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October 2026
- General Medicine raises $120 million led by a16z, with Lilly and Mercy Health investingThe San Francisco healthcare store, which shows insurance and cash prices upfront, has now raised $152 million and plans to add more categories of care.Markets
- Utah approves AI pilot to issue initial acne prescriptions with staged physician reviewNolla Health, August AI and Expect Fitness join the state's AI sandbox, which needs written approval before any pilot reduces human oversight.Policy
- FDA puts final AI device lifecycle guidance at top of its 2027 prioritiesThe agency also plans to draft evidence recommendations for generative AI conversational devices for mental disorders, and takes comments until Nov. 30.Healthcare
September 2026
- UCSF model predicts Alzheimer's from health records up to seven years aheadRandom forest models trained on 749 patients with Alzheimer's and 250,545 controls reached an AUROC of 0.72 seven years before onset and 0.81 one day before.Healthcare
- Abbott completes $21 billion purchase of Exact SciencesExact Sciences shareholders received $105 a share. Abbott expects the cancer-screening business to dilute 2026 earnings by $0.20 while lifting growth.Markets
- EAGLE AI model detects oesophageal cancer on routine chest CT with 90.0% sensitivityValidated on 80,612 patients at 12 centres in three countries, the model also flagged 52.5% of precancerous lesions at 98.5% specificity.Healthcare
- AMA adds 10 AI codes to CPT 2027 set, taking AI-related CPT codes to 43The CPT Editorial Panel also revised its Appendix S taxonomy of assistive, augmentative and autonomous AI in May 2026, ahead of the 1 January 2027 effective date.Policy
August 2026
- Sepsis AI linked to 18.7% lower mortality wins FDA clearance and Medicare add-on paymentCMS will pay hospitals up to $61.84 per case from 1 October 2026 for the Johns Hopkins-developed TREWS system, four years after its Nature Medicine evidence.Healthcare
- MHRA rules AI scribes that only transcribe or summarise are not medical devicesThe 29 July 2026 guidance, written with NHS England, keeps tools that suggest diagnoses or place orders without clinician review inside device law.Policy