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Posted: 07 june 2025

Exclusive look at Nourish's new suite of AI tools for patients and providers

Nourish, a virtual nutrition counseling startup, is doubling down on tech with several new artificial intelligence features for patients and providers. Nourish’s goal, according to co-founder and CEO Aidan Dewar, is to “make care smarter, more human … and more engaging…

Clinicians can ‘chat’ with medical records through new AI software, ChatEHR

ChatEHR, artificial intelligence software developed at Stanford Medicine, is expediting chart reviews and other tasks by allowing clinicians to ask questions of medical records. Read more here.

A neuroscientist explains why it’s impossible for AI to ‘understand’ language

As meaning-makers, we use spoken or signed language to understand our experiences in the world around us. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT (using large language models) call into question the very notion of how to define “meaning.” Read more here.

Gut bacteria may hold key to unlocking better cancer treatment

Scientists have discovered a range of biomarkers that could help to improve detection and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases (GIDs) such as gastric cancer (GC), colorectal cancer (CRC), and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Read more here.

Barts Health takes ‘giant step’ for medical research with Sectra

Barts Health NHS Trust, which serves one of the largest and most diverse patient populations in the country, has become the first healthcare provider in the NHS to implement Anonymise and Export from medical imaging IT company Sectra. Read more here.

AI Improves Cancer Screening Follow-Up

Griffin Health, a 160-bed acute care hospital in Derby, Connecticut, has made significant strides in enhancing follow-up care for patients flagged through imaging studies. By embedding an artificial intelligence platform into existing care navigation workflows, Griffin Health has achieved substantial…

Continual Learning in Robotics: The Role of Feedback Data Loops

What if your robots could learn from every mistake and every mile, crop, or surgery? That’s the power behind continual learning in robotics. See how it works, and how feedback loops + HITL make it possible. Read more in the…

Ancient DNA sheds light on evolution of relapsing fever bacteria

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained and lost genes…

Microsoft unveils AI agent orchestrator for cancer care coordination

Microsoft announced that its agent orchestrator for cancer care management is now available in the Azure AI Foundry Agent Catalog. Azure's AI Foundry platform allows developers to design, manage, customize and support enterprise-ready AI agents and apps. Read more here.

New Innovaccer platform seeks to scale AI adoption, speed transition to VBC

Innovaccer, a healthcare unicorn that achieved Series F funding earlier this year, says it's focused on enabling healthcare organizations, typically slow to fully harness data resources because of antiquated, siloed systems to deploy analytics rapidly. Read more here.

Integrated EHR and ePRO platforms can streamline workflows and reduce friction

EHRs are digital systems used by healthcare providers to store and manage patient information, including demographics, clinical notes, lab results, and treatment histories. Over the past few years, they have been used extensively in research and to generate large databases…

Only 4% of women comfortable with AI serving as sole reader of mammograms

Researchers with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas recently aimed to explore consumer sentiments around such software, surveying 518 women. While most opposed the idea of solo interpretation, about 71% of said they’d be OK with AI…

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