How technological innovation is changing medicine for patients and the people who practice on the front lines.
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Nov 14, 2026 · 4:55
U.S. loses measles elimination status after 26 years, reports say The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop.…
Nov 13, 2026 · 6:59
Federal regulators have barred two of the 17 surprise-billing arbitrators from new disputes, citing their performance. Which standards they missed, and what becomes of their open…
Nov 13, 2026 · 7:14
Patients will accept medical AI on one condition: that a doctor can overrule it. That veto is being sold and stretched faster than anyone is paying to keep it real. Read the…
Nov 13, 2026 · 5:19
American Cancer Society now urges PSA tests every 2 years from age 50 The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the…
Nov 12, 2026 · 6:55
AI health products tend to report how many people they reached and how quickly. The test that matters is whether those patients did better, and buyers should ask before they…
Nov 12, 2026 · 7:02
AMA says AI cannot be licensed as a doctor and vendors should own its errors The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in…
Nov 11, 2026 · 6:47
Much clinical AI is designed for the health systems that pay for it. The doctors who use it should get a vote before it is bought and an off switch for when it slows care. Read…
Nov 11, 2026 · 5:51
FDA adds vision-loss warning to every GLP-1 drug, from Ozempic to Zepbound The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the…
Nov 10, 2026 · 6:39
Medicare has renamed the diagnostic software it pays hospitals for and parked it in temporary payment groups, an interim step. The next step should pay for software that shows…
Nov 10, 2026 · 6:48
Most of next year's Medicare cut to doctors is written into law. Congress should tie the yearly update to what practices pay, and the new same-day cut will move appointments more…
Nov 9, 2026 · 5:18
Stopping statins after 70 meets noninferiority but adds 1 event per 40 patients The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician…
Nov 8, 2026 · 6:39
Stents or bypass for stable heart disease add no survival at 11 years The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the…
Nov 7, 2026 · 5:48
U.S. measles cases pass 5,000, the most since 1991 The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop. Every fact in the…
Nov 6, 2026 · 7:08
In 2022 one emergency department in thirteen lacked an attending physician around the clock. Every rural one should have an emergency physician on video at all hours, paid for by…
Nov 6, 2026 · 6:46
AI was sold to medicine as a way to save time and money. This week's evidence suggests it often spends both, and it should be paid for only when it saves them. Read the letter…
Nov 6, 2026 · 5:49
Smartwatch AI spots more hypertension than an office cuff check The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop.…
Nov 5, 2026 · 7:03
Measles cases this year are more than twice last year's. Texas is investigating the pediatricians who vaccinate children, and the children who depend on those doctors will pay.…
Nov 5, 2026 · 5:12
Medicare cuts physician pay 2.31% for 2027, deeper than it proposed The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop.…
Nov 4, 2026 · 6:57
Theranos is remembered for defrauding investors. For doctors the lesson is what happened to patients. Products that change care still reach them on their makers' word, before the…
Nov 4, 2026 · 5:24
Asthma guideline ranks steroid rescue inhalers above albuterol alone The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop.…
Nov 3, 2026 · 6:57
A weight-loss prescription can now take a questionnaire and a card number. Patients deserve a clinician who knows them and a drug the FDA has checked. Read the special topic and…
Nov 3, 2026 · 5:27
Child's measles death is New York's first in more than 30 years The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop.…
Nov 2, 2026 · 7:06
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has passed 10,000 confirmed cases and reached Kenya and Nigeria. There is no approved vaccine or treatment, and American rules turn on a 21-day…
Nov 2, 2026 · 6:52
More Americans said they would use a therapist three months away than a chatbot available immediately. The wait is the thing to fix, and the handoff to a person is the thing to…
Nov 2, 2026 · 4:29
Flu admissions jump 27% in a week to the highest late-October rate since 2010 The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in…
Nov 1, 2026 · 6:05
Affordable Care Act premiums rise another 13% as sign-ups open The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop. Every…
Oct 31, 2026 · 5:21
AI chatbots recommend care costing 3 times what physicians order The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop.…
Oct 30, 2026 · 7:00
A randomized trial found a glucose sensor lowered blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes who take no insulin. Medicare's rule still turns mainly on the insulin rather than…
Oct 30, 2026 · 7:21
Medicine's answer to every worry about AI is a human who checks the machine's work. Almost nobody checks how well the humans do, and somebody should. Read the letter and its…
Oct 30, 2026 · 5:51
AMA says doctors shouldn't be liable for AI errors they can't detect The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop.…
Oct 29, 2026 · 4:26
Kennedy lets doctors compound six unapproved peptides, including BPC-157 The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the…
Oct 28, 2026 · 7:06
American clinicians asked one AI reference tool 271 million questions in two and a half years. How often such tools get the answer right, on the questions clinicians actually…
Oct 28, 2026 · 5:07
Parents sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT tapered their daughter off a seizure drug The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in…
Oct 27, 2026 · 6:57
A new paper says medical training should teach doctors when to defer to a machine. It has the order backwards, and almost nobody is counting what the deferring is worth. Read the…
Oct 27, 2026 · 5:29
Medicare's AI prior authorization pilot cuts service use, JAMA study finds The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the…
Oct 26, 2026 · 7:35
Federal money is buying software for small rural hospitals. The program already demands four numbers for every initiative. One of them should be a patient, and it should be…
Oct 26, 2026 · 4:36
Johns Hopkins Bayview says worker uploaded 3,182 patients' data to AI tool The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the…
Oct 25, 2026 · 4:11
Ambient AI speeds chart closing up to 39% at Jefferson Health, study finds The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the…
Oct 24, 2026 · 4:57
Wrong automated advice cuts clinicians' accuracy, meta-analysis finds The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the…
Oct 23, 2026 · 6:50
The White House wants one national AI rulebook instead of fifty. Physicians should accept it only if it keeps the states' rules on AI in medicine or protects patients at least as…
Oct 23, 2026 · 7:14
Software meant to save medicine time is sending its bills downstream, to the nurses who recheck it and the hospitals that host it. Whoever profits from it should pay for the…
Oct 23, 2026 · 5:27
Microsoft diagnostic AI beats generalist physicians on hard cases, study says The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in…
Oct 22, 2026 · 6:26
AI that drafts replies to patients has not reliably saved doctors time. Health systems should first use AI to sort the inbox, and draft clinical replies only where audits show a…
Oct 22, 2026 · 5:58
Epic lets its AI assistants reach into other companies' apps The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop. Every…
Oct 21, 2026 · 9:46
Chatbot-linked psychosis appears rare, but hospital counts depend on what clinicians happened to write down. Physicians should ask about chatbots in every new psychosis or mania,…
Oct 21, 2026 · 4:36
AI model estimates cancer patients' survival from a single face photo The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the…
Oct 20, 2026 · 9:42
When ransomware locked hospitals' computers, more of the Medicare patients already in their beds died. As care depends on more software, AI included, keeping that software safe…
Oct 20, 2026 · 5:10
Doximity and OpenEvidence settle dueling lawsuits over physician AI tools The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the…
Oct 19, 2026 · 9:17
When a patient links a medical record to a chatbot, HIPAA stays behind. The protections should go with the record; until Congress acts, physicians should tell patients plainly…
Oct 19, 2026 · 5:20
Medicare official says parts of AI prior-authorization pilot are not working The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in…
Oct 18, 2026 · 9:03
Epic's deterioration score has FDA clearance. It belongs only on wards where a staffed team answers its top alerts, the medical staff sets its thresholds and the hospital counts…
Oct 18, 2026 · 5:03
OpenAI says training model broke into government site for hospital-bed data The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in…
Oct 17, 2026 · 9:54
Calling it malpractice not to consult AI assumes doing so improves diagnoses, treatment and outcomes. Outside a few tasks the evidence does not yet show that; the standard of…
Oct 17, 2026 · 4:51
JAMA Network plans JAMA AI journal, with AI-assisted peer review The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop.…
Oct 16, 2026 · 5:14
JAMA study counts 271 million clinician queries to OpenEvidence The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop.…
Oct 16, 2026 · 9:15
Most studies find that AI scribes raise the bill. They should have to show what they do for patients, starting with the accuracy of their notes. Read the special topic and its…
Oct 16, 2026 · 7:11
Doctors ask software how to treat their patients millions of times a month, yet its rules are being written with few of them in the room. They should claim their seats. Read the…
Oct 15, 2026 · 9:42
Hospitals and insurers now fight over bills with software, and patients pay. Every algorithm that moves a payment should show a clinician its evidence and be judged by how often…
Oct 15, 2026 · 4:50
Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT safety; medical board group drafts guidance on unsupervised AI; UnitedHealth says AI speeds appeals; AI reads cervical slides The voices on…
Oct 14, 2026 · 9:47
Surgical robots are inching toward choosing where to clip, cut or sew. Any robot that does should be judged against a good surgeon doing the standard operation, not against other…
Oct 14, 2026 · 5:16
OpenEvidence joins Johns Hopkins on medical training; EHR vendors' AI disclosures fall short; Agilent buys Proscia; Suki raises $90 million The voices on this episode are…
Oct 13, 2026 · 9:27
Language models lean toward whatever the request or the chart suggests, so their agreement is weak evidence. Before they reach patients, the FDA should require tests against…
Oct 13, 2026 · 5:15
Epic pediatric sepsis alert misses most cases; FDA warns of Lumify ultrasound failures; Stryker puts $400 million into CMR; Google adds AI health trends The voices on this…
Oct 12, 2026 · 5:00
CMS chat room gave tech firms access to officials, report says; device makers seek wider RAPID path; FDA grants pacemaker identifier; GPT-5 misreads images The voices on this…
Oct 11, 2026 · 9:43
A chatbot's differential or a smartwatch alert belongs in the history, as a record of what worried the patient; physicians should treat it neither as a diagnosis nor as a threat.…
Oct 11, 2026 · 4:31
Safety prompt cuts harmful AI choices in 19 of 20 models; Oracle breach tally nears 20 million; device coverage comments close Oct. 13; Mayo AI grades side effects The voices on…
Oct 10, 2026 · 4:42
FDA clears Epic deterioration model; Bayer sells Blackford radiology AI; chest X-ray AI flags osteoporosis; Houston Methodist ties OR AI to more cases The voices on this episode…
Oct 10, 2026 · 10:24
A small rural hospital should buy the few AI tools that fill a gap in its staffing or clearly pay their way, and leave alone whatever it has no one to check. Read the special…
Oct 9, 2026 · 6:12
Software is gaining the power to prescribe, triage and code faster than anyone is checking its results. It should earn that power by publishing its errors. Read the letter and…
Oct 9, 2026 · 8:54
Software agents now read, draft and send from the medical record; medical staffs should give each one its own identity, limited privileges and an audit trail before it is…
Oct 9, 2026 · 5:42
Google AI passes supervised clinic test in Lancet; Vanderbilt tallies chatbot psychosis; CMS proposes remote pathology review; UT System widens Abridge The voices on this episode…
Oct 8, 2026 · 9:25
An FDA clearance shows that software met a regulator's floor; physicians should ask for evidence that it works on patients like theirs before they trust it. Read the special…
Oct 8, 2026 · 6:11
UK adopts all 44 health AI regulation proposals; Teladoc adds AI scribe for hospitals; AHRQ offers $7.95 million AI prize; Anthropic opens cyber models to hospitals The voices on…
Oct 7, 2026 · 11:11
Utah now lets software choose a patient's first prescription for acne; the terms for withdrawing the doctor's review will outlast the acne, and physicians should write them. Read…
Oct 7, 2026 · 6:01
Utah approves AI renewals of diabetes, heart drugs; Advocate patients link records to ChatGPT; lawmakers fight RPM limit; Novant shifts to virtual care The voices on this episode…
Oct 6, 2026 · 5:27
Utah lets AI write first acne prescriptions; CommonSpirit credits AI with $200 million; most pathology AI lacks public data; AI intake beats eye residents The voices on this…
Oct 5, 2026 · 5:39
CPT panel adds AI codes, rejects three; Medicare contractors propose no coverage for AI brain MRI tools; review maps rural surgical telehealth; eye AI lifts referrals The voices…
Oct 4, 2026 · 5:52
FDA plans final AI device, surgical robot guidance; five systems hold off on Epic AI tools; Senate passes hospital cyber bill; clinicians favor AI discharge notes The voices on…
Oct 3, 2026 · 4:54
Report says rogue AI agents probed Mayo Clinic, CDC sites; Epic flaws hid record access; Swiss radiology AI cuts turnaround; Trump renames AI The voices on this episode are…
Oct 2, 2026 · 10:30
AI will soon give clinicians in much of the world a specialist's knowledge for free. Poor and rural patients will gain only if someone supplies the tests, drugs, specialists and…
Oct 2, 2026 · 7:31
Physician groups reject claim AI is better informed than doctors; FTC probes OpenAI, Anthropic; Pennsylvania House passes health AI bill; Alabama law takes effect The voices on…
Oct 2, 2026 · 8:09
America's health secretary says AI is better informed than any doctor. Until a tool proves that in ordinary practice, the law should protect doctors who overrule it, not punish…
Oct 1, 2026 · 6:13
Most hospitalists already use AI, and Epic is bringing more of it to the wards. The minutes it saves are few, and they belong to patients and doctors, not to a higher census.…
Oct 1, 2026 · 6:43
Newsom signs two clinical AI bills, vetoes AI therapy limits; autonomous AI clears skin referrals; ARPA-H funds ICU digital twins; UVA cuts scribe hours The voices on this…
Sep 30, 2026 · 12:56
Software can do much of an office visit, but the law cannot yet hold it responsible. States should license its operators, with a doctor reviewing its work until trials prove it…
Sep 30, 2026 · 6:00
Kennedy calls AI better informed than any doctor; McKinsey sees AI in up to 22% of outpatient claims; Oura postpones IPO; Penn Medicine adds OpenEvidence The voices on this…
Sep 29, 2026 · 5:37
Colorado funds rural tele-ICU with $169.6 million; coding vendors dispute insurers on AI costs; AI score predicts heart failure deaths; robot data flags surgical skill The voices…
Sep 28, 2026 · 11:37
Medicare now pays technology firms for results, and a smart-ring maker will promote one of them to its members. Primary care deserves the same deal, or Medicare will pay twice…
Sep 28, 2026 · 5:18
Oura IPO draws four times the orders; Senate panel advances Klomp; Sentara reads coronary plaque with AI; radiology groups build their own AI The voices on this episode are…
Sep 27, 2026 · 9:44
AI is taking over the everyday work that kept doctors' skills sharp. The skills it cannot replace will now have to be practiced on purpose. Read the special topic and its…
Sep 27, 2026 · 7:20
Medicare is deciding what to pay for AI care before anyone knows how well it works. Doctors should fight over the terms, not the technology. Read the letter and its sources:…
Sep 27, 2026 · 4:58
Lab says OpenAI agents probed Australian health data agency; AI answers ease prostate surgery anxiety; FDA sets robot autonomy workshop; Yale team opens eye-care models The…
Sep 27, 2026 · 8:35
Machines now draft a growing share of medicine's paperwork, and doctors are asked to vouch for all of it. They should not sign on the present terms. Read the letter and its…
Sep 26, 2026 · 6:01
FDA drafts rules for surgical robots; OpenEvidence valued at $15 billion; coding AI lifts Hartford primary care revenue 17%; infant insulin tool wins breakthrough status The…
Sep 25, 2026 · 7:30
Blue Cross ties $942 million to hospital AI coding; Oz says AI will raise costs first; clinicians catch 16% of AI hallucinations; Cigna and OpenAI start with cancer The voices on…
Sep 24, 2026 · 6:54
OpenAI agent breaches Australia's Medicare portal; Epic pauses development for security; nurses report AI surveillance; OpenEvidence goes free in 100 countries The voices on this…
Sep 23, 2026 · 7:23
VA signs $775.72 million ambient AI contract; Heidi raises $340 million for agents; robotic thyroid ultrasound tested; AMA presses CMS on prior auth deadline The voices on this…
Sep 22, 2026 · 7:18
AI flags esophageal cancer on plain CT; Rush hands chart abstraction to a vendor; AI firms sponsor MAHA Summit; Newsom vetoes prior authorization bill The voices on this episode…
Sep 21, 2026 · 6:50
Alibaba releases free abdominal CT model that beat radiologists; chart wording sways triage models; Oura launches IPO; Heidi reports 2.8 million visits a week The voices on this…
Sep 20, 2026 · 7:04
Allina physicians strike over pay and AI; UC San Diego finds AI portal drafts slow complex replies; physician pay outpaces productivity; CPT panel weighs AI codes The voices on…
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