CVS Wins Newsweek AI Award for LLM Tool That Reads Prescriptions Across 9,000 Pharmacies
CVS Health picked up a 2026 Newsweek AI Impact Award in May, recognized in the AI Health Care category for...
Month: August 2026
Seattle Fire Used AI to Screen Every 911 Medical Call for Years Without Telling the Public, Report Finds
Every 911 medical call placed in Seattle since December 2023 has been run through an AI system that dispatchers never...
Natera Launches In-House AI Foundation Model Trained on 250,000 Tumor Genomes to Push Precision Oncology Forward
Natera, the genetic testing company best known for its Signatera cancer-monitoring test, announced in 2026 that it has built its...
Nurses Stage Nationwide Protests Demanding Hospitals Cut Ties With Palantir’s AI Data Platforms
More than a hundred nurses in red union t-shirts blocked traffic outside Palantir Technologies' former Palo Alto headquarters on August...
Epic’s Real-Time Prior Authorization Checks Go Live at Four Health Systems, Months Ahead of Federal Deadline
Electronic health record giant Epic has launched a tool that lets clinicians instantly check whether a patient's insurer requires prior...
Twelve Major Health Systems Form Diagnostic AI Consortium With Aidoc to Set Shared Safety Standards
On August 11, 2026, twelve of the largest U.S. health systems announced they are forming the Diagnostic AI Consortium, a...
FDA Clears ThinkSono AI Tool Letting Non-Specialists Perform Vascular Ultrasounds
UK-based ultrasound AI company ThinkSono has announced that the FDA has granted 510(k) clearance for ThinkSono Guidance, software designed to...
A Toilet Seat That Reads Your Blood Pressure: Casana’s AI Smart Seat Goes Passive on Health Tracking
Health technology startup Casana has officially launched its Smart Seat, a sensor-embedded toilet seat that uses AI to measure blood...
FDA Expands Brainomix Stroke AI to Cover 60% of Routine Brain Scans Done Without Contrast Dye
On August 14, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted UK medtech company Brainomix a new clearance for its...
New Survey: Nurses Are Being Handed AI Tools They Don’t Trust and Were Never Trained to Use
Hospitals have raced to put AI tools into nurses' hands over the past two years, from documentation assistants to fall-detection...
