Ono Pharmaceutical Partners With Aitia to Hunt Neurological Drug Targets Using Causal AI ‘Digital Twins’
Ono Pharmaceutical has partnered with Aitia to use causal AI 'digital twins' to identify new drug targets for hard-to-treat neurological diseases, joining a wave of 2026 pharma-AI deals betting that modeling cause and effect — not just correlation — can finally move the needle on brain disease drug discovery.
Oura’s New AI Model Aims to Answer the Women’s Health Questions Doctors Don’t Have Time For
Oura has built a proprietary AI model dedicated to women's health that blends clinician-vetted research with a user's own biometric data, aiming to give more trustworthy answers on cycles, pregnancy and menopause than generic search results.
Mount Sinai Wires an AI Medical Search Engine Directly Into Its Hospital Records System
Mount Sinai has embedded OpenEvidence's AI clinical decision support tool directly into its Epic health record, letting physicians, nurses and pharmacists across seven hospitals query peer-reviewed medical evidence in natural language without leaving the patient chart.
AI Is Rewiring Outpatient Surgery: Cleveland Clinic Expands Enterprise-Wide Deployment as Investment Surges
A new market report details how Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic have expanded AI enterprise-wide across outpatient surgery — from predictive risk models to post-discharge monitoring — as investors pour hundreds of millions into surgical AI startups.
AI Pathology Hits the Clinical Standard: PathAI Raises $165M as Labcorp Expands AI-Read Diagnostics
A new market analysis shows AI-assisted pathology moving from pilot projects to routine clinical use, spotlighting PathAI's $165 million funding round and its expanded Labcorp partnership — even as independent clinical-outcome trials won't report results until 2029.
AI Stroke Alerts Cut Regional Hospital’s Patient Transfer Time Nearly in Half, New Data Shows
New data presented at the 2026 International Stroke Conference shows a regional California hospital cut stroke-transfer times by 44% using Viz.ai's AI detection platform, beating national benchmarks for getting patients to lifesaving thrombectomy care.
IHH Healthcare Says AI Now Saves 800,000 Staff Hours a Year Across Its Asia-Pacific Hospital Network
IHH Healthcare, which operates 89 hospitals across 10 Asia-Pacific countries, reported in early September 2026 that AI tools for rostering, billing and documentation are saving roughly 800,000 staff hours a year network-wide.
Leica Biosystems Wins FDA Clearance for Industry-First AI Quality Control Tool in Digital Pathology
Leica Biosystems announced August 11, 2026 it won FDA clearance for what it calls the first standalone AI-assisted quality control tool for digital pathology slide scanning, aimed at catching scanning defects before they corrupt downstream AI diagnostics.
WHO Europe Forum Warns Health AI Progress Should Be Judged by Governance, Not Just Adoption Speed
A WHO Europe forum on September 1, 2026 argued that health AI progress should be judged by the strength of governance frameworks rather than deployment speed, building on a 2025 dialogue that surveyed experts from 105 countries.