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- Today5 min
Daily Briefing for November 7, 2026
U.S. measles cases pass 5,000, the most since 1991The voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop. Every fact in the post links to its source.Read the post and its sourcesGet the free email briefingThe United States has recorded 5,182 confirmed measles cases in 2026, the most since 1991, federal data released Friday showed, days before a regional review that could end the country's measles elimination status.The count is more than double the 2,289 cases of 2025, and children and teenagers make up about 59% of them, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures reported by Bloomberg and Al Jazeera. The Pan American Health Organization said in March that it would review U.S. elimination status at its November meeting; a country loses the status after 12 months of uninterrupted spread of one viral lineage.The Food and Drug Administration also opened an investigation of tumors in patients treated with the spinal muscular atrophy gene therapy Zolgensma, and HCA Healthcare said about 10,000 of its physicians will be documenting with ambient AI by year's end.In this episodeU.S. measles cases reach 5,182, the most since 1991, as elimination status goes up for review next weekFDA investigates tumors after Zolgensma gene therapy, with viral DNA found inserted near a cancer gene in two patientsHCA Healthcare puts ambient AI in the hands of 10,000 physicians by year's end and an AI nurse handoff tool in 100 hospitalsAn AI flag on positive ANA tests cut time to autoimmune diagnosis from 138 to 43 days in a Vanderbilt randomized trialMedicare cuts 340B drug payments to sales price minus 28% and pays office rates for hospital imaging off campus from 2027Ochsner plans primary care panels of 3,000 to 5,000 patients built around AI agents, pharmacists and ambient listeningStarting overactive bladder patients on beta-3 agonists instead of anticholinergics did not lower dementia risk in an 830,393-patient cohort
- Yesterday7 min
Special Topic: The doctor one screen away
In 2022 one emergency department in thirteen lacked an attending physician around the clock. Every rural one should have an emergency physician on video at all hours, paid for by Medicare rather than grants.Read the special topic and its sources: https://physicianintheloop.org/specials/rural-ed-tele-emergency/The voice on this episode is generated by AI. It reads a special topic from Physician in the Loop as written; every fact in it links to its source.
- Yesterday6 min
Friday Letter: Running up the tab
AI was sold to medicine as a way to save time and money. This week's evidence suggests it often spends both, and it should be paid for only when it saves them.Read the letter and its sources: https://physicianintheloop.org/letters/2026-11-02/The voice on this episode is generated by AI. It reads the week's Friday letter at Physician in the Loop as written; every fact in the letter links to its source.
- Yesterday5 min
Daily Briefing for November 6, 2026
Smartwatch AI spots more hypertension than an office cuff checkThe voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop. Every fact in the post links to its source.Read the post and its sourcesGet the free email briefingA Google artificial intelligence model reading consumer smartwatch sensors detected 65.8% of hypertension cases over seven days, versus 55.3% for an initial office blood pressure check, in a 196-person study published Thursday in Nature.Both approaches had 90.0% specificity against 24-hour ambulatory monitoring, and the watch model needed no cuff calibration, the authors reported. Separately, a JAMA study of 5.2 million newborns found that the share not given vitamin K at birth more than doubled from 2017 to 2025, Wisconsin reported its first measles death since 1990, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed dropping obstetric and emergency readiness training rules for hospitals.In AI evidence, a 400-person randomized trial in JAMA Network Open found a generative AI maternal health chatbot did not improve anxiety or depression at 12 months, and Mayo Clinic Platform opened a clinical AI chatbot covering more than 35 specialties to Mayo clinicians and outside organizations in its programs.In this episodeGoogle's smartwatch AI catches 65.8% of hypertension cases in a week, beating an initial office cuff reading at 55.3%Newborns who skip the vitamin K shot have more than twice the risk of intracranial bleeding, a 5.2 million-infant study findsAn infant dies of measles in Wisconsin, the state's first measles death since 1990, as cases reach 431A Washington dairy farmworker dies of bird flu, the first U.S. avian influenza death of 2026Medicare proposes scrapping hospital obstetric and emergency readiness training rules and asks about loosening CRNA supervisionA generative AI chatbot for pregnant and postpartum patients fails to improve anxiety or depression in a 400-person trialMayo Clinic opens an AI chatbot covering more than 35 specialties to its clinicians and partner organizationsFDA clears PulseAI's model that reads atrial fibrillation on smartwatch and other wearable ECGsElectronic record alerts fail to cut routine testing before cataract surgery in a UCLA randomized trial
- 2 days ago7 min
Special Topic: The wrong suspects
Measles cases this year are more than twice last year's. Texas is investigating the pediatricians who vaccinate children, and the children who depend on those doctors will pay.Read the special topic and its sources: https://physicianintheloop.org/specials/measles-and-the-investigations/The voice on this episode is generated by AI. It reads a special topic from Physician in the Loop as written; every fact in it links to its source.
- 2 days ago5 min
Daily Briefing for November 5, 2026
Medicare cuts physician pay 2.31% for 2027, deeper than it proposedThe voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop. Every fact in the post links to its source.Read the post and its sourcesGet the free email briefingThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services cut the physician fee schedule conversion factor 2.31% for 2027 on Wednesday, to $32.63, a deeper reduction than the 1.68% it proposed in July.Clinicians in qualifying alternative payment models take a 1.83% cut. Most of the decline reflects the expiration of a one-year 2.5% increase for 2026, partly offset by statutory updates of 0.25% and 0.75%, Medical Economics reported. The same rule pays 20% less for a visit billed the same day as a minor procedure, replaces the G2211 add-on with modifiers worth 16% or 32% of a visit, and tightens remote monitoring billing. A companion outpatient rule raises hospital rates 2.3% and creates Medicare's first payment category for AI and other software services."Physicians will once again begin the year with lower rates as practice costs continue to rise," the American Academy of Family Physicians said, according to Chief Healthcare Executive. CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz said fee-for-service payment "has rewarded volume over value."In this episodeMedicare cuts the physician conversion factor 2.31% for 2027 and pays 20% less for visits billed the same day as minor proceduresMedicare creates its first payment category for AI and other software services and moves 14 algorithm-only lab tests out of the lab fee scheduleMedicare limits remote monitoring to established patients and delays its ban on outside monitoring vendors to 2029Federal regulators push out two surprise-billing arbitrators, one of which sided with clinicians in 89% of 2023 casesA South Dakota health system blocks OpenEvidence after finding a physician storing more than 100 patient records in itPatients of athenahealth practices can now send their records into Claude, and the company says HIPAA does not applyPhilips sets aside $322 million to settle Justice Department criminal and civil probes of its 15 million-device CPAP recallPennsylvania confirms a sixth measles death as its outbreak reaches 1,467 cases and 283 hospitalizations
- 3 days ago6 min
Special Topic: The patient counts
Theranos is remembered for defrauding investors. For doctors the lesson is what happened to patients. Products that change care still reach them on their makers' word, before the evidence.Read the special topic and its sources: https://physicianintheloop.org/specials/theranos-lessons/The voice on this episode is generated by AI. It reads a special topic from Physician in the Loop as written; every fact in it links to its source.
- 3 days ago5 min
Daily Briefing for November 4, 2026
Asthma guideline ranks steroid rescue inhalers above albuterol aloneThe voices on this episode are generated, and so is the script, from the day's post at Physician in the Loop. Every fact in the post links to its source.Read the post and its sourcesGet the free email briefingThe American Thoracic Society on Nov. 3 strongly recommended steroid-containing rescue inhalers over short-acting beta-agonists alone for adolescents and adults with mild asthma, in a new guideline.The same day, the Food and Drug Administration warned that holes can form in some ButterflyBVM bag-valve-mask resuscitators and told users to remove the worst-affected lots. A National Institutes of Health cohort found that half of adults with long COVID at one year improved meaningfully by three years, and a Columbia study of nearly 1 million portal replies found that Epic's AI drafts did not shorten clinicians' overall response times.In this episodeThoracic society strongly recommends steroid-containing rescue inhalers over short-acting beta-agonists alone for mild asthmaFDA warns holes can form in ButterflyBVM bag-valve masks, letting breaths leak away from patientsHalf of adults with long COVID at 1 year improve meaningfully by 3 years, but only about a quarter fully recover, RECOVER findsColumbia clinicians answered portal messages 8.6% slower after Epic's AI draft replies arrived, a 983,154-message study findsHumana opens electronic prior authorization to more than 180,000 athenahealth clinicians nationwideA quarter of Kaiser emergency patients with six common conditions were treated at home, in clinics or in observation instead of a bedStents and bypass surgery show matching 10-year survival for left main disease in a 5,379-patient registry
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