Wysa’s AI Chat Therapy Earns FDA Breakthrough Status for Chronic Pain and Mental Health
Wysa, an AI-led mental health conversational agent delivered through a smartphone app, has received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for use...
Month: September 2026
Study of 1,400 Clinicians Finds AI Scribes Cut Physician Burnout From 52.6% to 30.7% in Under Three Months
A study published in JAMA Network Open has found that ambient AI scribes — software that listens to patient visits...
Chai Discovery Raises $400 Million to Scale AI Models That Design Antibodies for Lilly, Pfizer and Novartis
Chai Discovery, a startup building generative AI models for pre-clinical drug design, announced on July 14, 2026 that it raised...
Healthcare AI Vendor Xsolis Confirms Breach Exposing Data on 1.4 Million Patients Tied to Humana and Mayo Clinic
Xsolis, a healthcare AI and analytics company whose software helps more than 600 hospitals and health insurers make utilization-review and...
Meet Abi: The AI Companion Robot Heading From an Australian Care Home to US Senior Living
A robot named Abi, tested in a senior care home in Melbourne, Australia in 2025, is now making its way...
Germany’s Real-World PRAIM Rollout Shows AI Mammography Gains Hold Up Outside Clinical Trials
Most evidence for AI-assisted mammography has come from controlled trials or retrospective research studies. Germany's PRAIM program is different: it's...
Imperial College Study of 115,000 UK Mammograms Shows Google AI Beating a Radiologist’s First Read
Researchers at Imperial College London published a study in Nature Cancer in 2026 evaluating version 1.2 of a Google mammography...
Medtronic’s New Smart MDI System Merges Insulin Pen and CGM Data Into One Dashboard
The FDA cleared Medtronic's MiniMed Go Smart Multiple Daily Injection (MDI) system in January 2026, a move that folds two...
Humana Rolls Out Google Gemini-Powered ‘Agent Assist’ to 20,000 Call-Center Workers Handling 80 Million Calls a Year
Humana has begun rolling out a Google Cloud-built AI tool called Agent Assist across its member service operation, aiming to...
Georgia Passes Law Requiring a Human to Review Every AI-Flagged Insurance Denial Before It Takes Effect
Georgia lawmakers have moved to put a legal backstop between algorithms and patients' medical coverage. Senate Bill 444, sponsored by...
