Latest Healthcare AI News &amp; Updates

SJTU AI College Teams with Ant Health on Med AI Lab

Shanghai Jiao Tong University AI College and Ant Health signed a cooperation agreement to launch AI4HealthCare Joint Lab. Focus areas include R&D of medical specialist AI agents and clinical adaptation applications.

36氪 · 169d ago

myStoria Raises $1.625M for AI Health Navigation

Ontario startup myStoria raised $1.625M led by Graphite Ventures to blend AI with human experts for patients facing PCOS, endometriosis, fertility, and perimenopause. These conditions have the longest diagnostic delays and fragmented care.

The Next Web (TNW) · 172d ago

Mantis Biotech Builds Human Digital Twins

Mantis Biotech creates synthetic datasets from disparate data sources to build digital twins of the human body. These twins represent anatomy, physiology, and behavior.

TechCrunch AI · 173d ago

Safety Framework Evaluates Voice AI for Care Homes

This arXiv paper presents a safety-focused evaluation framework for a multi-agent voice-enabled smart speaker in care homes, supporting tasks like resident records access, reminders, and scheduling. Evaluations on 330 transcripts show 100% resident ID and care category accuracy with GPT-5.2, 89% reminder recognition with perfect recall, and 84.65% scheduling correctness.

ArXiv AI · 177d ago

Reflective Reasoning Boosts Clinical Data Extraction

Proposes deep reflective reasoning, an LLM agent framework that iteratively self-critiques and revises structured outputs for consistency in clinical notes. Evaluated on three oncology tasks, it improves F1 scores up to 0.911 and accuracies to 0.948.

ArXiv AI · 179d ago

Clinicians Shift AI Notes to Clinical Language

Ambient AI generates draft clinical notes using consumer phrasing, which clinicians edit to standardized terminology. Analysis of 71,173 note pairs shows significant reductions in terminology density, with 59.3% of transformations in Assessment and Plan sections.

ArXiv AI · 182d ago

Alphabet Loses Control of Verily AI Pivot

Verily is restructuring with a $300M investment round, converting from LLC to Verily Health Inc., leaving Alphabet with a minority stake. The company is now focusing on AI to deliver precise, personalized healthcare solutions.

Engadget · 184d ago

Baidu Health Preps DoctorClaw AI Assistant

Baidu Health's DoctorClaw, an OpenClaw-based AI for doctors, is set for imminent release as a top-priority project under GM Yang Minglu. It automates research organization, paper tracking, follow-ups, and literature monitoring.

36氪 · 185d ago

SetupAIApplications

Auditing Tool for Healthcare ML Safety

New platform audits ML decisions in healthcare by recording and replaying conditions like microscopy data changes. Traces exact inputs, model state, and timing for transparency.

Reddit r/MachineLearning · 191d ago

SetupAIResearch

DAMO Launches MAOSS Fatty Liver AI Model

Alibaba's DAMO Academy released MAOSS, an AI model for fatty liver screening. This is highlighted in Sspai's daily news roundup.

少数派 · 193d ago

CVS & Google Cloud Launch AI Health Platform

CVS Health is partnering with Google Cloud to launch Health100, an AI-powered platform designed as a one-stop destination for consumer healthcare. CVS Chief Experience & Technology Officer Tilak Mandadi states it empowers consumers to take ownership of their health.

Bloomberg Technology · 198d ago

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health Tool

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health in January, a specialized chatbot that analyzes users' medical records, wellness apps, and wearable device data to answer health questions. The program is currently on a waiting list.

SCMP Technology · 199d ago

ChatGPT Health Misses Medical Emergencies

A study found ChatGPT Health failed to recommend hospital visits in over 50% of medically necessary cases and often missed suicidal ideation. Experts label it 'unbelievably dangerous' due to risks of harm and death.

The Guardian Technology · 205d ago

Ant AI Pay & Health App Hit 100M Users

Ant Group’s AI Pay and health app A-Fu each exceeded 100 million users during Spring Festival. The report underscores their aggressive expansion into AI-powered payments and healthcare.

Pandaily · 207d ago

Open Source

Agentic AI: smolagents on AWS Tutorial

Hugging Face smolagents is an open-source library for building agents with minimal code. Integrate it with AWS services to deploy a healthcare AI agent.

AWS Machine Learning Blog · 208d ago

Healthcare AI Moves Beyond Chatbots

AI is entering labor-intensive workflows across internet healthcare, including prescription review, chronic disease management, operations, dispatching, order intake, and follow-up. Health160, Zhiyun, Fangzhou, and Xikang are presented as early beneficiaries of this shift.

钛媒体 · 16d ago

DRG/DIP 3.0 Reshapes Healthcare Payment

China’s DRG/DIP 3.0 reform expands and refines payment groups, introduces 158 reference-based primary-care conditions, and formalizes exceptions for complex cases and innovative technologies. The policy also restricts using disease-group payment standards as direct physician performance quotas, while creating clearer payment signals for surgical robots, new drugs, and medical devices.

虎嗅 · 17d ago

AI Glasses Help Patients Speak Without a Voice

CommunicationBoard+AI uses AI technology and smart glasses to support communication for patients who can no longer speak after conditions such as stroke. The article explores how the system works, its development background, and its future direction through interviews with developer Rocket Studio and others.

ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 18d ago

da Vinci新機器人獲批，挑戰Olympus

Intuitive Surgical 的全新 da Vinci 手術機器人已獲批准，並將進入 Olympus 長期深耕的市場腹地。文章聚焦兩家公司在手術機器人領域可能展開的正面競爭。

钛媒体 · 19d ago

When AI Outperforms Doctors

A recent paper argues that AI can outperform human doctors in some aspects of medical practice. The findings are prompting doctors to question how their roles may change as AI becomes more capable.

Wired AI · 22d ago

Why AI Needs Humans in Vulnerable Spaces

The article examines the risks of people relying on AI in emotionally or medically vulnerable situations. It argues that healthcare should require a human who remains ultimately responsible for AI-assisted decisions.

TechCabal · 23d ago

Alibaba Health Loses Ground After a Decade

The analysis compares Alibaba Health and JD Health, arguing that Alibaba’s early advantages in licensing, traffic, and revenue did not translate into lasting leadership. Four CEO changes and repeated strategic shifts contrasted with JD Health’s steadier management and focus on medical-product commerce.

虎嗅 · 24d ago

Cancer AI’s Real Bottleneck Is Data

The article argues that AI is still far from curing cancer, with data quality and availability identified as the central obstacle. An unnamed startup believes better cancer datasets are essential for meaningful progress.

TechCrunch AI · 31d ago

Infrastructure

How Heidi Scaled Production AI for Healthcare

Heidi’s AI Care Partner uses Heidi Scribe to automate clinical administration across more than 190 countries and approximately 2.7 million patient interactions weekly. The company attributes its scale to regionally isolated deployments, strict auditability, safe release practices, and a document-oriented data architecture.

VentureBeat · 33d ago

Dognosis Trains Dogs and AI to Detect Cancer

Bengaluru startup Dognosis combines trained sniffer dogs with artificial intelligence to flag possible cancer from breath samples. The approach is still being evaluated as prescreening in trials, not as a proven diagnostic method.

The Next Web (TNW) · 36d ago

Tempus AI’s First Profit Wasn’t From AI

Tempus AI reported 3.8 billion dollars in Q2 2026 revenue and a 5.642 million dollar net profit, but its operating loss widened to 75.913 million dollars. The article argues that the profit came mainly from approximately 103 million dollars in non-operating income, including 98.47 million dollars of unrealized stock gains, rather than from AI commercialization.

虎嗅 · 36d ago

AI Targets the Global Fatty Liver Epidemic

More than one billion people worldwide have excess liver fat, which can progress to serious health problems. Researchers believe AI could identify fatty liver earlier and support interventions before the disease becomes life-threatening.

Wired AI · 37d ago

Infrastructure

Where AI Infrastructure Budgets Go Over

Wasabi Technologies published survey findings on AI adoption among healthcare institutions. The survey highlights that IT infrastructure consumes roughly 70% of AI budgets, raising concerns about infrastructure cost overruns.

ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 46d ago