Hadas Bitran

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later. nbcnews.com/health/cancer/…

The smartest thing I heard today: Innovation often happens when people from different fields come together and look at problems in new ways.

7 ways AI is advancing healthcare around the world: how our customers are using our products to improve access to care and provide better outcomes for patients. news.microsoft.com/source/feature…

@sama Wow. This is terrible.

I wrote this early this morning and I wasn't sure if I would actually publish it, but here it is: blog.samaltman.com/2279512

@Berci No audio book version?

Every medical specialty will transform differently due to the technological revolution. In certain fields, such as nursing, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, innovation will have much less impact than on dentistry, cardiology or pathology.  In this e-book, we specify in detail how the appearance of artificial intelligence, sensors, wearables, VR/AR or robots affect each medical specialty in order to be able to discern what skills physicians will need in the future. Grab your copy on Leanpub: leanpub.com/future-of-medi…

@rohanpaul_ai Rx refill / prescription renewal is not a new scenario. Nothing new here.

This is just great. 👏👏 We just crossed a line in medicine. San Francisco startup Legion Health now is allowed to use an AI chatbot to renew certain psychiatric prescriptions without a doctor signing off on every case. The permission is much narrower than it sounds, because it covers only 15 lower-risk maintenance drugs and blocks new prescriptions, dose changes, controlled substances, benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, and lithium. The system is also fenced in around stable patients, and it must kick cases to humans for suicidality, mania, severe side effects, pregnancy, or any patient who asks for a person. So the experiment is not “AI writes whatever it wants with no humans involved,” and it is also not “doctors do everything and AI is just decoration.” It is a guardrailed handoff where the AI does the first-pass refill decision for a narrow set of stable psychiatric patients, and humans monitor it closely at first, then less often if it performs well. Legion Health’s system is not being asked to diagnose a crisis or invent a treatment plan from scratch. Reports say it can renew a narrow set of existing prescriptions, only for patients already stabilized by a human psychiatrist, with pharmacists and regulators still in the loop. Even so, psychiatry is unusually hard to automate because the decisive information is often not just what a patient says. --- nationaltoday .com/us/ca/san-francisco/news/2026/04/06/ai-psychiatry-startup-approved-to-prescribe-meds/

Looking at the bigger picture, this research shows that Ambient AI Scribes are starting to make a difference in healthcare. Remember: change takes time.

@HealthcareAIGuy @JAMANetwork The actual research results show meaningful improvements in the bigger picture. The online vibe that downplays the value of those tools demonstrates the internet's short attention span very vividly. Change takes time.

NEW: A JAMA study of 263 providers across six health systems found that using ambient AI scribes reduced burnout from 51.9% to 38.8% in just 30 days, while also improving after-hours workload, task load, and patient focus.

The Pitt on HBO Max gets something right about AI in healthcare: AI can impact patient safety. New post on my personal blog, about AI hallucinations, hospital TV dramas, and things we hear from clinicians. Link in first reply. @HBO #healthtech

Just looked myself up in the USPTO database for the first time. 50 entries. All in health tech, AI, privacy, security, safety. It was never the goal. Just a side effect of building things. And my personal rule is to ONLY put my name on things I actually contributed to - so those are real. Good reminder that a lot of innovation happens quietly.

When doctors in Manchester used Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot to do their paperwork, they didn’t just save time, they spent that time with patients to provide better care. aka.ms/AAyqj1j

Wolters Kluwer integrates UpToDate Clinical Decision Support into Microsoft Dragon Copilot to provide doctors with real-time, evidence-based medical intelligence. healthtechinsiders.com/microsoft-and-…

Truly excited about this partnership with @wkhealth . Integrating UpToDate into Microsoft Dragon Copilot brings trusted content - in context - into the clinical workflow.

Clinical workflow, now with your org context: with Dragon Copilot, clinicians will be able to get relevant info from Microsoft 365 within their clinical workflow. Proud moment for our team! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/healthcar…

We are expanding our knowledge sources with best‑in‑class trusted medical content providers and enabling Microsoft 365 Copilot integration in Dragon Copilot. Huge moment of pride for our team. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/healthcar…

@AIJobclock Very much agree, we see this every day with our customers.

@hadasbitran Reasonable take. The key is speed of adaptation: people and teams that learn AI workflows early usually absorb change better.

Reinforcing our focus on a unified AI clinical assistant that brings intelligence, trusted content, work context, and partner innovation into daily clinical workflows with this new release of Microsoft Dragon Copilot. microsoft.com/en-us/industry…