Issue №178 · Tuesday, November 10, 2026
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PharmacyBonus Features – November 8, 2026 – 48% of Americans have used AI to review their health insurance options, 68
Physician AssistantStudent Loan Limits for PAs, Other Health Workers Steering Many to Private Lenders
NursingMissing the Point: Isolation Alone Will Not Build AI Safety
Digital HealthNetwork Bio partners with Duke University on AI disease models
Health OSHow rural healthcare organizations are turning AI investments into measurable performance improvements
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Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Today's Issue.
6 stories · ~5 min readPhysicians.
Smillin.Physicians

Nov 7 | Physicians
FDA launches investigation of Novartis’ Zolgensma after cancer cases (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Physicians
Sarepta quits enrolling for confirmatory Phase 3 trial of Elevidys (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Physicians
STAT+: New tumor cases show common gene therapy tool can come with risk (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Physicians
What 20 years in hospital medicine taught me about starting a health tech company (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Physicians
Evaluating an AI-Powered Patient Simulator for Communication Skills Training: One-Year Randomized Controlled T (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Physicians
Machine learning links gait patterns to osteoarthritis severity (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Physicians
STAT+: A possible comeback for a failed sickle cell gene therapy (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Physicians
American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification: Hybrid Machine Learning–Large Language M (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Physicians
Miscarriage Risk Prediction for Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Who Achieve Clinical Pregnancy After Fres (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Physicians
Seven new tumor cases reported among patients on Novartis' Zolgensma gene therapy (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Physicians
AI scribes, hidden revenue gaps and money-talk stress: What's bubbling under the surface at your practice? (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Physicians
STAT+: Novartis cites cases of previously unknown tumors possibly tied to its SMA gene therapy (1 min read)
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Nov 4 | Physicians
FDA to review uniQure’s BLA for Huntington’s gene therapy (1 min read)
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Nov 4 | Physicians
Development and Validation of a Mixture-of-Experts–Based Model for Postoperative In-Hospital Mortality Risk As (1 min read)
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Nov 4 | Physicians
Barts Health to deploy AI decision support in breast cancer MDTs (1 min read)
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Nov 4 | Physicians
Real-World Use and Expert-Guided Optimization of a Large Language Model–Based Pediatric Health Assistant: Retr (1 min read)
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Nov 4 | Physicians
Willis Knighton Health Uses Ambient AI from Commure to Reduce Physician Burden (1 min read)
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Nov 4 | Physicians
How Automation and AI are Quietly Rebuilding the Hospital Back Office (1 min read)
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Nov 3 | Physicians
The Digital Twin Paradigm in Head and Neck Cancer: Clinical Opportunities and Challenges (1 min read)
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Nov 3 | Physicians
Most AI health equity guidance is general and U.S.-based, Georgetown review finds (1 min read)
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Nov 2 | Physicians
Investigating Patient Trust and Intention to Act in AI-Supported Clinical Decisions: Cross-Sectional Survey (1 min read)
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Nov 2 | Physicians
Institutional Approval Is Not Public Authorization: Legitimacy as a Governance Requirement for Clinical AI (1 min read)
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Nov 2 | Physicians
AI tools often fail to identify validated BP devices (1 min read)
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Nov 2 | Physicians
11 moves for practices caught in Medicare's AI prior auth pilot (1 min read)
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Nov 2 | Physicians
Mental Health Care Was Never Built for Everyone — AI Won’t Fix That (1 min read)
Dentistry.
Smillin.Dentistry

Nov 3 | Dentistry
FDA Grants Breakthrough Designation to OraLiva Oral Cancer Test (1 min read)
Smillin.Dentistry

Nov 3 | Dentistry
Align Technology Opens 2027 Dental Research Award Program (1 min read)
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Oct 31 | Dentistry
The Patient Access Gap Hiding in Your AI Search Visibility Score (1 min read)
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Oct 30 | Dentistry
LANAP Protocol Adoption Reaches 49% of Active US Periodontists (1 min read)
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Oct 30 | Dentistry
Philips Sonicare introduces AI toothbrush designed to transform daily brushing habits (1 min read)
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Oct 30 | Dentistry
Frights, Fangs, and Healthcare Nightmares in Winning Halloween Haikus (1 min read)
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Oct 29 | Dentistry
Videa Launches Ambient Coaching for Dental Practices (1 min read)
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Oct 29 | Dentistry
Dental Innovations Group Advances AI in Dentistry (1 min read)
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Oct 29 | Dentistry
Amann Girrbach North America and Spear Education Partner to Advance Digital Dentistry (1 min read)
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Oct 27 | Dentistry
Asking AI to recommend dentists isn't going well (1 min read)
Pharmacy.
Smillin.Pharmacy

Nov 8 | Pharmacy
Bonus Features – November 8, 2026 – 48% of Americans have used AI to review their health insurance options, 68 (1 min read)
Smillin.Pharmacy

Nov 6 | Pharmacy
Patient-Friendly Simplifications of Outpatient Reports Using Large Language Models via Few-Shot Prompting: Bli (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Pharmacy
STAT+: Amgen’s Repatha linked to fewer heart attacks (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Pharmacy
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Novartis gene therapy, faster U.K. drug reviews, and more (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Pharmacy
Gene Therapy Under Scrutiny After Nine Tumor Reports (1 min read)
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Nov 4 | Pharmacy
STAT+: The biotech startups skipping AI for drug discovery (1 min read)
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Nov 3 | Pharmacy
Ultragenyx to lay off 20% of employees, scrap a Wilson disease gene therapy (1 min read)
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Nov 3 | Pharmacy
How should the FDA regulate generative AI in medtech? Here are 5 takes (1 min read)
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Nov 3 | Pharmacy
Augusta Health Automates Document Routing With Forward Advantage AI (1 min read)
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Nov 2 | Pharmacy
UK pharmacy research strategy targets AI and digital skills (1 min read)
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Nov 2 | Pharmacy
Your Next Health Assistant May Be an AI Agent: Should You Trust It? (1 min read)
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Nov 2 | Pharmacy
Machine Learning–Based Detection of Prophylactic Indication Mentions for Stress-Related Mucosal Disease in Chi (1 min read)
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Nov 2 | Pharmacy
How Will the Food and Drug Administration Regulate Generative AI–Enabled Medical Devices? (1 min read)
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Nov 1 | Pharmacy
Leading by example: the impact of manager behavior on user confidence with AI in pharmacovigilance (1 min read)
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Oct 31 | Pharmacy
Industry Voices—The other AI divide is already opening in healthcare (1 min read)
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Oct 29 | Pharmacy
Popular AI models get medication doses wrong, some dangerously: Doximity (1 min read)
Physician Assistant.
Smillin.Physician Assistant

Nov 8 | Physician Assistant
Student Loan Limits for PAs, Other Health Workers Steering Many to Private Lenders (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Physician Assistant
PAs Win State Legislative Races, Bringing Clinical Experience to Public Office (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Physician Assistant
Arkansas PAs Recognized Under Medicaid as Rendering and Billing Providers, PCPs (1 min read)
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Nov 2 | Physician Assistant
Arkansas Medicaid to Recognize PAs as Rendering and Billing Providers, PCPs (1 min read)
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Oct 30 | Physician Assistant
PAs and severe asthma: Overcoming practice barriers and utilizing emerging therapies to improve patient outcom (1 min read)
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Oct 29 | Physician Assistant
PA Perspectives on Non-Opioid Pain Management (1 min read)
Nursing.
Smillin.Nursing

Nov 8 | Nursing
Missing the Point: Isolation Alone Will Not Build AI Safety (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Nursing
Nurses’ Attitudes and Experiences With Generative AI in Clinical Practice: Qualitative Systematic Review (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Nursing
Nursing students are using AI faster than schools can govern it: Survey (1 min read)
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Nov 4 | Nursing
Creative Solutions in Healthcare Wins Implementation of the Year at Inaugural exacare ai Awards (1 min read)
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Nov 4 | Nursing
Leveraging AI to Integrate and Personalize Hospital Discharge Preparation: A Discursive Paper (1 min read)
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Nov 3 | Nursing
KFSH Highlights AI’s Role in Patient Experience and Nursing at Economist AI in Health Summit (1 min read)
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Oct 31 | Nursing
Nurses shaping AI (1 min read)
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Oct 31 | Nursing
American Nurses Association Enterprise News, November 2026 (1 min read)
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Oct 29 | Nursing
AI-Enabled Patient Profiling for Personalized Nursing Care and Health Support: Scoping Review (1 min read)
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Oct 29 | Nursing
Nursing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Algorithmic Time Machine: Safeguarding Techno‐Temporal Justice for P (1 min read)
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Oct 29 | Nursing
Reading the alert (1 min read)
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Oct 28 | Nursing
Can ambient AI end ‘pajama time?’ (1 min read)
Digital Health.
Smillin.Digital Health

Nov 9 | Digital Health
Network Bio partners with Duke University on AI disease models (1 min read)
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Nov 8 | Digital Health
Fangzhou Receives Outstanding Brand Accolade at the 14th Capital Power Annual Awards for AI Chronic Care Innov (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Digital Health
The Big Challenge for AI in Healthcare Comes After Approval (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Digital Health
Charities call for safeguards for AI-generated health information (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Digital Health
Debunked Episode 31: CVS Health Restructure, AI ROI Report Findings, FTC Warning Letters (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Digital Health
Correction: A Machine Learning–Based Model to Predict Overactive Bladder Risk Among US Women: Evidence From th (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
SFC Capital backs Nayara's AI platform for patient care (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
How Rhapsody Is Advancing Healthcare AI Governance and Patient Identity Management (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
Health secretary says AI could ‘reduce certain areas’ of NHS staffing (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
Expert Perspectives on Transparency and Trust in AI-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems for Chest X-Ray Di (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
Why Healthcare Can’t Skip Steps on the Way to Conversational AI (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
Ellipsis Health buys Kouper Health to act on AI voice calls (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
Workforce Perceptions of a Conceptual Hospital-at-Home Digital Twin: Qualitative Study (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
What the midterms could mean for the future of health AI (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
Consumer AI Is Healthcare’s New Front Door. Who’s Deciding What Happens There? (1 min read)
Smillin.Digital Health

Nov 5 | Digital Health
The future of health care starts with prevention, not AI (1 min read)
Smillin.Digital Health

Nov 5 | Digital Health
TeleAI Officially Launches Privacy-First AI Camera for Sensitive Public and Healthcare Spaces (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
Americans wary of AI for medical care and insurance claims (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
Health Care Outperforms Broader Market on AI Rotation - Health Care Roundup (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Digital Health
The Dangerous Illusion of the “Two-Week AI Expert”: A Call to Action Against Superficial Medical Education (1 min read)
Smillin.Digital Health

Nov 5 | Digital Health
The AI-Native Clinician Is Already Here. Medical Education and Health Systems Need to Catch Up. (1 min read)
Smillin.Digital Health

Nov 4 | Digital Health
People want human oversight of health care AI as New York weighs data center growth (1 min read)
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Nov 4 | Digital Health
Researchers Receive $4M NIH Grant to Build AI Model To Prevent Kidney Injury (1 min read)
Smillin.Digital Health

Nov 4 | Digital Health
Payer Outsourcing Enters a Reset as AI Rewrites Health Plan Economics, Black Book finds (1 min read)
Smillin.Digital Health

Nov 4 | Digital Health
How Healthcare AI's Early Wins Can Have A Lasting Impact (1 min read)
Health OS.
Smillin.Health OS

Nov 9 | Health OS
How rural healthcare organizations are turning AI investments into measurable performance improvements (1 min read)
Smillin.Health OS

Nov 7 | Health OS
Mayo Clinic Platform launches AI-driven clinical decision support tool (1 min read)
Smillin.Health OS

Nov 6 | Health OS
PulseAI’s arrhythmia analysis model for wearables lands FDA clearance (1 min read)
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Nov 6 | Health OS
Fairview Health Services Partners with hellocare.ai to Expand Enterprise Virtual Care and Bring Connected Care (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Health OS
Claim Clarity and the Need for Clinical Context in Healthcare AI (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Health OS
Wearables, AI and women's heart health (1 min read)
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Nov 5 | Health OS
STAT+: As more doctors consult chatbots, health systems can block them — or buy in (1 min read)
Smillin.Health OS

Nov 5 | Health OS
Mayo Clinic Platform launches AI tool to streamline clinical decision-making (1 min read)
Smillin.Health OS

Nov 5 | Health OS
Low-Grade Proteinuria Linked to Poor Outcomes in IgA Nephropathy (1 min read)
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Nov 3 | Health OS
Athenahealth launches tool to bring patient health records into Anthropic's Claude (1 min read)
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Nov 3 | Health OS
From Transparency to Defensibility: The Standard Mid–Revenue Cycle AI Requires (1 min read)
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Nov 3 | Health OS
AI-enabled Mayo Clinic tool supports individualized patient care decisions (1 min read)
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Nov 3 | Health OS
Best Computer System Validation (CSV) Software in 2026: 7 Tools Ranke (1 min read)
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Nov 3 | Health OS
STAT+: FDA, CMS look to collaborate with states on health AI (1 min read)
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Nov 2 | Health OS
AI vendors, health systems join physicians in liability for clinical AI (1 min read)
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Oct 31 | Health OS
Who’s responsible when clinical AI goes wrong? AMA weighs in (1 min read)
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Oct 30 | Health OS
FDA authorizes marketing of 24 Velo nicotine pouches (1 min read)
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Oct 30 | Health OS
Acceptability of Wearable Digital Devices for Remote Continuous Mobility Monitoring in People With Parkinson D (1 min read)
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Oct 30 | Health OS
NYU Langone brings OpenEvidence’s clinical AI into the EHR systemwide (1 min read)
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Oct 30 | Health OS
Oura, UC San Diego Health collaborate to study GLP-1 outcomes using continuous smart ring data (1 min read)
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Oct 29 | Health OS
Identifying Burnout in Pediatric Clinicians Using Wearable Biometric Data: Development and Feasibility Study (1 min read)
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Oct 29 | Health OS
BMA laments low NHS investment in UK’s Autumn Budget (1 min read)
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