An NIH analysis of 11 million days of Fitbit data from nearly 30,000 All of Us participants found that a year of step data predicts far more health outcomes than a single day's readout, including unexpected links to chronic pain and autoimmune disease.
Oura introduced a proprietary AI model built specifically for women's health questions inside its Oura Advisor assistant, reporting that users sent more than a million messages to the tool during testing — with 83% rating its answers reliable.
Nonprofit Every Cure uses AI to score thousands of existing drugs against tens of thousands of diseases, cutting a 100-day repurposing search to 17 hours, backed by $48.3 million in ARPA-H federal funding.
VitVio has opened its Vetro 3D computer-vision platform to hospitals nationwide, using ambient cameras and AI to track every movement in the operating room and pinpoint what's actually driving surgical delays and inefficiency.
Hexarad's AI workflow software OptiRad is now live across nine NHS sites in North East England and South Yorkshire, with one early-adopting trust reporting an 18% cut in scan turnaround times and £150,000 in annual savings.
Nvidia's GR00T-H surgical robotics AI model, trained on 778 hours of real operating room data across 35 organizations, is now commercially available, aiming to give device makers a shared foundation for semi-autonomous surgery.
As the FDA continues weighing national rules following a November 2025 advisory committee meeting, Illinois, Nevada and Utah have already enacted differing state laws on AI therapy chatbots in 2026, from outright bans to disclosure requirements, creating a fragmented compliance landscape.
HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud are piloting Nurse Handoff, a generative AI tool that standardizes shift-change patient handoffs at five hospitals, with nurses rating it accurate in over 85% of cases; the company plans to scale it to its 100,000-nurse workforce if results hold.
Sheba Medical Center has become the first hospital outside the U.S. to gain access to OpenAI's dedicated healthcare AI models, a deal signed in July 2026 that will bring ChatGPT Health to Israeli physicians for clinical decision support and documentation.
A Nature Medicine study led by researchers at Mount Sinai found ChatGPT Health under-triaged 52% of gold-standard emergency cases and showed inconsistent suicide-crisis safeguards, even as OpenAI expands the tool into major hospital systems.