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Physician in the Loop

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How technological innovation is changing medicine for patients and the people who practice on the front lines.

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#52
Yesterday · 5 min
Daily Briefing for October 16, 2026
JAMA study counts 271 million clinician queries to OpenEvidence
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#51
Yesterday · 9 min
Special Topic: Notes before codes
Most studies find that AI scribes raise the bill. They should have to show what they do for patients, starting with the accuracy of their notes.
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#50
Yesterday · 7 min
Friday Letter: Absent friends
Doctors ask software how to treat their patients millions of times a month, yet its rules are being written with few of them in the room. They should claim their seats.
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#49
Thursday · 9 min
Special Topic: Nobody wins the bot war
Hospitals and insurers now fight over bills with software, and patients pay. Every algorithm that moves a payment should show a clinician its evidence and be judged by how often it is right.
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#48
Thursday · 4 min
Daily Briefing for October 15, 2026
Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT safety; medical board group drafts guidance on unsupervised AI; UnitedHealth says AI speeds appeals; AI reads cervical slides
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#47
Wednesday · 9 min
Special Topic: The surgeon is the benchmark
Surgical robots are inching toward choosing where to clip, cut or sew. Any robot that does should be judged against a good surgeon doing the standard operation, not against other robots.
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#46
Wednesday · 5 min
Daily Briefing for October 14, 2026
OpenEvidence joins Johns Hopkins on medical training; EHR vendors' AI disclosures fall short; Agilent buys Proscia; Suki raises $90 million
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#45
Tuesday · 9 min
Special Topic: Yes, doctor
Language models lean toward whatever the request or the chart suggests, so their agreement is weak evidence. Before they reach patients, the FDA should require tests against unsafe orders and loaded wording.
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#44
Tuesday · 5 min
Daily Briefing for October 13, 2026
Epic pediatric sepsis alert misses most cases; FDA warns of Lumify ultrasound failures; Stryker puts $400 million into CMR; Google adds AI health trends
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#43
Monday · 5 min
Daily Briefing for October 12, 2026
CMS chat room gave tech firms access to officials, report says; device makers seek wider RAPID path; FDA grants pacemaker identifier; GPT-5 misreads images
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#42
Sunday · 9 min
Special Topic: The patient's AI got there first
A chatbot's differential or a smartwatch alert belongs in the history, as a record of what worried the patient; physicians should treat it neither as a diagnosis nor as a threat.
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#41
Sunday · 4 min
Daily Briefing for October 11, 2026
Safety prompt cuts harmful AI choices in 19 of 20 models; Oracle breach tally nears 20 million; device coverage comments close Oct. 13; Mayo AI grades side effects
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#40
October 10 · 4 min
Daily Briefing for October 10, 2026
FDA clears Epic deterioration model; Bayer sells Blackford radiology AI; chest X-ray AI flags osteoporosis; Houston Methodist ties OR AI to more cases
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#39
October 10 · 10 min
Special Topic: AI for the 25-bed hospital
A small rural hospital should buy the few AI tools that fill a gap in its staffing or clearly pay their way, and leave alone whatever it has no one to check.
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#38
October 9 · 6 min
Friday Letter: Show your work
Software is gaining the power to prescribe, triage and code faster than anyone is checking its results. It should earn that power by publishing its errors.
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#37
October 9 · 8 min
Special Topic: When the agent is inside the chart
Software agents now read, draft and send from the medical record; medical staffs should give each one its own identity, limited privileges and an audit trail before it is switched on.
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#36
October 9 · 5 min
Daily Briefing for October 9, 2026
Google AI passes supervised clinic test in Lancet; Vanderbilt tallies chatbot psychosis; CMS proposes remote pathology review; UT System widens Abridge
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#35
October 8 · 9 min
Special Topic: Cleared is not the same as proven
An FDA clearance shows that software met a regulator's floor; physicians should ask for evidence that it works on patients like theirs before they trust it.
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#34
October 8 · 6 min
Daily Briefing for October 8, 2026
UK adopts all 44 health AI regulation proposals; Teladoc adds AI scribe for hospitals; AHRQ offers $7.95 million AI prize; Anthropic opens cyber models to hospitals
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#33
October 7 · 11 min
Special Topic: The first prescription without a doctor
Utah now lets software choose a patient's first prescription for acne; the terms for withdrawing the doctor's review will outlast the acne, and physicians should write them.
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