https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine AI, devices, digital health, and what the evidence supports. en-us https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/maccabi-biobank-deafness-genomics https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/maccabi-biobank-deafness-genomics Linking exome data to electronic medical records solved 15% of unexplained hearing-loss cases and flagged new candidate genes — while showing what the records could not supply. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/digital-therapeutic-patellofemoral-pain-trial https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/digital-therapeutic-patellofemoral-pain-trial In 216 patients with chronic patellofemoral pain across 10 Korean hospitals, an 8-week digital therapeutic beat education and exercise instruction on pain — by 12.5 mm on a 100 mm scale. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/colonoscopy-quality-feedback-trial-denmark https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/colonoscopy-quality-feedback-trial-denmark A Danish stepped-wedge trial gave endoscopists automated feedback on their technique after every procedure. Adenoma detection rose from 43.4% to 48.6% — a different tool from real-time polyp AI. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ecg-clip-foundation-model-label-efficiency https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ecg-clip-foundation-model-label-efficiency Trained on 1.7 million ECGs paired with clinicians' report text, ECG-CLIP reached the same accuracy as the best comparator with about 90% less training data — a bid at the field's labelling bottleneck. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-triage-digital-front-door-engagement https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-triage-digital-front-door-engagement In 6,772 users of a US health system's AI triage tool, people engaged about twice as often when the AI matched what they already planned — raising a hard question about what the tools are steering. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-medication-adherence-prediction-review https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-medication-adherence-prediction-review A review of 41 studies found that the great majority of AI medication-adherence prediction models carried high risk of bias, and that fancier algorithms did not reliably predict better. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/acp-ai-ethics-position-paper https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/acp-ai-ethics-position-paper Relationality, self-governance, competence. The position paper's starting premise is that consensus on privacy, disclosure and fairness has not been reached, and clinicians need guidance anyway. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/foundation-models-german-licensing-exams https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/foundation-models-german-licensing-exams Across 24 official German licensing exams, the best model answered 99.31% of first-exam items correctly. On items containing an image, the error rate rose several-fold, against 1.24x for students. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/digital-health-policy-latin-america https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/digital-health-policy-latin-america Thirty-two interviews across Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Mexico find implementation turned on governance, not software. A separate patent analysis shows where digital therapeutics are not being built. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-sepsis-prediction-meta-analysis https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-sepsis-prediction-meta-analysis A network meta-analysis of 53 studies and more than 7 million admissions finds machine learning out-discriminates traditional sepsis scores — and would raise roughly two false alarms for every real one. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-drafted-clinical-guidelines-quicker https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-drafted-clinical-guidelines-quicker A system called Quicker writes clinical guideline recommendations through a GRADE workflow. A Matters Arising and its reply, published the same day, map what still has to be built around it. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/wrist-blood-pressure-smartwatch-osa-validation https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/wrist-blood-pressure-smartwatch-osa-validation European hypertension specialists found only two wrist-cuff blood pressure watches with validation studies done to established protocols. A sleep group ran a Galaxy Watch against two nights of polysomnography. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-medical-devices-patient-outcomes-gap https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-medical-devices-patient-outcomes-gap A researcher who expected the evidence base to be thin says even she was surprised by how thin. Most cleared devices never appear in a registered clinical trial at all. Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/uae-ai-sepsis-prediction-hospitals https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/uae-ai-sepsis-prediction-hospitals The tool reads vital signs, lab results, and history the way clinicians already do — just faster and continuously. Its accuracy tops out around 90%, which means it's also still wrong a meaningful share of the time. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/fda-genai-medical-devices-discussion-paper https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/fda-genai-medical-devices-discussion-paper A new discussion paper proposes a two-axis risk framework and a physician-training analogy for evaluating generative AI devices. It is not a rule, and the agency is asking what one should look like. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/cgm-initiation-mortality-veterans-type-1-diabetes https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/cgm-initiation-mortality-veterans-type-1-diabetes Emulating a trial inside Veterans Health Administration records, researchers estimated adjusted mortality risk ratios of 0.90 to 0.84 for starting continuous glucose monitoring in older-onset type 1 diabetes. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/otc-hearing-aids-evidence https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/otc-hearing-aids-evidence It found no meaningful difference at six weeks. It enrolled 64 people, tested one device, and ran for six weeks. That is the entire head-to-head evidence base three years after the category opened. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-drug-discovery-translational-gap https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-drug-discovery-translational-gap A Nature Reviews Drug Discovery audit says the problem isn't the models. They were built to be validated rather than used, and benchmarked against the wrong thing. Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/start-ai-sydney-emergency-admission-prediction https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/start-ai-sydney-emergency-admission-prediction START-AI reads triage comments, case notes and whether anyone ordered a blood test. Adding heart rate and blood pressure to the model produced no measurable improvement — a result the team published rather than buried. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/health-information-exchange-outcomes-veterans https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/health-information-exchange-outcomes-veterans A study of 2.4 million veterans a month finds health information exchange volume moving outcomes in opposite directions depending on which side of the exchange you are on. Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/brazil-telehealth-llm-teleconsultation-comparison https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/brazil-telehealth-llm-teleconsultation-comparison A blinded comparison of 180 responses from a university telehealth centre in Minas Gerais found AI matched human specialists on medical adequacy and risk, and beat them on comprehensibility. Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/llm-assisted-rare-disease-diagnosis-study https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/llm-assisted-rare-disease-diagnosis-study 42 orthopedic physicians diagnosed 40 rare diseases twice, once alone and once after seeing AI suggestions. Accuracy jumped 20 to 26 points, but the same-day design leaves memory unaccounted for. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-fairness-metrics-clinical-prediction https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-fairness-metrics-clinical-prediction A Lancet Digital Health scoping review found the field's fairness metrics fragmented and rarely clinically validated. A second review found that most studies don't measure fairness at all. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-prostate-cancer-pathology-review https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-prostate-cancer-pathology-review A review of Paige Prostate Detect and Ibex Prostate Detect finds the tools mainly help less-specialized pathologists, and warns performance shifts when a tool meets a new population. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/maccabi-uti-ai-adoption-physicians https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/maccabi-uti-ai-adoption-physicians Maccabi Healthcare Services studied 626 of its own physicians to work out who follows algorithmic prescribing advice — and found the pattern was about practice structure, not just attitude. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-dispatcher-copilot-cardiac-arrest-proposal https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-dispatcher-copilot-cardiac-arrest-proposal A paper in the journal Resuscitation lays out how a large language model could help dispatchers recognize cardiac arrest and coach CPR in real time — while acknowledging the concept still needs to prove it saves lives. Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/neuro-symbolic-ai-cholangitis-benchmark https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/neuro-symbolic-ai-cholangitis-benchmark A small proof-of-concept study pitted several AI systems against gastroenterologists and emergency physicians on cholangitis exam questions. The gap between the best and worst AI performers was enormous. Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/digital-therapeutics-approvals-and-effect-sizes https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/digital-therapeutics-approvals-and-effect-sizes A new structured dataset finally makes the approvals countable. Two trials published weeks apart show why counting them says little: 0.86 fewer migraine days in one, a 20-point symptom shift in the other. Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/fda-new-category-ai-wound-assessment-device https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/fda-new-category-ai-wound-assessment-device The agency granted its first authorization for a software-aided adjunctive diagnostic device in wound assessment, a category built for tools that analyze a wound optically. Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/llm-clinical-trial-screening-bias-study https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/llm-clinical-trial-screening-bias-study A study running 5.3 million evaluations through nine large language models found eligibility judgments were largely stable across identity labels — except when a patient vignette mentioned homelessness. Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/nice-digital-mental-health-evidence-gaps https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/nice-digital-mental-health-evidence-gaps A cross-sectional analysis of NICE evaluations found 78 supporting studies behind 30 technologies — and consistent holes in comparators, cost of delivery and adverse-event reporting. Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/dxdirector-agentic-ai-diagnosis-study https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/dxdirector-agentic-ai-diagnosis-study DxDirector-7B beat human physicians on a benchmark of complex diagnostic cases while requesting far fewer tests. Its own authors say it isn't ready for high-risk or emergency cases. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-ecg-atrial-fibrillation-screening-yield https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-ecg-atrial-fibrillation-screening-yield A secondary analysis of the VITAL-AF trial reports a screening benefit only in the top risk decile — with a confidence interval whose lower bound sits at 0.01. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/africa-health-data-science-infrastructure-readiness https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/africa-health-data-science-infrastructure-readiness A Nature Communications review of the continent's biomedical data science capacity found none of 36 surveyed groups using cloud high-performance computing, and named electricity outages among the most common obstacles. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/fda-clears-ai-feeding-tube-position-check https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/fda-clears-ai-feeding-tube-position-check GE's Critical Care Suite gains an algorithm that flags misplaced enteric tubes on a chest X-ray — a complication that reviews of the practice have linked to respiratory harm and, in some cases, death. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/medical-device-cybersecurity-fda-alerts https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/medical-device-cybersecurity-fda-alerts A content analysis of every FDA cybersecurity safety communication from 2013 to 2025 finds a small corpus, rising over time, and 94% of the flagged vulnerabilities rated severe. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/fda-clears-ecg-ai-pulmonary-hypertension https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/fda-clears-ecg-ai-pulmonary-hypertension The clearance is the third in a growing family of machine-learning notification algorithms built to spot serious cardiac conditions from a routine 12-lead ECG, a test most patients already get. Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/china-ai-medical-device-approvals https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/china-ai-medical-device-approvals A new audit of China's regulatory record finds a market concentrated in radiology, dominated by deep learning, and clustered in four cities. It also finds the approval curve flattening. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/llm-medical-advice-public-reliability-study https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/llm-medical-advice-public-reliability-study A 1,298-person randomized study found people using chatbots to work through medical scenarios did no better than people without them — even though the same chatbots, tested alone, got the right answer most of the time. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/chatgpt-health-triage-stress-test https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/chatgpt-health-triage-stress-test Researchers ran 960 responses through ChatGPT Health using clinician-written vignettes. Failures clustered at both extremes, and crisis safeguards activated unpredictably. Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ptau217-clocks-timing-prediction https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ptau217-clocks-timing-prediction Three February papers push plasma p-tau217 past detection: clock models estimating years to symptom onset, four assays compared head to head, and a real-world audit of what the result changes. Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-scribes-adoption-ahead-of-evidence https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-scribes-adoption-ahead-of-evidence A February theme issue documents faster notes, happier clinicians and enterprise rollouts to thousands. It also contains an editorial asking the question none of the studies answer. Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/pace-me-long-covid-app-trial https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/pace-me-long-covid-app-trial A 250-person randomised trial paired a wearable tracker with just-in-time energy-management messages. Post-exertional malaise fell in both arms, and the difference between them was trivial. Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/human-llm-collaboration-meta-analysis https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/human-llm-collaboration-meta-analysis Ten studies, wide confidence intervals, and factual error rates of 26 to 36 percent in AI-drafted documentation. The review's own conclusion is that the evidence is preliminary and highly uncertain. Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/telesurgery-non-inferiority-trial https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/telesurgery-non-inferiority-trial A trial across five Chinese hospitals found remote robotic urological surgery non-inferior to local surgery. The sample is small, the surgeons were experts, and the network never failed. Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-chatbots-alcohol-support https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-chatbots-alcohol-support Clinicians rated empathy at 4.6 out of 5 and quality of information at 2.7. Every chatbot produced at least one piece of guidance judged inappropriate, overstated or inaccurate. Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/pulse-oximeter-skin-tone-nhs https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/pulse-oximeter-skin-tone-nhs An 11,018-measurement study in 24 English intensive care units found false negative rates up to 35.3 percentage points higher in patients with darker skin tones. A neonatal study published two days later did not. Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/nvidia-lilly-ai-drug-lab https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/nvidia-lilly-ai-drug-lab The announced lab pairs robotic wet labs with computational models in a continuous loop. It is a serious bet on a real bottleneck — and, so far, entirely a forward-looking statement. Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/fda-cds-guidance-january-2026 https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/fda-cds-guidance-january-2026 Revised guidance reverses the 2022 position that a single recommendation made software a device. The agency's own criterion — that a clinician can independently review the basis — now carries the weight. Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/general-wellness-guidance-wearable-claims https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/general-wellness-guidance-wearable-claims The FDA's revised general wellness policy lets non-invasive devices infer blood pressure, glucose and other physiologic parameters. The regulated line is no longer the measurement — it is the sentence next to it. Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine