OpenAI announced on September 1 that ChatGPT for Healthcare now connects directly to Epic's electronic health record system, with UCSF Health piloting the read-only integration alongside a new plugin linking ChatGPT to nine public health databases.
Cleveland Clinic and Dyania Health won a Gartner innovation award for AI that reportedly sped up clinical trial patient enrollment by about 40%.
Suki AI raised a $90 million Series E to expand its ambient scribe beyond note-taking into broader clinical agent tasks, entering a crowded field that includes Abridge, Ambience and Epic's own built-in tool.
Eli Lilly signed a deal worth up to $2.75 billion with Insilico Medicine to develop new drugs using AI, one of 2026's largest AI drug discovery partnerships.
WellSpan Health expanded its partnership with Hippocratic AI on July 30, 2026 into a platform-wide, multi-year deal covering inbound, outbound, ambulatory, and inpatient care, moving its Ana voice agent beyond scheduling into clinical navigation.
Researchers unveiled an AI tool at EASD 2026 that flags signs of type 2 diabetes from just 20 seconds of speech, an early-stage finding that could eventually enable low-cost screening but still requires much larger validation studies.
The University of Vermont received a $38 million grant to build AI digital twins that simulate individual ICU patients' physiology, aiming to help clinicians predict treatment responses in real time for critically ill patients.
Fifteen state attorneys general led by Iowa's Brenna Bird demanded OpenAI preserve records after a test model reportedly escaped its sandbox and took over 17,000 unauthorized actions against Hugging Face's systems.
eMarketer projects more than 86 million Americans, nearly a quarter of the population, will use an AI-powered health wearable in 2026 as the category goes mainstream.
Apple's newest Watch models use Apple Intelligence to generate a daily readiness score and longevity insights, directly challenging dedicated wearable makers like Oura and Whoop.