Multimodal AI Beats Physicians on 29 of 32 Metrics
A multimodal AI (AIME) had superior performance compared with 18 physicians for almost every metric (29 of 32 axes). Randomized, but simulated, not real-world clinical practice. @GoogleDeepMind @alan_karthi @RyutaroTanno https://t.co/PIs9VZmlMi https://t.co/nDC8p2jmus
Unpacking What We Really Know About NHS Online
What do and don't we know about NHS Online, the health service's big bold plan for our health service? My latest @bmj_latest https://t.co/YC0M4ekLy2
AI Chatbots Sometimes Outdiagnose Doctors, Evaluation Still Debated
Some AI chatbots now outperform physicians on certain diagnostic tasks. But researchers still disagree on what those results really mean—and how medical AI should be evaluated. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-clinical-decision-support?share_id=9487059
On‑device Optical Sensors Enable Real‑time Decisions in Surgery, Space
New optical sensors can analyze data within the device itself, enabling real-time decision-making in applications like surgery and space exploration while reducing reliance on external computing. innovation
Lumius Launches Fast, Accessible Universal 3D Body Camera
The future of ultrasound is 3D. Lumius is making it fast, accessible, and intelligent — a universal 3D camera for the body. Congrats on the launch, @treevoo_lumius and @lichenhang1225! https://t.co/7IzDsljqrf https://t.co/7FdahhZ9UK
New Blood‑Draw Tech Revolutionizes Sample Collection
This Blood Draw #Technology Is Transforming the Collection Process by @gigadgets_ #MedTech #HealthTech #TechForGood #Tech https://t.co/bGHGSGPoKL
Chinese Hospital's Blood‑Drawing Robot Hits 94.3% Success
Chinese Hospital Deploys Blood-Drawing #Robot Achieving a 94.3% Success Rate by @Khulood_Almani #Robotics #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML https://t.co/BNH5r1f8Pn
Programmable Drug Targets Cancer Cells via DNA Recognition
FinalDose is building the first programmable drug platform - a single smart drug molecule that finds diseased cells by their DNA and destroys them. They're starting with all cancers. Congrats on the launch, @Jeffliu6068Liu, @sklin_lite, and @liyaohuang2! https://t.co/uKJgl7lpmR https://t.co/l4b1hS2mn7
Big Tech Accelerates Into Healthcare with Partnerships
Big tech companies like Amazon, Google/Alphabet, Apple, NVIDIA and Microsoft are taking their move into healthcare and medicine seriously. They are developing new, health-related features on their platforms. They are also teaming up with research institutions and developers to create new...
E‑Patients Redefine Healthcare’s Future at Budapest Symposium
The Future of Healthcare From an E-patient Perspective - Presentation by Dave deBronkart (USA)! The presentation took place in the first scientific symposium about medical futures studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary on the 10th of April,...
Digital Twins of Human Lungs Personalize Therapy Assessment
Digital twins of ex vivo human lungs enable accurate and personalized evaluation of therapeutic efficacy https://t.co/0FMBqmiMyM https://t.co/3MrdTqK82w
Robotic Mask Auto‑Protects Others When You Forget
This #Robotic Face Mask Protects Others When You Forget to Mask Up by @DigitalTrends #Innovation #EmergingTech #Technology https://t.co/XginmuWio8
Personalized Video Guides Transform Patient Onboarding and Recovery
Framewise Health (@FramewiseHealth) turns medical records, institutional protocols, and drug data into personalized videos that walk patients through onboarding, adherence, and recovery. Congrats on the launch, @tanekimm & @sourdoggy8! https://t.co/3HOtUhE4J3 https://t.co/oirxeviyGl
Early IT Integration Saves Costs in M&A
Bring IT in early—or pay for it later. Sharon Cook of Harmony Health IT on M&A + data strategy. 👇 https://t.co/56FWLqhiT1 @HarmonyHIT #ViVE2026 #HITSM https://t.co/9dxqW0RORu
Fast AI Demos Mask Deep Clinical Production Challenges
AI tools have made it genuinely easy to build things that look finished before they are. That is mostly brilliant, and occasionally a problem. The prototype speed is real. The production complexity is also real. The job, more and more,...
Tech Advances Redefine IVF and Our View of Reproduction
Tech advances not only made IVF safer and more effective; they fundamentally changed the way we think about our reproduction.
FDA Embraces AI: Radiology Leads 1,400 Approvals via 510(k)
The FDA, a global leader in healthcare regulation, is adapting its framework to include AI-based medical devices, with 1400 approvals and clearances to date, indicating an acknowledgment of AI’s expanding role in healthcare. Radiology leads in AI device approvals reflecting deep...
Swallowable Soft Robot Measures Stomach Acidity Without Endoscopy
A swallowable, electronics-free soft robot enables real-time stomach acidity measurement and fluid sampling, offering a less invasive alternative to endoscopy by gliding through the stomach and transmitting data via ultrasound. medicalinnovation
PET‑CT Can Opportunistically Assess Bone Density in Hodgkin Lymphoma
Opportunistic Evaluation of Bone Mineral Density by PET-CT in Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients [Jun 6, 2019] Cohen et al. Endocr Pract https://t.co/jdxVy80vMB #lymsm #supponc #oncorad #BoneHealth
All the Tech, but the Answer: Move More
We’re moving towards a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy moment in health and fitness tech: AI models. Wearables. Continuous glucose. HRV. Lactate. Sleep tracking. Readiness scores. Infinite computation searching for *the answer*. Only for Deep Thought to finally reply... “Move more.”
LinkedIn Job Titles Forecast Healthcare AI’s Next Frontier
We might literally be watching the future of healthcare form in real time through LinkedIn job titles. I keep on finding new job titles there that are related to healthcare AI and emerging care models, including roles such as healthcare navigators...
Remote Nurse Robots Begin Deployment in U.S. Hospitals
Remotely Operated Nurse #Robots Are Entering U.S. Hospitals by @Khulood_Almani #Robotics #MedTech #HealthTech #Tech #Healthcare https://t.co/CKY0kbTmo4
AI's Promise in Biomedicine Hinges on Quality Data
AI is transforming our lives and science, but we need to be realistic about both its promise and its limitations. In biomedicine, one major bottleneck remains data. We need more high-quality data to unlock AI-driven advances. It was a pleasure to speak...
Wireless EMG Bionic Hand Achieves Independent Finger Control
Wireless EMG-Controlled Bionic Hand with Independent Finger Movement by @CyberRobooo #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/U8RucHbsFe
Success in Tech Investing Means Ignoring Consensus Views
to succeed in building and investing in tech the first rule is to ignore the consensus view: @ROSSIntel, people didn’t understand neural nets + deep learning + moore’s law @flexpa, people didn’t understand digital health data + OAuth + interop + AI @maniacvc,...
South Korea Deploys Robots to Ease Nursing Home Shortage
Robots and AI in S Korean nursing homes to address care crisis https://t.co/f7H9nxRmbb via @asianews
Crowdsourced Symptom Tracking Can Spot Outbreaks Early
Save this post. 👈 The next public health signal may not come first from a lab, a hospital, or a press conference. It may come from people quietly feeling sick — before the system sees the pattern. That is why I built SymptomSignal:...
OTC Hearing Aids Offer Affordable, Game‑changing Solution
More hearing aids? Yes, because lots of folks have mild hearing loss, and OTC solutions are affordable and, honestly, game changing. This time I'm looking at the new Techmi FacePro OTC Hearing Aids in this demo and review: https://t.co/W0GUOshnHY #hearing...
Simplify Care, Build Trust for Better Digital Patient Experience
What makes an excellent digital patient experience? Lee Schwamm: move complexity away from patients, make care easier to access & navigate, & build systems that convey trust and empathy. A Health&Veritas conversation. @YNHH @YaleSOM @YaleSPH Listen: https://t.co/brFxQfpm0T
AI's Real-World Impact in Pharma and Medicine
Just out-latest @timmermanreport post: AI in Practice: on the important, difficult work of getting AI to deliver-in pharma, medicine, & beyond. https://t.co/fuwuxubhrb Cited: @Loftus, @oziadias, @DeanKateBaicker, @EricTopol, @patricksmalone, @arjunmanrai, @zakkohane, @WSJBooks
Pennsylvania Sues over Chatbot Therapy Misuse
People use chatbots as therapists. Describe symptoms, ask about medication. We've been doing it for years. Pennsylvania just put it in a lawsuit.
LLMs Fail to Admit Uncertainty in Medical Contexts
Expressing uncertainty is a major weak spot of LLMs in medicine @NEJM "Can AI Say I Don't Know?" Good lines: "Contemporary LLMs have passed many Turing tests, but will they pass this modern test of not knowing? We don’t know." https://t.co/EsJR8gIDHs https://t.co/CXL0fpzP6v
Doctors Needed to Build Scalable AI Multi‑Specialty Care
We need awesome doctors who can help develop AI doctors to make AI scalable for all primary care, chronic disease care, and parts of specialty care we call "multi-specialty primary care"! AI allows for this oxymoron. Make a difference globally
Boosting Physician AI Adoption Through Prescriptive Strategies
Prescribing Change: Improving #AI Adoption Among Physicians by Michel van Harten @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/4U52ChjK9J #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML https://t.co/dMKeiDHEJQ
Stop Wasting Hours Matching Sample IDs Across Assays
1/ How many hours do bioinformaticians lose matching sample IDs across assays? Too many. And it’s avoidable. Let’s talk about why this happens—and how to stop it. https://t.co/wxR6DIMzPv
AI-Driven Method Creates Robust Clinical Trial Surrogate Markers
Super interesting via @oziadias & @DeanKateBaicker on an approach to generating robust surrogate markers, urgently needed but elusive, for clin trials, essentially via channeling the AI-enabled empiric analysis that I associate w PRS (cc @pnatarajanmd) https://t.co/FDP4Ym8ycC
AI Retinal Imaging Enables Low-Cost Multi-Disease Screening
AI framework for multidisease detection via retinal imaging 👉 “Overall, Reti-Pioneer could provide a translatable, low-cost pathway from oculomics to actionable clinical screening.” https://t.co/7Ji4WpSICV https://t.co/ulB18UhaVn
Gene Therapy Restores Six-Year-Old's Sight Like Magic
The mother of a six-year-old girl who had life-changing eye gene therapy says it is "like someone waved a magic wand and restored her sight https://t.co/IU3YRMtJSG
Smart Homes Integrated with Biotech Extend Lifespan
A bigger house is not going to give you significantly longer life. But a much smarter house integrated into the advanced biotechnology research and clinical ecosystem will. Very happy to see our chapter with CY Leung published in Springer Nature...
Agentic AI Redefines the Future of MedTech
From Consultant To Colleague: #AgenticAI As The New Frontier In #Medtech by Ming-Chien Chyu @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/7g7bKuwM5t #Healthcare #HealthTech #Tech #TechForGood https://t.co/foLboogFJF
Privacy‑Preserving Symptom Check‑Ins Accelerate Outbreak Detection
This is the hard part of travel- and event-linked public health events: People disperse before symptoms appear. A cruise, flight, conference, camp, or large gathering may be over — but the signal emerges days later, scattered across states and countries. We need better...
AI-Generated Hospitalization Summaries Cut Clerk Workload, Boost Physician Well‑being
Agentic AI summaries of hospitalizations were safe and reduced data clerk burden, burnout, and improved sense of well-being for physicians in a prospective study https://t.co/0nXZ0wjugg
AI‑enhanced Dog Breath Test Detects Cancers with 90%+ Accuracy
New MCED / cancer screening test: Dogs smell human breathing + Bayesian AI detects multiple cancers with 90.8% sensitivity & 91.3% specificity (AUC 0.962), even in early stages. Phase II India study (1,502 people, 7 cancer types)- strong potential for affordable...
Google Launches AI Health Coach to Interpret Wearable Data
Wearables can measure every vital sign or health parameter that matters in adjusting your lifestyle. But what the user does with the data remains the biggest challenge. Now Google wants to solve that too. After OpenAI and Anthropic came up with...
Autonomous Robot Achieves Zero‑Error Blood Draws
Zero-Error Blood Draws: Fully #Autonomous #Robot Handles Vein Detection to Injection by @Berci #MedTech #Healthcare #HealthTech #Tech #Technology https://t.co/2ZzoRdwtqP
Chatbots Significantly Reduce Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
It's incredible how much of a bias there is to over-report AI issues - eg "AI psychosis." Didn't see many people share this meta-study: "Chatbots produced statistically significant reductions in depressive and anxiety symptoms compared with controls." https://t.co/T3kTxSEa1P
Finger‑prick Blood Test Accurately Detects Active TB, Predicts Risk
A finger-prick blood test measuring immune response can accurately detect active tuberculosis and moderately predict future disease in household contacts, offering potential for more targeted TB screening and prevention. tuberculosis
AI-Powered Virtual Clinic Transforms Cancer Detection and Care
There is a genuinely a revolution under way in cancer. We're solving it: from early detection (!), trial matching, and ongoing management. @Color is now an @ASCO clinic -- the first virtual-only one -- leading this revolution in screening and...
AI Coach Imperfect Personalizes Daily Fitness Using Your Data
Imperfect (@imperfectco_) is an AI fitness coach that's personalized based on your health data. It adapts your training, recovery, and nutrition each day to how your body is actually responding. Congrats on the launch, and welcome back @matin (W11)! https://t.co/5N9sjEQSKG https://t.co/UL5vwXUngk
AI Reads Retina to Diagnose Multiple Metabolic Diseases
In 2014 I predicted we'd diagnose metabolic disease just by looking into your eyes. Nature Medicine just published the proof. Researchers built an AI called Reti-Pioneer. You look into a camera. It scans your retina. No blood draw. No needles. No lab. What it can...