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AI flags infection risk seconds after surgery
University of Bern A wound gets sutured. The surgery is over. But the riskiest hours haven't started yet. In Bern, researchers developed an AI model named CARESCORE that analyzes vital signs collected during surgery, including blood pressure, heart rate, and oxygen saturation. Within seconds of the last stitch, it calculates a patient's infection risk. Trained on over 10,000 surgeries. More accurate than models that only look at pre-op data. It won't replace a surgeon's judgm
2 days ago
AI compresses trauma calls by 80%
Paramedics call ahead during trauma transport. That call is often the only information the hospital gets. More than 98% of the words in these calls are nonmedical. The rest gets lost in noise, static, and time pressure. A new study tested an AI model on pediatric trauma calls. It stripped the noise and compressed each transcript by 80%. Accuracy matched trauma staff. Here's the real finding. When trauma staff were exposed to the AI's read after making an incorrect triage deci
2 days ago
AI triages breast cancer
Source: Noah Berger Women with abnormal mammograms often wait weeks to find out if they have cancer. UCSF used an AI model called Mirai, trained on hundreds of thousands of mammograms, to identify the 12.7% of patients most likely to have cancer. Those patients went from screening to evaluation to biopsy in a single day. Wait time for a diagnostic evaluation dropped from several weeks to about an hour. The wait time for a biopsy dropped from two months to under 10 days. The A
2 days ago
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AI flags infection risk seconds after surgery
University of Bern A wound gets sutured. The surgery is over. But the riskiest hours haven't started yet. In Bern, researchers developed an AI model named CARESCORE that analyzes vital signs collected during surgery, including blood pressure, heart rate, and oxygen saturation. Within seconds of the last stitch, it calculates a patient's infection risk. Trained on over 10,000 surgeries. More accurate than models that only look at pre-op data. It won't replace a surgeon's judgm
2 days ago1 min read
AI compresses trauma calls by 80%
Paramedics call ahead during trauma transport. That call is often the only information the hospital gets. More than 98% of the words in these calls are nonmedical. The rest gets lost in noise, static, and time pressure. A new study tested an AI model on pediatric trauma calls. It stripped the noise and compressed each transcript by 80%. Accuracy matched trauma staff. Here's the real finding. When trauma staff were exposed to the AI's read after making an incorrect triage deci
2 days ago1 min read
AI triages breast cancer
Source: Noah Berger Women with abnormal mammograms often wait weeks to find out if they have cancer. UCSF used an AI model called Mirai, trained on hundreds of thousands of mammograms, to identify the 12.7% of patients most likely to have cancer. Those patients went from screening to evaluation to biopsy in a single day. Wait time for a diagnostic evaluation dropped from several weeks to about an hour. The wait time for a biopsy dropped from two months to under 10 days. The A
2 days ago1 min read
NVIDIA brings physical AI into the OR
Source: NVIDIA For years, AI in surgery lived on screens. It read scans. It predicted outcomes. Now it steps into the room. NVIDIA just released open physical AI models built specifically for healthcare robotics. Open H is the largest surgical robotics dataset ever assembled, with over 700 hours of real surgical video. Cosmos H generates synthetic surgical scenes to train robots faster. GR00T H turns spoken clinical commands into robot motion. CMR Surgical, Johnson & Johnson
2 days ago1 min read
Humanoid robots just entered the operating room
Source: University of California, San Diego Two teleoperated humanoid robots have completed live surgery for the first time. Researchers at UC San Diego reported the milestone in Nature on July 8, 2026. In one procedure, a humanoid assisted a surgeon during gallbladder removal. In another, two humanoid robots operated together in the field with no human hands. The breakthrough is not that a robot performed surgery. Surgical robots have been in operating rooms for more than tw
Jul 101 min read
Adoption before approval
Illustration by Alicia Tatone. Source: Getty. 80% of physicians are already using AI at work. Most of the generative AI tools they use have not been approved by the FDA. A Science study found ChatGPT more accurate at diagnosis than hundreds of practicing doctors. Even the Harvard physician who led the research expressed concern about what the results might mean. Medicine likes to think it moves at the speed of evidence. In reality, it often moves at the speed of utility. AI i
Jul 71 min read
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