Issue №119 · Saturday, September 12, 2026
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Today's Issue
7 stories · ~8 min read
PhysiciansEncoded secures $275m for Dravet syndrome gene therapy
DentistryOryx Dental Launches New GPO Partner Program
PharmacySTAT+: FDA expands Bayer lung cancer drug approval
Physician AssistantMedicare Coverage for Colorectal Cancer Screenings Expanded to Include All PA-ordered Tests
NursingImprivata CEO: AI Agents Need the Same Scrutiny as an Unvetted Contract Nurse
Digital HealthThe Cognitive Transaction: Toward a Human Factors Research Agenda for AI in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Health OSAnomaly Insights, Inova Health partner on AI-powered RCM
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Saturday, September 12, 2026
Today's Issue.
18 stories · ~5 min readPhysicians.
Sep 10 | Physicians
Encoded secures $275m for Dravet syndrome gene therapy (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Physicians
California man sentenced to 30 years in $270M Medi-Cal scheme; AI-designed proteins outperformed an approved C (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Physicians
Development and Usability Assessment of a Health Education Conversational Agent for Patients With Gastric Canc (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Physicians
The Rise of Shadow AI in Health Care: What It Means for Patient Care (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Physicians
STAT+: What to expect from UniQure’s upcoming Huntington’s gene therapy readout (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Physicians
Oz says ‘AI-based avatars’ can help rural communities. Some leaders disagree (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Physicians
Comparative Efficacy of Different AI Systems for Polyp Detection by Size During Colonoscopy: Systematic Review (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Physicians
The AI purchase your practice cannot evaluate (and what to check) (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Physicians
AI mental health support raises questions about benefits, risks (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Physicians
STAT+: ARPA-H to invest $62 million to develop FDA-authorized AI to help treat heart failure (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Physicians
Health care IT is drowning — and AI just made it worse (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Physicians
NHS hospitals launch large-scale surgical AI evaluation (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Physicians
Proximie launches largest ever surgical AI evaluation with AWS, Deloitte, and the NHS (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Physicians
#ERS26: Beam says AATD base editing data hold up after one year (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Physicians
Intuitive introduces new enhancements for da Vinci 5 surgical system (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Physicians
Closing the Solidarity Gap Requires Closing the Accountability Gap for Patient-Facing AI (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Physicians
Automated Extraction of Postoperative Cancer Recurrence and Metastasis From Computed Tomography (CT) Reports: (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Physicians
Stratipath and Aiforia partner to expand access to AI-driven precision diagnostics in oncology (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Physicians
Nationwide Epinephrine Recall; FBI's Fauci Probe; Bruce Campbell's Cancer (1 min read)
Sep 7 | Physicians
AI imaging platform to study disease cell by cell in Scotland (1 min read)
Sep 7 | Physicians
Healthcare leader urges aspiring radiologists to focus on interventional side, for fear of AI (1 min read)
Sep 5 | Physicians
Enovis inks eCential takeover to develop surgical ortho robots (1 min read)
Sep 4 | Physicians
Diagnostic Performance of Machine Learning for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Systematic Review and Meta-Analys (1 min read)
Sep 4 | Physicians
Vara receives CE mark for first autonomous breast cancer screening (1 min read)
Sep 4 | Physicians
AI scribes fail to note patient experiences, U.K. review finds (1 min read)
Dentistry.
Sep 10 | Dentistry
Oryx Dental Launches New GPO Partner Program (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Dentistry
Trust AI Brings VELMENI Dental AI Into Isaac PracticeOS (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Dentistry
The One Seat in Your Practice Nobody Is Building AI For (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Dentistry
Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Dentistry
Four ways to unlock clinical efficiency in the modern dental practice (1 min read)
Sep 7 | Dentistry
Philips Sonicare introduces AI toothbrush designed to transform daily brushing habits (1 min read)
Sep 4 | Dentistry
Power of AI Is Harnessed to Improve Access to Oral Healthcare (1 min read)
Sep 4 | Dentistry
Clear aligner orthodontics: emerging legal risks in the changing digital landscape (1 min read)
Sep 3 | Dentistry
Curve Dental Launches New Dental Membership Platform (1 min read)
Sep 3 | Dentistry
Gargle Expands Dental SEO With AEO and GEO (1 min read)
Sep 2 | Dentistry
Trust AI Launches New Dental RCM Hub (1 min read)
Sep 1 | Dentistry
Geistlich webinar to explore AI and precision approaches in implant dentistry (1 min read)
Aug 31 | Dentistry
Dental Business (1 min read)
Pharmacy.
Sep 10 | Pharmacy
STAT+: FDA expands Bayer lung cancer drug approval (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Pharmacy
Global Research Trends and Insights on AI Usage in Tuberculosis: Bibliometric Analysis (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Pharmacy
Natural Language Processing Identification of Nonprescribed Fentanyl Use in Electronic Health Records: Algorit (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Pharmacy
AI-designed drug could slow aging; chatbots abandon referral advice when patients push back; virtual reality h (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Pharmacy
Forus secures $150M series C to grow AI-powered medication access platform (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Pharmacy
LSTM opens $23m robotic AI lab for infection research (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Pharmacy
Patients Want to Know When Their Doctors Use AI. Should Practices Tell Them Everything? (1 min read)
Sep 7 | Pharmacy
From Question to Action: Rethinking Pharma Engagement in the AI Era (1 min read)
Sep 4 | Pharmacy
Large Language Models for Heterogeneous Data Mining in Liver Disease: Framework Development and Retrospective (1 min read)
Sep 4 | Pharmacy
Blood Cancer's First New Drug in 29 Years; AI for Mammography? Phase III Myeloma Win (1 min read)
Sep 4 | Pharmacy
Digital Health Investment Opportunities: Where Technology Is Really Changing Care in Ireland (1 min read)
Sep 3 | Pharmacy
STAT+: Seattle scientists launch $95 million AI biology effort (1 min read)
Sep 3 | Pharmacy
Exclusive: AI, genomics could fuel biotech ETF re-rating as health care trades at discount, says expert (1 min read)
Sep 2 | Pharmacy
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Huntington’s gene therapy, Novo’s challenges, and more (1 min read)
Sep 2 | Pharmacy
Patients flag AI scribe errors in drugs and diagnoses (1 min read)
Sep 1 | Pharmacy
2026 PharmSci 360 adds tracks on research credibility and post-animal drug development (1 min read)
Sep 1 | Pharmacy
Pharma Doesn't Have an AI Problem. It Has an Information Problem. (1 min read)
Sep 1 | Pharmacy
FDA Adds Boxed Warning to Labeling for Ferric Carboxymaltose Injection (Injectafer) to Describe Risk of Low Ph (1 min read)
Physician Assistant.
Sep 10 | Physician Assistant
Medicare Coverage for Colorectal Cancer Screenings Expanded to Include All PA-ordered Tests (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Physician Assistant
Resources for Screening, Staging, and Treating Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome (1 min read)
Sep 4 | Physician Assistant
Why Physician Assistant Burnout Remains Difficult to Solve (1 min read)
Jun 16 | Physician Assistant
IQVIA taps AI to put overlooked prescribers on marketers’ maps (1 min read)
Nursing.
Sep 10 | Nursing
Imprivata CEO: AI Agents Need the Same Scrutiny as an Unvetted Contract Nurse (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Nursing
How Lifepoint Health Is Using AI to Give Nurses Their Time Back (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Nursing
Artificial Intelligence as a Structural Mediator of Person‐Centred Nursing Care: A Theoretical‐Reflective Anal (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Nursing
Nurses must take lead on governing the AI that's changing their workflows (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Nursing
Kaiser nurses push back on AI monitoring of call times: Report (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Nursing
Roundup: Using AI to better integrate virtual modalities into care delivery (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Nursing
Saving Knowledge Before It Retires: The Case For Ambient AI As Clinical Wisdom Infrastructure (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Nursing
After success with physicians, Mount Sinai Medical Center expands ambient AI to nurses (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Nursing
Measuring AI's value for nurses, beyond faster charting (1 min read)
Sep 2 | Nursing
Artificial intelligence (1 min read)
Sep 2 | Nursing
Could AI Replace Hospital Nurses? A New York Hospital Laid Off 12 Nurses, and Their Union Says AI Played a Rol (1 min read)
Sep 1 | Nursing
AI is creating new value in healthcare. Nursing should help govern it. (1 min read)
Sep 1 | Nursing
Swift Workforce AI Inc. Appoints Jill Case-Wirth, MHA, BSN, RN, FAAN, as Senior Clinical Advisor (1 min read)
Sep 1 | Nursing
AI at the bedside (1 min read)
Aug 31 | Nursing
AI is moving into TriHealth hospital rooms; how the technology is changing patient care (1 min read)
Aug 31 | Nursing
Rural Health Matters: $5 Million Grant Aims to Train Rural Nurses in AI Technology (1 min read)
Aug 31 | Nursing
The unexpected impact of ambient AI for nursing at FMOL Health (1 min read)
Digital Health.
Sep 10 | Digital Health
The Cognitive Transaction: Toward a Human Factors Research Agenda for AI in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Digital Health
The blueprint for clinical AI (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Digital Health
How Samsung and Lark Health are bringing chronic care to seniors' smartphones (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Digital Health
nPhase launches AI clinical data management platform to soup up sponsor trial design (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Digital Health
Healthcare AI’s next test is integration (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Digital Health
Speed, safety and trust: The blueprint for regulating AI in healthcare (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Digital Health
National blueprint published for the regulation of AI in healthcare (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Digital Health
Healthcare Executives Weigh In: AI Readiness and the Growing Risk of Cybersecurity Threats (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Digital Health
NHS doctor-led commission issues blueprint for AI’s safe adoption in healthcare (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Digital Health
Trump officials say AI will help save rural health care. Some leaders in the field don’t believe it (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Digital Health
LataMed AI Enters Healthcare Technology Cooperation Agreement With Venezuelan Science and Health Ministries fo (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Digital Health
Building the Data Foundation for AI-Driven Clinical Development (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Digital Health
STAT+: Orexin discoverers awarded prestigious Lasker award (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Digital Health
Usability and Workflow Integration of a Machine Learning–Derived Neonatal Risk Predictor in Kenyan Neonatal Un (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Digital Health
ARPA-H picks UpDoc, Tempus and Atman to build AI tools for heart disease (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Digital Health
Why it’s hard to prove the benefits of AI deployed at scale (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Digital Health
Four Things Healthcare Teams Get Wrong When Signing an AI Vendor BAA (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Digital Health
Can AI fix health care? In the chaos of emergency rooms, the technology comes up short. (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Digital Health
STAT+: Can AI fix the emergency room? (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Digital Health
AI in healthcare: India’s next use cases include ICU, remote care (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Digital Health
The Promise of Ambient AI Technology in Medical Education: Opportunities and Guardrails (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Digital Health
Sentence-Level Provenance for AI Medical Record Summarization in a Click-to-Inspect Interface: Formative Usabi (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Digital Health
Medical Care Technologies Highlights Multi-Platform AI Strategy Across Health, Enterprise and Consumer Markets (1 min read)
Sep 7 | Digital Health
CIO Podcast – Episode 121: AI Tools and Behavioral Health with Patrick Williamson (1 min read)
Sep 7 | Digital Health
AI in healthcare: How local hospitals and national programs are using the technology (1 min read)
Health OS.
Sep 11 | Health OS
Anomaly Insights, Inova Health partner on AI-powered RCM (1 min read)
Sep 11 | Health OS
XCath secures FDA breakthrough designation for remote thrombectomy robot (1 min read)
Sep 11 | Health OS
At CTA event, federal health officials outline AI ambitions as clinicians debate risks (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Health OS
Former Epic AI leader joins PartsSource as company expands investment in AI (1 min read)
Sep 10 | Health OS
Health Catalyst appoints new CEO (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Health OS
Parakeet Health lands major AI partnership with national dermatology group Qualderm (1 min read)
Sep 9 | Health OS
STAT+: Can AI fix health care? In the chaos of emergency rooms, the technology comes up short (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Health OS
From fragmented healthcare data to intelligent action in the age of AI (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Health OS
GenHealth.ai secures $16.5M in series A for back-office AI agents (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Health OS
Designing a Gamified mHealth App for HIV Prevention and Comorbidities Among Malaysian Young Men Who Have Sex W (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Health OS
Medical Care Technologies Inc. (OTCID:MDCE) Shows Investors a Multi-Platform Company: AI Health, Enterprise Vi (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Health OS
STAT+: Oura files to goes public, reported $1.2B in earnings (1 min read)
Sep 8 | Health OS
Parkinson's Risk and Carbon Monoxide: What a New Study Found (1 min read)
Sep 7 | Health OS
Powerful Medical’s AI heart attack detection model secures FDA approval (1 min read)
Sep 4 | Health OS
Weekly Rundown: LeanTaaS acquires care transition platform Aidin; Hims expands to Australia (1 min read)
Sep 4 | Health OS
OpenEvidence deepens oncology push to build specialized AI agents, launches new AI model family (1 min read)
Sep 3 | Health OS
STAT+: OpenEvidence launches new family of AI models (1 min read)
Sep 3 | Health OS
Even with careful investment, AI is set to boost IT costs (1 min read)
Sep 3 | Health OS
STAT+: FDA pilot offers generative AI medical devices a path to patients before they are authorized (1 min read)
Sep 2 | Health OS
Vara nets first CE mark for autonomous AI breast cancer screening tool (1 min read)
Sep 2 | Health OS
Nourish embeds generative AI assistant into patient app for 24/7 support (1 min read)
Sep 2 | Health OS
Inside Huawei’s next health play: turning wearables into medical research (1 min read)
Sep 2 | Health OS
Flosonics awarded $70m BARDA contract for wearable’s advance into trauma care (1 min read)
Sep 1 | Health OS
How Vitestro’s first-of-its-kind Aletta robot autonomously draws blood (1 min read)
Sep 1 | Health OS
Water fluoridation continues to be safe at recommended levels (1 min read)
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