U.S. trial that demonstrated a...
How UK Can Adopt Digital-First Community Care to Provide Equitable Healthcare
The UK National Health Service faces widening health inequities driven by ageing demographics, workforce shortages, and funding gaps, especially in deprived regions. A digital‑first community care model—leveraging remote patient monitoring, telehealth, AI‑driven personalization, and integrated data analytics—offers a pathway to...
Wiley and OpenEvidence Partner to Integrate Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Into Clinical AI
Wiley is licensing its extensive portfolio of peer‑reviewed medical content to OpenEvidence, the clinical AI platform used by more than 40% of U.S. physicians. The deal brings the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Clinical Answers, and over 400 Wiley...
Dr. Tanvi Jayaraman on Oura Ring’s First Female-Focused LLM and the Future of AI Wellness Chatbots
Oura Health, the Finnish wearable maker behind 5 million rings, has unveiled its first proprietary large language model (LLM) built exclusively for women’s health. The model powers Oura’s in‑app Advisor chatbot, delivering answers drawn from clinically vetted studies rather than generic...
Global Map Reveals Rapid Growth of Medical Drone Projects
The Global Map of Medical Drone Projects And Trials We analyzed the state of medical drones worldwide. To achieve that, we had to dive into the global literature and announcements to find all of these exciting projects that involved the use...
AI Co‑pilot: Adopt or Risk Obsolescence for Radiologists
AI is rapidly improving at reading medical images. But the real question is not whether it will replace radiologists. Most experts see AI becoming a powerful co-pilot: spotting patterns faster, flagging anomalies earlier and helping radiologists focus on complex diagnoses and...
Dementia Telehealth Company Isaac Health Adding Health Systems to Partner Mix
Isaac Health, a telehealth platform for brain health and dementia, announced a partnership with NYU Langone Health, adding a major health‑system channel to its primarily payer‑focused model. The collaboration creates an integrated referral pathway that combines virtual specialty care with...
GenAI Health Tools Multiply: ChatGPT, Claude, CoPilot
In January there was ChatGPT Health, Claude Health. Today there's Microsoft CoPilot Health. And more to come in the genAI -> health landscape https://t.co/TInH9YTvwA
NiCE Sets Real‑Time AI‑First Care Standard
NiCE is defining the next standard of care... with data that moves as fast as the patient. Visit Booth 4843 to see #AI-first #CX in action. @NICELtd #HIMSS26 #HIMSS2026 https://t.co/3ffKU5tupi
Carrum, Virta Join Forces on Employer Weight Management Solution
Carrum Health and Virta Health announced a partnership delivering a full‑spectrum weight‑management solution for self‑insured employers. The collaboration links Carrum’s value‑based surgical care with Virta’s virtual nutrition coaching, medication management and GLP‑1 prescribing. It creates a seamless pathway from conservative...
Cearvol Nano OTC Hearing Aids Boost Volume Everywhere
Wish you could hear everything around you, whether you're at a noisy restaurant or just watching TV at home? I check out the Cearvol Nano OTC Hearing Aids in various locations and find it's a great way to turn up...
Identity Matching Errors Undermine Healthcare Software Efficiency
Duplicate patients. Broken workflows. Support tickets piling up. Bad identity matching quietly destroys healthcare software. Learn the warning signs → Download the free eBook 🔗 https://t.co/SJg2gLlUzK @rhapsodyhealth #healthcareSaaS #HITSM https://t.co/fTTcYnGhHM
Research Supports the Integral Role of Ultrasound in Treating Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Sonex Health and the Institute of Advanced Ultrasound Guided Procedures published a manuscript in the Journal of Ultrasound Medicine confirming that ultrasound‑guided carpal tunnel release (UGCTR) is as effective as traditional open or endoscopic surgery while offering superior patient comfort...
Experts Develop First-of-Its-Kind Fully Robotic MRI-Compatible System for Neurosurgery
Researchers at Children’s National Hospital have unveiled BrainBot, the first fully MRI‑compatible robotic system designed for neurosurgery. The air‑powered platform delivers millimetric accuracy while allowing surgeons to image and intervene simultaneously inside the scanner. Backed by a $2 million NIH grant,...
FDA Clears New Large-Bore Catheter for Challenging Stroke Cases
Toro Neurovascular has obtained FDA clearance for its Toro 88 Superbore Catheter, a large‑bore device engineered for challenging stroke interventions. The catheter promises enhanced support, trackability, and stability, addressing the time‑sensitive nature of neurovascular procedures. UCLA interventional neuroradiologist Dr. Satoshi Tateshima...
Giovanni Traverso
Giovanni Traverso, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician‑scientist who bridges gastroenterology and engineering as an associate member of the Broad Institute, director of the Laboratory for Translational Engineering, MIT associate professor, and Harvard gastroenterologist. His lab creates ingestible electronics, robotic capsules,...
Safer Large DNA Insertion Moves Genetic Medicine Toward Scalability
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, in partnership with Full Circles Therapeutics, have introduced a circular single‑stranded DNA donor platform called INSTALL that enables kilobase‑scale gene insertion without triggering the cGAS immune sensor. The method combines a short double‑stranded DNA segment...
Simple 'Cocktail' Of Amino Acids Dramatically Boosts Power of mRNA Therapies and CRISPR Gene Editing
Researchers at Biohub identified a three‑amino‑acid cocktail—methionine, arginine and serine—that dramatically improves lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery of therapeutic mRNA and CRISPR components. Co‑administering the supplement boosted protein expression up to 20‑fold and raised gene‑editing rates from roughly 25% to nearly...
Michael Dalton, Ovatient
Ovatient, led by CEO Michael Dalton, is a telehealth platform built directly on Epic’s electronic health record system. The service originates from health‑system partnerships such as the Medical University of South Carolina and Metro Health in Cleveland. By embedding in...
Re: The Impact of Skin Tone on Performance of Pulse Oximeters Used by NHS England COVID Oximetry @Home Scheme: Measurement...
A recent BMJ letter highlights a study showing pulse oximeters used in NHS England’s COVID Oximetry @home scheme perform less accurately on patients with darker skin tones. The author cites the U.S. FDA’s January 2025 draft guidance, which calls for...
Proton Beam Hope for Asbestos Cancer Patients
UK researchers have launched a proton‑beam trial to treat mesothelioma, an aggressive asbestos‑related cancer with no cure. The therapy delivers high‑dose radiation precisely, aiming to lift two‑year survival from roughly 30% to 50%. About 50 patients have been enrolled so...
Endometriosis Study Aims for Safer Diagnosis
A Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust‑led clinical trial is testing a non‑invasive electrode‑based method to diagnose endometriosis, marking the first such study within the NHS. The technique records small‑intestine muscle activity, which researchers claim shows a pattern unique to patients with...
Healthcare Organizations Are Using AI to Solve Real Problems
Dr. Ryan Ries outlines several AI deployments that are delivering tangible results in healthcare. At BreakAway Games, an Amazon Bedrock‑based virtual patient platform mimics real‑world patient variability, providing 24/7 training for nursing students and reducing reliance on standardized actors. Paynela’s...
For ₦1,300 a Month, inDrive Drivers in Nigeria Can Now Access Healthcare Services
InDrive Nigeria has teamed up with health‑tech startup Heala to embed affordable medical coverage into its driver app. Eligible Platinum drivers can subscribe to plans starting at ₦1,300 ($1) per month, granting tele‑consultations, prescriptions, pharmacy pick‑up and diagnostic services without...
Maven Clinic Launches Direct-to-Consumer Platform Nationwide Featuring GLP-1 and Hormone Care
Maven Clinic, known for its B2B telehealth services covering 28 million lives, has opened a beta waitlist for a new direct‑to‑consumer platform that will be available to women across the United States. The DTC offering bundles virtual access to more...
Amazon Wants to Be Your First Stop for Health Questions —Here’s What Its New AI Assistant Does
Amazon has launched Health AI, an artificial‑intelligence assistant embedded in its website and mobile app that lets shoppers check symptoms, receive possible causes, and get treatment suggestions. The tool can direct users to telehealth visits or nearby providers, extending Amazon’s...