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AI in health & biotech news and analysis
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EFF Deeplinks · Sep 9, 2026, 11:13 AM EDT
New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization Experiment
EFF says records it forced CMS to release show Medicare's AI prior-authorization experiment delaying and denying care for seniors in six states.
medRxiv — Health Informatics · Aug 31, 2026, 12:21 PM EDT
A Pragmatic Randomized Trial of an EHR-Integrated Generative AI Chart Summarization Tool for Ambulatory Clinicians
The first randomized trial of an EHR-embedded AI chart summarizer found modest workload relief but no time savings and rapidly fading clinician engagement.
r/MachineLearning · Aug 9, 2026, 4:06 AM EDT
Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models [R]
AI models have now written entire virus genomes that actually work, showing generative models can design functional biological systems at whole-genome scale.
Ground Truths (Eric Topol) · Aug 4, 2026, 12:44 PM EDT
Predicting Your Health Arc
A new AI model predicts individual disease risk far more accurately than standard clinical calculators, potentially enabling earlier, personalized interventions.
Owl Posting · Jul 31, 2026, 1:14 PM EDT
Why haven't organoids solved all of drug discovery?
Recognizing the physical and reproducibility limits of organoids prevents AI drug discovery models from being trained on or evaluated against fundamentally flawed biological data.
bioRxiv — Bioinformatics · Jul 31, 2026, 1:06 PM EDT
PG-LLM: Benchmarking General-Purpose Language Models for Protein Variant Ranking
Frontier LLMs can now rank protein variants with substantial accuracy using test-time compute, but specialist models remain necessary for high-stakes biomolecular design until the gap closes.