Clark University Students Produce Video Games that Reduce Social Isolation for People with Schizophrenia and Psychosis
Clark University’s Becker School of Design & Technology partnered with the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance to develop multiplayer video games that address social isolation for people living with schizophrenia and psychosis. Eighty students formed ten‑person teams, created prototypes, and tested concepts with input from S&PAA faculty and clinicians. The collaboration is the school’s first direct engagement with the nonprofit and builds on prior international game‑for‑purpose projects. A fall discussion session and an annual games‑with‑purpose conference will explore scaling these digital tools.
Eight Sleep's New Pregnancy Mode Adjusts Your Bed Temperature So You Don't Have To
Eight Sleep has introduced Pregnancy Mode, an AI‑driven feature that automatically tweaks the Pod smart mattress temperature to match the shifting thermal needs of pregnant and postpartum users. The system leverages each user’s pre‑pregnancy baseline, menstrual data and due date...
Do We Really Need Smarter AI to Cure Cancer?
The debate over AI’s role in curing cancer intensifies as Emilia Javorsky argues that over‑investment in AGI/ASI distracts from practical AI tools and data infrastructure needed for personalized oncology. She stresses cancer’s heterogeneity, urging focus on early detection, trial acceleration,...
New Guideline for Cardiac Ultrasound Artifacts Released by ASE
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) has issued a new guideline titled “Recommendations for the Identification and Mitigation of Cardiac Ultrasound Artifacts.” The document provides a systematic approach to recognizing artifacts across 2‑D, Doppler, color and 3‑D echocardiography, complete with...
Exclusive: XCaliber Health Scores $6.5M for Workflow Platform
XCaliber Health announced a $6.5 million seed round to scale its agentic AI platform that automates healthcare administrative tasks. The system ships with pre‑built agents, analytics models and integrates with major EHRs such as Epic, Cerner and athenahealth. CEO Prakash Khot...
AMA Presses Congress for Guardrails on AI Mental Health Chatbots
The American Medical Association (AMA) has written to congressional AI and digital‑health caucuses urging stronger federal safeguards for artificial‑intelligence‑driven mental‑health chatbots. The AMA warns that the rapid deployment of these tools is outpacing existing patient‑protection frameworks, creating risks of misdiagnosis,...
AMA Presses Congress for Guardrails on AI Mental Health Chatbots
The American Medical Association is urging Congress to enact stronger safeguards for AI‑enabled mental‑health chatbots, warning that current oversight lags behind rapid adoption. The AMA highlights risks such as misinformation, emotional dependency, privacy breaches, and harmful responses in crisis situations....
3 Reasons Analysts Love DexCom
DexCom reported a strong Q1 2026, with sales climbing to $1.2 billion, a 15% year‑over‑year increase, and earnings beating forecasts by 9 cents per share. The company’s cash pile sits at roughly $2.4 billion, while its new G7 15‑Day continuous glucose monitor is gaining...
South West Yorkshire Partnership Updates and Next Steps for Electronic Prescribing
South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust reported that its electronic medication chart (EPMA) has gone live at Cheswold Park Hospital, replacing paper charts and boosting patient safety. The trust outlined a 12‑month, three‑phase plan to roll out the...
Australian Digital Health Agency Notes Progress in Delivery of National Healthcare Interoperability Plan
The Australian Digital Health Agency announced that 75% of the 44 actions in its National Healthcare Interoperability Plan have been completed as of the January‑March 2026 quarter. Two domains—innovation and benefits—are fully finished, while standards are 93% complete, leaving only...
Nottinghamshire Healthcare Procures £725k Patient-Focused Intranet and Internet Solution
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a £725,000 (~$925,000) contract to Made Purple Limited to deliver a patient‑focused intranet and internet service aimed at reducing digital deprivation. The platform will enable patients to acquire new skills, research health information,...
Fluorinated Amphiphilic Dendrimer to Improve PET Imaging of Cancer
Researchers engineered a fluorinated amphiphilic dendrimer nanocarrier radiolabeled with gallium‑68 to serve as a PET imaging agent. Fluorination lowered liver retention, accelerated renal clearance, and refined biodistribution, producing markedly higher tumor uptake in mouse models of glioblastoma and pancreatic adenocarcinoma....
Tell Us: Is Hospital Connectivity Keeping up with the Demands of Modern Care in 2026?
Hospitals are shifting focus from merely providing Wi‑Fi access to guaranteeing continuous, high‑performance connectivity essential for modern care. Existing networks, often a mix of Wi‑Fi and legacy distributed antenna systems, struggle with device density, real‑time diagnostics, and emerging AI workloads....
Croma Bets on Health-Tech Push, Brings in Smart Rings, Partners Oura
India’s leading electronics retailer Croma, part of the Tata Group, announced a strategic push into health‑tech, adding smart rings to its portfolio and formalising a partnership with Finnish wellness brand Oura. The retailer aims to offer advanced wearables that provide...
Oxford Builds and Tests Structured Human Brain Tissue Using 3D Printing
Oxford University researchers have engineered layered human cortical tissue using stem cells, 3D printing and micro‑fluidics, then successfully implanted it into living mouse brains. The grafted tissue integrated with host neurons, formed functional synapses and reduced lesion size in traumatic‑brain‑injury...
Philips Bets on AI Monitoring to Cut Hospital Costs, Ease Staff Shortages
Philips introduced an AI‑driven patient‑monitoring platform at its APAC Innovation Summit in Singapore, aiming to alleviate staff shortages and curb rising hospital costs. The solution aggregates data from multiple care settings into a single interface, enabling clinicians to monitor vitals...
Trustworthy Healthcare AI Requires Local Accountability, Not only Consensus Principles
Recent commentary on the FUTURE‑AI consensus highlights that while the guideline enumerates essential tasks—local validation, logging, audit, training, governance, and monitoring—it stops short of assigning concrete operational duties. The author argues that trustworthy healthcare AI depends on explicit, locally enforced...
Curium Life: AI Platform for Surgical Intelligence
Curium Life Technologies, founded by pediatric surgeon Dr. Vinayak Rengan, launched SurgiMeasure, an AI‑driven intra‑operative measurement SaaS for laparoscopic surgeries. The hardware‑agnostic tool provides real‑time metrics during procedures such as bariatric and bowel cancer surgery, aiming to augment surgeon decision‑making....
NIHR Funding for Kidney Care App Study at Portsmouth NHS Trust
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust has received almost £100,000 (≈ $128,000) from the NIHR to evaluate the MyRenalCare app’s ability to make kidney care more inclusive. The INCLUDE‑CKD study will compare about 1,000 app users with a similar number receiving standard...
Telehealth Autism Tools Provide High Accuracy for Children Using Short Phrases
UC Riverside researchers created telehealth assessment tools for autistic children who use short phrases or fluent speech and compared them with traditional in‑person evaluations. In a trial of 39 children, the short‑phrase tool matched the accuracy of face‑to‑face diagnosis, while...
CDC HoSt-TT Certification for Siemens Healthineers Total Testosterone Test Expands Patient Access to Gold Standard Equivalent Results
Siemens Healthineers’ Atellica IM Testosterone II (TSTII) assay has received CDC Hormone Standardization Program certification for total testosterone (HoSt‑TT), confirming its results match the gold‑standard LC‑MS/MS method. The assay, available on Atellica IM and CI analyzers, is the only fully automated immunoassay to...
Mastering a Marathon with the Future of Healthtech
Computer Weekly explores how digital twins of the human body are being used to fine‑tune training for the London Marathon, giving runners real‑time physiological feedback. The issue also examines AI‑driven cockpit experiences shaping the next generation of cars, and interviews...
AI Model Helps Discern Patients' Need for Supplemental Breast Imaging
A deep‑learning model called Mirai, developed by MIT and Mass General, predicts a woman’s five‑year breast‑cancer risk from routine mammograms with an AUROC of 0.71, markedly higher than the 0.53 achieved by traditional density‑based BI‑RADS categories. The study evaluated over...
People Share Incomplete Details with AI in Symptom Reports
A new Nature Health study of 500 participants shows that people give less detailed symptom reports to AI chat‑bots than to human doctors. Reports to AI averaged 228.7 characters versus 255.6 characters for physicians, a drop of roughly 11 %. The...
Ushering in the Next Era of Frontline Nursing with AI
McKinsey’s 2026 Nursing AI Insights Survey of 521 frontline nurses shows that 65% have increased their use of AI tools over the past year, yet only about 2% say AI is embedded in every aspect of their work. Adoption is...
AI in Cancer Research Waits for Its Funding Moment
General‑purpose AI attracted $33.9 billion in 2024, while the AI‑in‑cancer market was valued at $2.45 billion, just 7 % of that total. Researchers at the University of Hong Kong unveiled MorphoGenie, an unsupervised deep‑learning tool that extracts subtle patterns from cell images, following...
Wearable Technology Impacts Hospice Staff Safety, Satisfaction
Wearable safety devices are gaining traction among home‑based hospice staff, who confront heightened physical and psychosocial risks. Silent Beacon, founded in 2016, offers a wearable with a panic button, location tracking, and instant communication to streamline emergency response. Research cited...
SimonMed Deploys AIRS Medical to Power AI-Enhanced MRI Across National Network
SimonMed, a leading independent outpatient imaging provider, announced the enterprise‑wide deployment of AIRS Medical’s FDA‑cleared SwiftMR AI solution across its national MRI network. The AI platform promises sharper images, up to 30% faster scan times, and consistent performance on multi‑vendor...
Olympus, EndoRobotics Forge Distribution Pact
Olympus announced an exclusive global distribution agreement with South Korea‑based EndoRobotics to sell its endoscopic robotic devices, starting in the United States and expanding the company’s EndoTherapy portfolio. The deal covers the Robopera console, articulated grippers, a scope‑mounted traction device,...
Accelerating Precision Medicine with Rapid Front-Line NGS-April 30, 2026
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has deployed Pillar Biosciences' oncoReveal® Nexus 21‑gene panel as a rapid front‑line next‑generation sequencing (NGS) test, dramatically shortening turnaround time versus its standard MSK‑IMPACT comprehensive profiling. The targeted panel, validated through the MSK‑REACT program,...
HHS Finalizes HIPAA Rule to Standardize Electronic Claims Attachments
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued the first HIPAA standards for electronic claims attachments, mandating the use of X12N 275/277 and HL7 CDA formats. The rule becomes effective on May 26, 2026, with full compliance required...
Why Removing Humans From Care May Undermine Outcomes
The digital‑health hype promises AI‑driven care that cuts costs, expands access and improves outcomes, but Avena Health’s experiment shows the opposite when human clinicians are removed. After fully automating its nutrition platform, active user retention plunged to just two percent...
TRACS Enables Strain-Level Tracking of Microbial Transmission
A new algorithm called TRACS (Transmission Clustering of Strains) can differentiate closely related bacterial strains by analyzing single‑nucleotide polymorphisms. The tool was applied to SARS‑CoV‑2, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Plasmodium falciparum datasets, revealing detailed transmission networks across hospitals, populations and mother‑infant...
3 Medical Info Systems Stocks Riding the GenAI Wave in a Tough Market
The medical information systems sector is riding a wave of generative AI despite a tough market, with AI‑in‑healthcare projected to grow at a 38.6% CAGR through 2030. Remote‑care demand and smart‑health product growth are driving a market that could reach...
Canada’s Fragmented Electronic Health Records Harm Patients and Cost Taxpayers Billions: New Research
A new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal finds that Canada’s electronic health records (EHR) remain fragmented across provinces, driving inefficiencies and unsafe care. The research estimates the lack of interoperability costs taxpayers roughly $7 billion USD annually and...
Hospitals Are Still Relying on Fax Machines and Photocopies — and It’s Co...
U.S. hospitals still rely on fax machines and photocopies despite widespread electronic health records, creating costly delays and duplicated procedures. Administrative staff have ballooned 3,000% since 1975 while clinician numbers rose only 150%, highlighting an inefficient bureaucracy. Past federal initiatives,...
RxUtility Launches Personalized AI Companion Mimi™ to Compare Every Drug Price as Affordability Crisis Grows
RxUtility announced the beta launch of Mimi™, an AI‑driven conversational companion that compares real‑time prices for every prescription across U.S. pharmacies. The free‑to‑use service asks users for medication, dosage, insurance and location to surface the lowest‑cost options, including coupons and...
RxUtility Launches Personalized AI Companion Mimi™ to Compare Every Drug Price as Affordability Crisis Grows
RxUtility introduced Mimi, an AI‑powered conversational companion that compares prescription drug prices across all U.S. pharmacies. The beta version is free and guides users through personalized cost options based on insurance, location, and dosage. Mimi draws on RxUtility’s comprehensive affordability...
A Harvard Study Just Found AI Can Now Out-Diagnose Physicians in the ER: ‘We’re Already at the Ceiling’
Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that OpenAI’s o1‑preview AI model outperformed two attending physicians in emergency‑room diagnosis tests. The study used raw electronic health record entries, avoiding any data cleaning, and blind reviewers favored the...
How One Practice Combines In-Clinic, Telehealth and In-Home Care
Dr. Payam Zamani’s My Dr Now has built a hybrid primary‑care network that blends in‑clinic, telehealth and in‑home visits into a single, patient‑centric platform. The model operates 75 retail‑style clinics across Arizona and Texas, stays open 7 days a week...
Advanced AI Helps 3D Imaging Labs Evolve with the Times
Advanced AI and visualization software are reshaping cardiac 3D imaging labs, slashing processing times from three hours to about 25 minutes for TAVR planning. At Banner Health, a five‑person team now handles roughly 400 exams weekly, a workload that previously...
New Ways to Predict TAVR Outcomes for Individual Heart Patients
Two recent studies offer fresh tools for forecasting outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Researchers in Turkey validated the C‑reactive protein‑albumin‑lymphocyte (CALLY) index, a low‑cost biomarker that blends inflammation, immune activity and nutrition, as an independent predictor of all‑cause...
UChicago Medicine Rolling Out Smart Hospital Platform System-Wide
UChicago Medicine is rolling out Artisight’s smart‑hospital platform across more than 1,800 rooms, marking a system‑wide deployment of computer‑vision, voice and RTLS technology. The first three use cases focus on a Smart OR, virtual nursing workflows, and AI‑driven fall‑risk assessment....
“Thinking” AI Outperforms Human Doctors on Real-Life Data
A new study published in *Science* pits OpenAI’s reasoning model o1‑preview against hundreds of physicians across multiple clinical tasks. The model correctly included the diagnosis in 78.3% of 143 NEJM cases and ranked it first in 52%, outperforming GPT‑4 and...
AI-Powered Healthcare Wearables: The Next Generation of Remote Patient Monitoring
Advances in artificial intelligence and edge computing are turning health wearables into real‑time diagnostic tools. Researchers at Harvard, the University of Arizona and the University of Stirling show that AI can filter raw sensor data, generate actionable insights, and push...
AI, Digital Tools May Increase Rural Clinician Satisfaction
The Rural Health Transformation Program, announced by PointClickCare’s government affairs VP Steve Holt, will fund AI and digital tools for rural hospitals. The initiative aims to streamline clinical workflows, reduce burnout, and improve staff retention in underserved areas. By integrating...
Home Health Tech Company Enzo Health Raises $20M
Enzo Health, an AI‑driven home health platform based in Lehi, Utah, announced a $20 million Series A round led by N47, bringing its total capital to $26 million. The infusion will fund expansion of its unified intake, clinical documentation and quality‑assurance tools into...
Ending Prescription Ping-Pong in Specialty Care: Colin Banas, CMO, DrFirst Shares His Vision
DrFirst’s Timely platform embeds AI‑driven benefits verification, prior‑authorization automation, and pharmacy routing directly into the e‑prescribing workflow, aiming to eliminate the “prescription ping‑pong” that stalls specialty medication access. The solution surfaces real‑time cost and coverage data, enabling clinicians to answer...
Sleep Is the Missing Vital Sign, and Health AI Is Scaling the Consequences
Sleep is increasingly recognized as a missing vital sign that predicts chronic disease, cognitive decline, and burnout, yet it remains measured inconsistently in clinical practice. Wearable devices have democratized sleep tracking, but device-to-device variability and adherence gaps undermine data reliability....
Top 7 Modern AI-Powered EAP Providers for Global Workforces in 2026
Traditional employee assistance programs are used by only 1‑3% of workers, prompting a surge in AI‑powered EAP solutions that promise higher engagement and faster care. Providers such as Spring Health, Kyan Health, Lyra Health, Modern Health, Unmind, Wysa and Yuna...