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A prospective study published in The Lancet on October 8, 2026, tested AMIE, Google’s conversational diagnostic system, with 98 primary care patients at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: no conversation had to be stopped, and physicians said the summary helped them prepare for the visit in 33 of 44 cases.
Nolla Health launched a pilot in Utah in which its Nolla Derm app uses AI to issue initial prescriptions for topical treatments for mild-to-moderate acne in adults, with physician oversight that is reduced in stages and a cost of $4.99 per month.
OpenAI is rolling out Health in ChatGPT to logged-in U.S. users age 18+ on web and iOS across Free, Go, Plus and Pro, with optional links to supported medical records and Apple Health. The company stresses it does not replace professional care.
NV-Reason-CT (arxiv 2609.27511) pairs a Primus/COLIPRI-style 3D encoder with Qwen3.5-4B and GRPO RL; reports ~0.614 macro-F1 and ~0.871 AUROC on CT-RATE, plus a preliminary ~50% interpretation-time cut claim.
China’s NMPA issued YY/T 2029—2026 on quality and evaluation of EEG datasets used by AI algorithms in brain-computer interfaces; it takes effect 1 September 2027 and sets annotation, storage and access requirements.
Verily announces investment from NVIDIA and the CU Healthcare Innovation Fund to accelerate its precision-health AI platform (Pulse 2.0), joining silicon, clinical data and healthcare innovation capital.
On September 15, 2026, the OpenAI Foundation announced Public Data for Health / Data for Public Health, with $40 million to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to generate multimodal data that could improve personalized cancer vaccines, plus support for OpenAdmet. MIT Technology Review and UNC itself detailed the bet: higher-quality biological observations so models can advance medicine.
The Environmental Protection Network on September 10, 2026 released “The Hidden Health Costs of AI Data Centers”: it estimates ≥30 federal actions since January 2025 weakening pollution safeguards; >90% of estimated health impacts would come from power plants supplying data centers; it calls for a Data Center Health Protection Pledge. Asthma and premature-death figures in coverage are report estimates, not Neural Pulse’s own measurements.
On September 8, 2026 DeepMind launched AlphaGenome Atlas: ~9 billion SNV predictions, an AVI score, a ~1 PB-scale dataset, and academic access with GREGoR and UK Biobank collaborators.
LatAm startups attract record investment with clinical AI adapted to local data.