Daily Briefing for October 9, 2026
Physician in the Loop · Oct 9, 2026 · 5:42
Physician in the Loop · Oct 9, 2026 · 5:42
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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 are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop. Every fact in the post links to its source.
A Google conversational AI held supervised pre-visit conversations with about 100 patients at a Boston hospital without a single safety stop, according to a prospective study The Lancet published Oct. 8.
Physicians supervised every conversation in the single-arm study, which Alphabet funded, the authors reported. A day earlier, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry that 28 patients in its records had psychosis worsened by chatbot use, most of them in a first episode. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention proposed letting pathologists review digital slides and images from outside the laboratory, and the University of Texas System opened Abridge's ambient documentation software to all of its health institutions.
Everlywell began selling a mammogram risk model authorized by the Food and Drug Administration directly to consumers, Suki added an UpToDate-based question tool to its scribe app, and Healthleap raised $38 million for hospital screening software, the companies said.
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