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Every day we read what happened in AI and medicine and write down what it means for an independent practice — sourced, dated, and named.

Six physician organizations publicly reject the claim that AI is "better informed" than doctors

October 6, 2026

Six physician organizations publicly reject the claim that AI is "better informed" than doctors

October 5, 2026

Six physician organizations publicly reject the claim that AI is better informed than doctors

October 4, 2026

Six physician organizations publicly reject the claim that AI is better informed than doctors

October 3, 2026

ARPA-H puts up to $38M behind UVM's ICU "digital twin" — treatments tested on a simulated patient before the real one

October 2, 2026

VA opens a $775.72M five-year ambient scribe contract to all its medical centers, with Abridge already live at 75+ sites

September 24, 2026

Zocdoc will now make a clinic bookable inside Google Gemini and Amazon's health AI through one calendar connection, free to join, paying only when it brings a new patient

September 23, 2026

FDA's newest stem-cell warning letter quotes the company's own "What is Regenerative Medicine?" web page as proof the product is an unapproved drug

September 22, 2026

ARPA-H is funding a patient-facing clinical AI — and a second AI whose entire job is to catch the first one being wrong

September 21, 2026

Nearly 12,000 agents coordinated faster than humans could track, so the industry's answer is to put another AI on watch — and the auditors' own nickname for doing that was "slop-vestigation"

September 18, 2026

A site owner put a one-cent price tag on his own pages and watched Claude Code pay it mid-task — while Google's new publisher-payment pilot hands you a monthly figure and won't show the math

September 17, 2026

FOIA'd CMS records on the Medicare AI prior-auth pilot: several hundred requests still unanswered at the end of March, one of them 83 days old — and the provider complaints name kyphoplasty and pain procedures by name

September 16, 2026

Officials have discussed paying tech-company AI 60% to 80% of what a physician earns for the same service — and 200+ companies are already inside Medicare pilots that can involve AI

September 14, 2026

ARPA-H put $62.7M behind an autonomous AI that manages heart failure between visits — and told the three companies building it to file an FDA authorization package within two years

September 13, 2026

CMS created a "chief clinical AI officer" and she's openly working out when Medicare should pay for AI at all — and the FDA's comment window on generative-AI devices closes Oct 19

September 11, 2026

OpenEvidence split its answer engine into three speeds — 5 seconds, 30 seconds, 5 minutes — and locked the fourth model away over bioweapons risk

September 8, 2026

Regeneration still works in aged tissue — at a fraction of the efficiency. An Upstate lab named the thing blocking it: inflammation.

September 7, 2026

A Duke orthopedic surgeon did a hip arthroscopy wearing an Apple Vision Pro — the FDA authorized the app on July 17, and it's the first one cleared to run inside a live case

September 6, 2026

An Edinburgh team read the entire ambient-scribe literature and found almost nothing in it about the patient

September 5, 2026

Northwell cut time-to-intervention from 74 days to 30 by fixing who the patient gets sent to, not how fast they get booked

September 4, 2026

ARPA-H put $98.5M behind the idea that rare-disease AI is failing on data plumbing, not on algorithms

September 3, 2026

OpenAI wired ChatGPT into Epic — read-only, and gated behind a BAA

September 2, 2026

1. An SEO plugin on 4 million WordPress sites was caught minting itself an admin password — and it doesn't expire

August 30, 2026

ECRI opened a national channel for reporting AI errors in care — and says 9% of them have already reached a patient

August 29, 2026

A Mumbai hospital now generates 90% of its progress notes and nurse handovers with ambient AI — and the CIO's advice is that it only worked because they spent six months on governance before scaling a single ward

August 28, 2026

1 million ambient-AI encounters in, Ardent's CMIO says the 3× ROI is the least interesting number — the one that matters is that 87% adoption happened without anyone being told to

August 27, 2026

53% of American adults say they have no real say over whether AI is used in their care — and 46% don't even know whether it was

August 26, 2026

FDA just quoted a stem cell clinic's own YouTube video back at it — and warned the same doctor it warned in 2019

August 25, 2026

Two-thirds of practice staff lose an hour a day to manual data entry — and they can name the exact four workflows they'd hand to AI first

August 24, 2026

A JAMA piece says "doctor + AI" is no longer the gold standard — and the AMA published a framework the same week saying the opposite

August 23, 2026

Google is now generating the interactive tool inside the search result — and in Google's own testing people preferred it to the top-ranked page 90% of the time

August 22, 2026

The FDA just proposed testing medical AI the way it tests doctors — benchmark first, then clinical confirmation — and the comment window closes Oct 19

August 21, 2026

Oracle's clinical AI agent now writes the charge code — AI moved into the revenue workflow, not just the note

August 20, 2026

Epic's AI is now inside the visit — and a third of the conversations its patient agent has happen after hours

August 19, 2026

An 11-location independent practice pulled $250,000 in recovered revenue out of AI — and it came from the billing side, not the scribe

August 17, 2026

Your robots.txt does not stop ChatGPT — OpenAI's own documentation says so, and its bot reached blocked pages on nearly half the sites that explicitly listed it

August 15, 2026

Oracle just turned on a patient-facing AI chatbot for every one of its US EHR customers — patients can now interrogate their own chart_ _(Healthcare IT News — Aug 12 · Lens A/D)

August 12, 2026

"Responsible AI" just became a certification you can actually earn — and the first one in the country has been awarded_ _(Healthcare Finance News / Healthcare IT News — Aug 5 · Lens A)

August 11, 2026