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DATE: August 25, 2026 at 09:44AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: FDA promises new AI guidance, and what happened at Epic’s UGM
Good morning health tech readers!
I’m back from vacation! What did I miss? Drop me a line and let me know what you’re watching as the summer winds down. (Yes, I saw the JAMA paper claiming AI alone may soon be better than AI working with doctors.)
Today, we’re catching up on the FDA’s new discussion paper on generative AI devices and all the news about Epic we didn’t get to before the break last week.
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DATE: August 25, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: AI is good at catching drug theft at hospitals, but only when humans do their part
In late September 2024, patients noticed a nurse at Adventist Health in Bakersfield, Calif., was acting strangely.
The nurse was walking barefoot through the intensive care unit, talking to herself and acting abrasively toward others. Family members of patients noticed the nurse sloppily taking out IV needles but were afraid to confront her. “I know she was on something because you can tell,” one family member told federal investigators after the incident.
Another patient in the post-anesthesiology recovery unit treated by the same nurse was in excruciating pain under her care. “I was white knuckling it,” he said. “You’re not dying,” the nurse replied when the patient expressed his pain. He thought he was being given fentanyl and morphine, but the IV drip didn’t seem to help.
That’s because the nurse, hired through a travel nursing agency several weeks before the incident, was taking the medications from a secured cabinet in the wing and using them herself, while documenting that they had been administered to patients, according to investigators from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services tasked with investigating a complaint about the incident in November 2024.
The incident didn’t happen out of the blue. Hospital managers ignored alerts from a machine learning software that tracks when staff might be stealing drugs, auditors found.
Hospitals are major repositories of addictive substances that can also be crucial medical treatments. Occasionally, employees steal those drugs and are under the influence while caring for patients. While new technologies are helping to identify theft and connect individuals with substance abuse resources, incidents like the one at Adventist show artificial intelligence isn’t foolproof.
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DATE: August 24, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT MEDICAL DEVICESTITLE: STAT+: FDA digital health leader promises generative AI regulatory guidance is coming
The Food and Drug Administration says it is developing a plan for how to regulate medical devices that use generative artificial intelligence.
The FDA will eventually release documents spelling out agency policies regarding the technology, Rick Abramson, director of the agency’s Digital Health Center of Excellence, told STAT.
“Our goal is formal policy guidance,” he said in an interview. “The ecosystem is expecting clarity. We seek to provide that clarity, and I’ll also throw in that I think the ecosystem can expect not only broad guidance on the overall topic of generative AI, but also some more narrowly constructed specialty guidance on particular generative AI topics of special interest or special complexity.”
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DATE: August 24, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: FDA digital health leader promises generative AI regulatory guidance is coming
The Food and Drug Administration says it is developing a plan for how to regulate medical devices that use generative artificial intelligence.
The FDA will eventually release documents spelling out agency policies regarding the technology, Rick Abramson, director of the agency’s Digital Health Center of Excellence, told STAT.
“Our goal is formal policy guidance,” he said in an interview. “The ecosystem is expecting clarity. We seek to provide that clarity, and I’ll also throw in that I think the ecosystem can expect not only broad guidance on the overall topic of generative AI, but also some more narrowly constructed specialty guidance on particular generative AI topics of special interest or special complexity.”
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Doctors describe Gaza healthcare crisis at Charleston panel
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Five doctors who recently returned from medical missions in Gaza shared their experiences with…
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It could be nothing serious, but early diagnosis & treatment of cancer can save lives. #cancer #health #healthcare #healthtips #medical #doctor #MedMastodon
Music Credit: Akon's Beautiful Day by Akon
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Stuck in These Clouds
The song, “Stuck in These Clouds” by Jervis Campbell played from my Spotify list this morning, and I thought, Yes…that describes this past week. A low-pressure system settled over my heart and mind, and I just couldn’t find my way out of the clouds. I couldn’t find happiness in the things that usually pull me out of a funk. I still read my Bible every day, looking for encouraging verses, maybe a roadmap out of this pit. I cried out to God then listened for His still small voice. I kept hearing, Trust Me. I knew He was with me through it all, holding my hand. I was exhausted, like I was carrying a weighted blanket with me wherever I went.
I got a reprieve yesterday when my family came over to hang out and I got to bond with my 2-month-old grandson and giggle with my 2-year-old granddaughter. This morning, I looked to the sunrise for some inspiration. Sunrises are my favorite! They give me HOPE. I took the picture above and remembered that the light always dispels the darkness.
I wish I could say that the storm has lifted, but I still feel like I am walking around in a fog. I have an appointment with my PCP this Tuesday. So, I checked my blood test results online to prepare for our conversation. There were 19 values out of the reference range! NINETEEN! I think that is the most I’ve ever had. I knew my blood sugar would be out of whack, because it always is. But, eighteen other things too? This is my body screaming at me that something is very wrong. I did what doctors tell you never to do…I googled all of the tests that were out of range to see what was going on. Now, I can add anxiety to my list. I will wait to hear what my kind, knowledgeable doctor has to say about them. I always leave her office feeling so much better. Until then, I could use some prayer, friends.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/the-guardian-view-on-trumps-mmr-executive-order-endangering-the-children-he-claims-to-care-about. This is utterly irresponsible, & will kill #American #children. Donald #Trump is NOT an #expert on #vaccines, he is NOT a #doctor, & yet he presumes to issue an Executive Order advising States to offer #parents separate vaccines for measles, mumps & rubella, instead of the combined #MMR #vaccine, when the separate vaccines aren't even available.
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DATE: August 20, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: How health systems are embracing chatbots to query and summarize patient records
The pathologists were stumped. Six people had tried to identify a patient’s cancer based on a recent lymph node biopsy. They’d stained the cells 70 times to try to draw out more distinguishing features — but still, nobody had an answer.
At Stanford, a physician called onto the case was trying out a new tool called ChatEHR, one of several large language model-powered tools being deployed by health systems to summarize patients’ often-extensive medical records. It got a question: Did the patient have any history of skin lesions? After some back-and-forth, from the depths of the patient’s history, ChatEHR delivered an answer: In a different health system, the patient had previously been diagnosed with sarcomatoid squamous cell carcinoma.
It “completely explained the findings in the lymph node,” wrote the happy doctor in their feedback for the chatbot. “If that doesn’t prove the value of ChatEHR, I don’t know what does!”
This was the kind of needle in a haystack doctors hoped to find when health systems first started experimenting with generative AI tools like ChatEHR to search and synthesize patients’ health records. Clinicians often struggle to find the information they need to care for patients, because modern electronic health records have gotten so bloated. Today, a number of health systems are moving toward broad implementation of chatbots for EHRs, both homegrown and vendor-built. And it turns out that solving diagnostic mysteries is the least of their selling points.
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Music Credit: Beautiful (Acoustic Version) by Giulio Cercato
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Good morning. 🌹🌹🌹
19 August 2026
I went to see one of my doctors yesterday. My wife goes with me to help interpret — my hearing makes it hard to understand people, especially if they have any kind of accent. It’s a little disconcerting because doctors often end up talking to her instead of me. I’m sitting right there thinking, Hello! I’m still here and I can hear you.
And it’s true — I can hear them well enough to catch most of what’s being said, especially my wife, whose voice I’m tuned to like a homing beacon. I can hear her in a crowded Walmart even if I’m on the other side of the store. That’s just the way it is.
Anyway, at one point during the appointment, while discussing my treatment, my doctor used the phrase “he’s special.” My brain did a double‑take. Whoa — I’m special? Isn’t that subtle code for “he’s a little slow”? My ears perked up because for a split second I wondered if I had a reputation. The phrase itself just tickled me.
Of course, I knew she meant my particular physiology — that my treatment plan needed to be slightly different from the standard approach. But it still struck me as funny.
When we got out to the car, buckled our seat belts, and I started the engine, I turned to my wife and said, “I’m special.” She laughed too, though not nearly as hard as I did.
One of the great gifts in life is being able to laugh at yourself. People who take themselves too seriously must be miserable on the inside. We’re all only here for a short time — so don’t take yourself too seriously. It’s all the same in the end.
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde
“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.” — Epictetus
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” — Mark Twain
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DATE: August 19, 2026 at 07:25AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: What Epic did — and didn’t — say about AI at its annual meeting
You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday.
Before and after intermission at its annual meeting, a couple Epic staffers announce a list of new customers (and which EHR that health system switched from). They also play a snippet of a song that goes along with the health system’s name or location — e.g., Louis Armstrong’s “Hello Dolly” for the Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital.
Here’s what I’d love to know: Who picks these songs? Seems like a tough job. For another song that played during the executive address, scroll down to Song of the Week.
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#Death #NDE #SamParnia #Study #Studies #Medicine #NearDeath #Medical #NearDeathStudies #Research #Medicine #Health #Doctor #Life #Consciousness #Brain #Living #Resuscitation #Aware #Aware2 AWARE and AWARE II brought NDE’s from the fringe into mainstream science, and whenever Sam Parnia speaks we definitely need to listen…
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DATE: August 17, 2026 at 10:40AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: The IRS is probing UnitedHealth, and a private equity slowdown
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Hello, everyone. Like usual, I’m writing to you from northwest Indiana. But the circumstances are a bit different: We had power for four days. At least six tornadoes touched down in the area as part of a sprawling derecho — the worst storms I’ve experienced in my life, by far. Mother Nature remains undefeated. Talk to me about sump pumps and your health care tips: [email protected].
The taxman is coming for UnitedHealth Group
The Internal Revenue Service is investigating UnitedHealth, “seeking to significantly increase taxable income” from 2017 through 2020, and may force UnitedHealth to pay more “for subsequent years after 2020,” the health insurer revealed in a recent regulatory filing.
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DATE: August 17, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Epic confronts unprecedented challenges as it prepares to address customers and unveil road map
Every August, Epic Systems founder Judy Faulkner holds court with over 20,000 people, including staff and executives from her most devoted customers, in an auditorium buried five stories into the Wisconsin earth. At the company’s annual meeting, she takes the stage to unveil her company’s latest innovations — products that inevitably form a technological road map for America’s hospitals.
This year, the crowd will also be watching Faulkner’s speech for another reason.
The company she founded nearly half a century ago, now the nation’s dominant seller of electronic health records software, is facing an unprecedented series of challenges driven by antitrust lawsuits, questions about its artificial intelligence strategy, an exodus of key technology leaders, and, most recently, the disclosure that state and federal investigators are looking into the company’s business practices.
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DATE: August 14, 2026 at 05:00PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: Epic’s alleged anti-competitive practices under scrutiny from federal, state investigators
The Federal Trade Commission is examining Epic Systems Corp., the nation’s largest vendor of electronic health records, for potential violations of antitrust law as part of a broad inquiry into the company’s business practices, according to three people who were recently contacted by investigators.
The probe is in its early stages and may never lead to charges against Epic, whose dominant market position and control of Americans’ health data has rapidly accelerated in recent years. But the people contacted by investigators — who work in or advise health care businesses that interface with Epic — said they were asked about a wide range of issues relating to company policies and practices that have generated continual complaints and lawsuits from former employees and rival companies.
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DATE: August 14, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: Opinion: MAHA and insurance companies both want to treat human bodies like cars
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/14/health-insurance-companies-maha-surveillance/?utm_campaign=rss
After doing three loops around the parking lot, you finally see a free spot. You step on the gas to claim it, but an SUV cuts in front of you and steals the space. You stomp on the brakes, jerking to a halt. You might forgive the other driver, but your Toyota remembers.
Later, as you drive home, your eyes wander to the restaurant that just opened on the corner. Your car loudly beeps you back to attention, the dashboard scolding, “keep eyes on the road.” Your car is watching you, and that hard stop and brief glance to the side are data sent directly to your car insurer, churning into an algorithm that decides your future premiums.
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DATE: August 13, 2026 at 05:49PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Commure terminates payments under its customer referral programs tied to AI products
Commure, a $7 billion health software company that sells artificial intelligence tools to medical clinics, has terminated a program through which it was paying parties for referrals to new customers, according to company emails obtained by STAT.
The emails, sent by Commure’s chief legal officer, Dan Brian, inform members of the partnership program that their payment agreements will be terminated 30 days from receipt of the company’s notice. One email, dated Aug. 6, states that anything owed under the agreement as of the termination date will be “paid in full.”
The notice was sent to members of the program six days prior to the publication of a STAT investigation that found the company offers to pay thousands of dollars to customers and other parties to refer its AI products to new business prospects. STAT first asked about the referral arrangements in an email to Brian on June 5.
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DATE: August 13, 2026 at 08:29AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: An investigation into Commure, and Medicare’s new-tech incentives for AI devices
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Hello, health tech readers! Next week, the newsletter is going on its annual summer hiatus — we’ll see you back on the 25th.
Today, a deep dive into Commure, a company promising to automate the business of health care with artificial intelligence — and all the levers it’s pulling to make that happen. Let’s get right into it.
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DATE: August 13, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: What Medicare incentives for AI-based devices mean for tech companies — and hospitals
For hospitals, the promise of artificial intelligence is financial as much as clinical. A hospital might deploy an AI device because it promises to throw up an alert that could save a patient’s life — but the technology is far more likely to stick if it proves it can drive down costs.
Convincing hospitals and health systems that a new technology will provide that return on investment is tricky, though. So some AI startups have benefited from a temporary sweetener that helps customers get on board: Certain new technologies can apply to get add-on payments from Medicare for two or three years after they come to market. The tax-dollar-funded payments are meant as an incentive to help get new, expensive medical technologies to patients.
If a hospital thinks, “‘Oh, you’re not 100% sure you have the money, or you don’t necessarily believe 100% of the assumptions in the ROI,’ then you know what? You have this safety net, at least for the next few years,” said Tom Valent, chief business officer at Aidoc.
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DATE: August 13, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: What patients actually think about ‘minimally invasive’ brain implants
Scroll through the flashy websites of neurotechnology startups and a phrase repeats again and again: “minimally invasive.”
“The term is fuzzy, problematic,” said Anna Wexler, a medical ethics and health policy professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. “Is it physical invasiveness? We’re not sure, it’s a fraught term.”
The fuzziness hasn’t stopped most brain-computer interface startups from deploying it in a bid to differentiate their devices from others in development. Synchron, Motif Neuroscience, Precision Neuroscience, and Merge Labs all use it liberally. Journalists sometimes repeat the spin.
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DATE: August 13, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT MEDICAL DEVICESTITLE: STAT+: What Medicare incentives for AI-based devices mean for tech companies — and hospitals
For hospitals, the promise of artificial intelligence is financial as much as clinical. A hospital might deploy an AI device because it promises to throw up an alert that could save a patient’s life — but the technology is far more likely to stick if it proves it can drive down costs.
Convincing hospitals and health systems that a new technology will provide that return on investment is tricky, though. So some AI startups have benefited from a temporary sweetener that helps customers get on board: Certain new technologies can apply to get add-on payments from Medicare for two or three years after they come to market. The tax-dollar-funded payments are meant as an incentive to help get new, expensive medical technologies to patients.
If a hospital thinks, “‘Oh, you’re not 100% sure you have the money, or you don’t necessarily believe 100% of the assumptions in the ROI,’ then you know what? You have this safety net, at least for the next few years,” said Tom Valent, chief business officer at Aidoc.
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Why this American #doctor is leaving Utah to serve a remote community in B.C.
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Never make thy Physician thy heir.
[Non far ma medico tuo herede.]James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in Italian” (1659)
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