A study of Abridge's AI scribe across 20 Sutter Health hospitals found physicians used it for less than half their notes and only 53% reported strong success — a sobering data point as ambient AI expands from outpatient clinics into inpatient wards.
Spectral AI is presenting validation data at the ACS Clinical Congress on its DeepView System, an FDA-cleared device that uses AI and multi-spectral imaging to predict within 25 seconds whether a burn wound will heal on its own or need surgery.
Bloomberg reports Apple is developing a home security camera and monitoring service for 2027 that analyzes surroundings using on-device AI rather than storing traditional video, alongside a smart home hub due before the end of 2026.
UpDoc has won FDA clearance for the first Software as a Medical Device built on a patient-facing large language model, an insulin-titration app for type 2 diabetes now backed by $18 million in seed funding and running at Cleveland Clinic, Allegheny Health Network and UCSF Health.
The FDA's Digital Health Advisory Committee is weighing how to regulate AI therapy chatbots after Woebot's 2025 shutdown exposed the gap, while patient-safety group ECRI has named the chatbots the top health technology hazard of 2026.
Oura filed to go public on September 4, 2026, targeting a valuation above $16 billion and citing nearly 42 billion hours of physiological data behind its AI health models, even as a class-action lawsuit challenges the accuracy of its sleep-stage tracking.
DeepHealth has won FDA clearance for two new Breast Suite features: an AI tool that flags cardiovascular risk from routine screening mammograms with over 90% sensitivity, and an upgraded Mammo Dx that compares current and prior exams to cut unnecessary recalls.
Medtronic has won FDA clearance for Stealth AXiS, a platform that combines AI-based surgical planning, real-time navigation and robotics for spine surgery, with a follow-on clearance expanding it into cranial and ENT procedures.
Meta has begun production of its custom Iris AI chip, built with Broadcom on TSMC's 3-nanometer process, as part of a plan to double its AI computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027 and reduce its reliance on Nvidia GPUs for internal workloads.
Subtle Medical won FDA clearance to bring its AI image-enhancement software to CT scans after years of use on MRI, a move that could let hospitals lower radiation doses while preserving diagnostic image quality across tens of millions of annual CT exams.