Keeping up with Medical AI - Monthly Roundups by Iris
Medical AI news, once a month, in about five minutes: AI in medical imaging and radiology, clinical AI validation and trials, FDA and MHRA regulation of AI medical devices, AI pathology, large language models in medicine, and AI deployment in hospitals. Every story links to its sources.
Latest: September 2026
CMS repeals Breakthrough Device reimbursement shortcut
- CMS ended the automatic Breakthrough Device route to Medicare add-on payments, while Bayesian Health qualified through the standard clinical-improvement pathway:
- OpenAI connected ChatGPT for Healthcare to Epic data and nine public health sources, while a multi-country randomized trial tested LLM assistance with physicians:
- FDA defined a cardiovascular ML notification category and retained 510(k) oversight for radiology CAD, as CROWN supplied a dedicated cytopathology foundation model:
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