All of This Has Happened Before
The author compares four high‑profile digital‑health failures—Olive AI, IBM Watson Health, Carbon Health and Babylon Health—to reveal a repeatable playbook of overpromising and underdelivering. In each case, bold claims were funded before any independent proof, with elite investors and government endorsements standing in for missing data. The companies mis‑branded rudimentary technology as AI, expanded scope to dodge accountability, and only admitted defeat after external investigations forced a reckoning. The piece argues these patterns erode clinician confidence and patient trust in health‑tech innovation.
G2 Speech Achieves Self-Certified Supplier Status on NHS England AVT Registry
G2 Speech has been accepted as a self‑certified supplier on the NHS England Ambient Voice Technology (AVT) Registry. The designation confirms that its SpeechAmbient platform meets NHS safety, data‑security and performance standards. By joining the registry, G2 Speech can more...
Why Accountability in Medicine Must Guide Health Care AI
Healthcare AI is exploding, with ambient scribes and large‑language‑model chatbots promising faster documentation and patient interaction. Yet the authors argue that accuracy alone is insufficient; without built‑in accountability, harmful errors become opaque. They call for a shift from generative AI...
Thursday April 23, 2026 — Field Note
Stereotaxis announced a deal to acquire robotic PCI developer Robocath for up to $45 million, including a $20 million cash upfront payment and up to $25 million in milestone‑based earn‑outs tied to regulatory and commercial progress. The acquisition brings Robocath’s R‑One+ platform—currently CE‑marked...
SurGenTec Adds Navigation Option to FDA-Cleared SI Joint Fusion System
SurGenTec received FDA 510(k) clearance for its TiLink navigation instruments, which integrate with Medtronic’s StealthStation platform to provide real‑time guidance during minimally invasive sacroiliac (SI) joint fusion. The new tools are designed to help surgeons locate, access, and prepare the...
Adrian Owen & Faraz Shafaghi, Creyos
Creyos, a neurological testing firm co‑founded by neuroscientist Adrian Owen and product leader Faraz Shafaghi, offers a cognitive assessment platform that delivers objective baseline data at the point of care. The tool is now incorporated into annual wellness visits and...
British Business Bank Commits £100m to Health Tech Investment Fund
The British Business Bank has pledged £100 million (about $127 million) to the Apposite Healthcare Growth I fund, its largest commitment to date. The fund will back UK health‑tech firms across medical products, diagnostics, digital health and pharma‑outsourcing services. By writing a...
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Clinicians
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT for Clinicians, a medically‑tuned version of its GPT‑5.4 engine aimed at individual health providers. The service is free for verified U.S. physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and pharmacists, and offers higher usage limits, workflow‑specific skills, and a...
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Gradually, Then Suddenly: Dr. Robert Wachter on Health Care’s Giant AI Leap [PODCAST]
In a KevinMD podcast, UCSF professor Robert Wachter discusses his new book, *A Giant Leap*, which argues that generative AI is the first technology to fundamentally reshape the roles of doctors, patients, and health‑care leaders. He contrasts emerging AI tools...
Neuromodulation and Nerve Ablation for Chronic Pain with NeuroOne CEO Dave Rosa — Episode 252
NeuroOne Medical Technologies, led by veteran CEO Dave Rosa, is advancing minimally invasive electrodes that combine nerve ablation, neuromodulation, and direct drug delivery for conditions like epilepsy and chronic pain. Rosa, who has spent three decades at firms such as...
Curve Biosciences Announces Key AI and Clinical Advancements of Whole-Body Intelligence for Chronic Diseases
Curve Biosciences announced two major milestones: its genomic AI foundation model will be presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) and its Whole‑Body Blood Test demonstrated strong performance in a real‑world liver cirrhosis monitoring study. The study enrolled...
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Is First in Region to Offer Sedation-Free Evaluation of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract in Children
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital has become the first South Florida facility to offer sedation‑free transnasal endoscopy (TNE) for pediatric patients, using EvoEndo’s single‑use system. The TNE procedure evaluates the upper gastrointestinal tract without the need for anesthesia, IV lines, or prolonged...
Founders Everywhere: Akash Magoon
Adonis, an AI‑powered revenue‑cycle platform for U.S. hospitals, announced a $40 million Series C round led by Quadrille Capital. The company aims to automate claim submission, denials and appeals, boosting net collection rates into the upper 90s and halving payment cycles. Founder...
Video Wednesday
On April 22, 2026 the blog posted a short video showcasing the da Vinci SP surgical robot. The clip demonstrates the platform’s single‑port design, 3‑D high‑definition imaging, and articulated instruments that operate through a single incision. The da Vinci SP,...
Keebler Health Raises $16M to Advance AI in Healthcare
Keebler Health announced a $16 million Series A round to expand its AI-driven platform for clinical and operational decision‑making. The solution uses machine learning to surface hidden risk patterns, enabling earlier interventions and cost reductions. CEO Isaac Park says the funds will...
How AI Is Being Used in Dentistry
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping UK dentistry, with roughly 40% of practices already deploying AI tools. Chat‑powered virtual receptionists now handle bookings and patient queries, cutting response times from hours to seconds and slashing missed appointments. Clinical AI analyzes X‑rays...
New Study Published Evaluating PharmaSens All-in-One Insulin Patch Pump
PharmaSens AG announced that the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology published data from the first clinical feasibility study of its niia all‑in‑one insulin patch pump, which combines insulin delivery with continuous glucose monitoring. The single‑arm trial enrolled 18 adults...
New Tool Launches to Support Women Through Post-Loss Journey
Carea has introduced a free "Healing After Loss" mode within its pregnancy and postnatal wellbeing app, offering on‑demand mental‑health tools, expert guidance, and a peer community for women who have experienced miscarriage or baby loss. The feature activates automatically when...
AI Chatbots Recommending Chemo Alternatives, Study Warns
A study by the Lundquist Institute evaluated major AI chatbots—including Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI and DeepSeek—on cancer‑treatment queries. Experts rated almost half of the responses as problematic, with 30% deemed somewhat inaccurate and 19.6% highly misleading. The bots often...
Part 2: The Spaces Between
Bright Frontier, a new platform founded by Janis Naeve and Tim Fitzpatrick, maps systemic gaps in kidney and cardiometabolic (CKM) care and proposes four critical "bridges"—signal to decision, decision to action, action to accountability, and accountability to signal. The analysis...
Strategic Insights: The Last King of Babylon
Babylon Health, founded by Iranian‑born entrepreneur Ali Parsa in 2013, rode a wave of AI‑driven telemedicine hype to a 2021 IPO that valued the company at $4.2 billion. Within two years, mounting regulatory scrutiny, clinician distrust and operational shortfalls forced the...
Acorys System Gains FDA Clearance for Real-Time 4D Cardiac Mapping
Corify Care’s Acorys system received FDA clearance, offering clinicians a real‑time, four‑chamber view of cardiac electrical activity without the need for CT or MRI scans. The platform merges 3D anatomical modeling with live electrical signals, creating what the company calls...
Architecting Life: Authoring the Future of Species with Dr. Adrian Woolfson
Dr. Adrian Woolfson argues that DNA must be treated as a programmable engineering material, enabling the design of living systems from houses to organs. By decoding DNA's generative grammar, humanity could author genomes and potentially rewrite its own code, ushering...
Google's 'Fitbit Air' Will Reportedly Compete with Whoop for 24/7 Health Tracking
Google is preparing to launch a new fitness tracker dubbed Fitbit Air, a screen‑less, thin band designed to compete directly with Whoop’s 24/7 health monitoring devices. The device is expected to retail for about $100 and arrive on May 16,...
Randomization Inside a Medicare Payment Model, It's Really Cool
The CMS Innovation Center’s ACCESS Model launches a ten‑year, national test of outcome‑aligned payments for technology‑enabled chronic care, offering fixed payments of $90 to $420 per beneficiary across four disease tracks. A distinctive feature is the 90:10 randomization of eligible...
NIPT in 2026: How AI and Next-Gen Sequencing Are Changing Prenatal Screening
Non‑invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in the UK is being reshaped by next‑generation sequencing and artificial‑intelligence algorithms. AI‑driven analysis lifts the positive predictive value for trisomies to roughly 88%, while proprietary enrichment steps like Focus Plus increase fetal DNA fractions 3.6‑fold, slashing...
Please Don’t Trust Your Chatbot for Medical Advice
Recent peer‑reviewed studies across BMJ, JAMA Network Open, and Nature Medicine reveal that popular AI chatbots—including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Meta AI—frequently generate inaccurate, hallucinated, or overconfident medical advice. The BMJ audit found nearly half of responses were highly problematic, while...
MyChart Unpacked
The author performed a static inspection of Epic’s MyChart Android application package, uncovering roughly 250 custom deep‑link URLs that route users directly to specific screens. By decompiling the APK, the analysis reveals a richer feature set than the typical web‑based...
AI Restores Voice by Reading Neck Muscle Movements
Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology have created an AI‑driven neck sensor that reads microscopic muscle and skin movements to convert silent speech into audible voice. The device combines a miniature camera with silicone markers in a multiaxial...
Philippe Pouletty, Carvolix
Physician‑entrepreneur Philippe Pouletty, founder of Carvolix, is launching AI‑driven tools for cardiology, including a decision‑support system and a robot that places transcatheter heart valves. The company also plans a robotic device to remove brain clots. Pouletty previously founded Abivax, a...
Top 10 Fastest-Growing Healthcare Companies in 2026, From Financial Times’ List
The Financial Times’ 2026 Americas Fastest‑Growing Companies list spotlights ten U.S. healthcare firms that are scaling rapidly amid a broader surge in health‑service deals and AI‑driven consumer behavior. PwC expects deal volume to climb as buyers chase technology‑enabled businesses, while...
Self-Healing Sensor Feels Touch, Detects Pain, and Repairs Itself Underwater
Researchers unveiled a soft magnetoelectric sensor (SMES) that feels touch, detects its own damage, and autonomously heals underwater without external power. The device uses a fluoropolymer‑ionic‑liquid elastomer and liquid‑metal (EGaIn) conductors, achieving 92% elastic recovery and near‑100% healing after ten...
NHS Patients Denied Robot-Assisted Surgery Based on Postcode, Study Reveals
A new study using Freedom of Information requests shows NHS patients in England face a postcode lottery for robot‑assisted surgery. London’s NHS trusts operate 28 surgical robots while the South West has only six, reflecting wildly different local funding approaches....
Patient Safety Commissioner to Hold “Ask Me Anything” Session on AI in Healthcare
The UK Patient Safety Commissioner, Professor Henrietta Hughes, announced an online “Ask me anything” session on May 20 to gather patient perspectives on AI in healthcare. The forum will feature Professor Alastair Denniston, chair of the National Commission into AI...
Brainjo Secures €2m in Seed Funding for VR Mental Health Tech
German startup brainjo announced a €2 million (≈$2.2 million) seed round to develop its first virtual‑reality Digital Health Application (DiGA). The VR‑based tool is designed as a prescribable adjunct for children with ADHD, allowing at‑home use alongside traditional psychotherapy. Funding was led...
As UK Regulators Tighten the Rules on Mental Health Apps, the Next Test Is Post-Treatment Monitoring
The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has introduced robust guidance that forces mental‑health apps to meet minimum safety standards, display a CE or UKCA mark and be listed on an official register. The new rules also give...
Peter Stetson, Tiger Connect
Tiger Connect, now branding itself as an AI platform for clinical communication, aims to orchestrate messages between doctors, nurses, EMTs and connected devices. CMIO Peter Stetson, formerly of Memorial Sloan Kettering, says the core challenge is routing alerts to the right person...
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Foundation Model for Surgical Robotics
NVIDIA unveiled the Isaac GR00T foundation model at GTC 2026, targeting adaptive, autonomous robotics in surgical and industrial settings. The model leverages large‑scale synthetic simulations and multimodal inputs—vision, motion, and force—to train robots on complex physical tasks. Early adopters such...
How Artificial Intelligence Scales Physician Extension
Dr. Tod Stillson argues that the traditional physician‑extension model—relying on nurses, NPs, and PAs—can no longer meet the growing demand for primary care, especially in rural areas. He proposes a physician‑governed artificial‑intelligence platform that codifies clinical reasoning, protocols, and escalation...
Surgical Robotics Beyond NVIDIA GTC
NVIDIA unveiled Open‑H, the largest open surgical‑robotics dataset with over 26,500 task demonstrations and nearly 5 million video‑motion frame pairs collected from nine robot platforms across more than ten institutions. Coupled with the Cosmos‑H world model, the company can generate photorealistic,...
The Hidden Risks of AI Documentation Tools in Clinical Practice
AI-powered ambient scribe tools are entering exam rooms, generating draft clinical notes while physicians see patients. Proponents cite reduced documentation burden and more patient‑focused time, but the technology can hallucinate details—adding false diagnoses or statements that never occurred. Because physicians...
GPT-Rosalind Lands: What OpenAI’s First Domain-Specific Life Sciences Model, the Codex Life Sciences Plugin & the Trusted Access Program Actually...
OpenAI unveiled GPT‑Rosalind on April 16, its first domain‑specific model built for life‑sciences tasks such as biochemistry, genomics, and protein engineering. Access is limited to a Trusted‑Access program that currently includes Amgen, Moderna, Thermo Fisher Scientific, the Allen Institute and...
SAGA Diagnostics to Present New Pathlight™ MRD Data for Ovarian and Metastatic Breast Cancer at AACR 2026
SAGA Diagnostics will present two abstracts at AACR 2026 showcasing its Pathlight™ structural‑variant‑based circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assay. In metastatic breast cancer, the test achieved a 77% detection rate, with ultrasensitive reads predicting therapeutic response and preceding radiologic progression. In...
Humid Air Makes This 3D-Printed Nanogenerator Work Better, Not Worse
Researchers have created a 3D‑printable hygroscopic polymer that captures water molecules, turning high humidity into a performance boost for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). The amide‑based resin, enhanced with 5 wt % sulfobetaine methacrylate, delivers 45.6 µA, 802 V and a peak power density of 48.4 W m⁻²...
Medline to Implement Symbotic AI Robots in Healthcare Initiative
Medline Industries announced a strategic agreement to deploy Symbotic’s AI‑enabled robotics across its distribution network, becoming the first healthcare supplier to adopt the technology. The autonomous system will manage inbound and outbound pallets, storage, and order assembly, targeting faster, more...
New HPV Test Kit for At-Home Use Secures FDA Clearance
The FDA has cleared Waters Corporation’s Onclarity HPV Self-Collection Kit, allowing individuals to collect a vaginal sample at home and send it to a lab for analysis with the BD Onclarity HPV Assay. The kit detects high‑risk HPV strains and...
Top 10 Most Innovative Medical Device Companies in 2026, Per Fast Company
Fast Company’s 2026 list spotlights ten medical‑device innovators reshaping a market that reached $584 billion in 2025. The companies span connected wearables, AI‑driven diagnostics, focused‑ultrasound therapy and minimally invasive tools, reflecting a broader industry shift toward at‑home and less invasive care....
AssureCare CEO on the AI-Powered Platform Unifying Patient Engagement Across Healthcare
AssureCare has launched Aktivate, an AI‑powered patient engagement platform that unifies data, communication channels, and decision‑making across providers, payors, pharmacies, and care teams. The platform orchestrates outreach, using real‑time insights to deliver the right message at the right time and...
Article Intro - White Paper on Surgical Robot Certification
TÜV SÜD has released a detailed white paper on global market entry for surgical robotics, highlighting how the EU Medical Device Regulation now governs these systems and how the forthcoming AI Act will add another compliance layer. The paper outlines...
‘Bad-Vaxx’ Game Aims to ‘Inoculate’ Kids Against Vaccine ‘Misinformation’
The "Bad Vaxx" video game, launched last year, uses inoculation theory to teach children to resist vaccine misinformation. Researchers published in Scientific Reports claim the game improves players' ability to spot manipulation and reduces sharing of false content. Funding comes...