https://techanatomy.co/news.htmlAnalysis on AI and health technology for health and pharma leaders.enSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://techanatomy.co/a/ai-adoption-last-mile-hospitals.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/ai-adoption-last-mile-hospitals.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisCommercial AI tools for radiology have existed for years, yet a 2020 survey found only about 30% of responding radiologists using AI in practice. Jan Beger, Global Head of AI Advocacy at GE HealthCare, points to strategy and AI literacy rather than technology, and to a set of figures that are widely repeated in the case for AI.https://techanatomy.co/a/ai-agents-explained-healthcare.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/ai-agents-explained-healthcare.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisAn AI agent is a language model that can plan and act, not only answer. When Tech Anatomy explained the idea in January 2025, the first agents were research previews; by 2026 they were built into mainstream products, including offers aimed at healthcare, while the evidence on what they deliver in practice remains thin.https://techanatomy.co/a/ai-in-health-recurring-barriers-data-access.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/ai-in-health-recurring-barriers-data-access.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisAfter eight editions of the AI for Health summit in Paris, its director Sébastien Marguerès says the same subject comes back every year: access to health data, followed by data volume and hospital infrastructure. The European and French responses are real, and most of them have not yet taken full effect.https://techanatomy.co/a/cercle-p-patient-testimony-to-policy.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/cercle-p-patient-testimony-to-policy.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisPfizer France created the Cercle P in 2016 to think about the place of patients in tomorrow's medicine. Ianis Ménot, who runs it, describes its method and two proposals that later appeared in French regulation, which raises the question of how to judge the influence of such a group.https://techanatomy.co/a/chain-of-thought-reasoning-llms.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/chain-of-thought-reasoning-llms.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisIn 2022 Google researchers showed that asking a large language model to write out intermediate steps roughly tripled its score on school maths problems. The idea now underpins the "reasoning" models used in medicine, and later research has complicated the hope that the written steps reveal how the model actually reached its answer.https://techanatomy.co/a/digital-health-interventions-25-years.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/digital-health-interventions-25-years.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisA 2025 review in the Journal of Medical Internet Research catalogued the techniques used in 885 randomised trials of digital health interventions published since 1999. It shows what designers have relied on, and where the research has concentrated, more than what works.https://techanatomy.co/a/digital-twins-health-avatar.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/digital-twins-health-avatar.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisThe idea of a personal health avatar fed by wearables and medical records has circulated since the metaverse boom of the early 2020s. The digital twins that have reached clinical research are narrower, built around one organ and one decision, and the question of who controls the data behind them is still open.https://techanatomy.co/a/from-wearable-signal-to-ai-model.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/from-wearable-signal-to-ai-model.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisBetween the green light on the back of a watch and an alert on a phone, a heart rate measurement goes through several transformations, some on the device and some on remote servers. Following one data point along that path shows where the processing happens, what kinds of models are involved and which protections apply.https://techanatomy.co/a/health-digital-twin-prevention-integratome.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/health-digital-twin-prevention-integratome.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisIntegratome, a French start-up, maps a person's questionnaire and lab results onto a probabilistic model of around sixty chronic conditions and projects their risks five years ahead. Its CEO Ghislain de Kerviler describes it as augmented medicine for doctors, not a medical device, a position that European rules on prediction software make worth examining.https://techanatomy.co/a/hidden-bias-healthcare-ai.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/hidden-bias-healthcare-ai.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisA 2025 review in npj Digital Medicine traces how bias gets into medical AI, from the data a model learns from to the way clinicians use its output. The best-documented cases show that the problem often lies in what a model is asked to predict, not in the algorithm itself.https://techanatomy.co/a/history-of-ai-in-medicine.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/history-of-ai-in-medicine.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisMedical AI did not start with ChatGPT. Rule-based systems were diagnosing infections and internal diseases in the 1970s, and several matched specialists in evaluations without ever entering routine care. Each wave since has faced a version of the same gap between performance in a test and use in a clinic.https://techanatomy.co/a/machine-learning-five-steps-in-healthcare.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/machine-learning-five-steps-in-healthcare.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisMost clinical machine learning follows the same sequence: collect labelled data, clean it, choose a model, train it, test it. Three classic hospital tasks show how the sequence works, and the published record shows which step tends to decide whether a model helps.https://techanatomy.co/a/medgpt-guideline-based-medical-assistant.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/medgpt-guideline-based-medical-assistant.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisSynapse Medicine launched MedGPT, a conversational assistant for French health professionals, in September 2025. Its co-founder Louis Létinier explains how it is built, why it answers from national guidelines first, and how the company intends to fund it.https://techanatomy.co/a/patients-in-health-ai-cercle-p-proposals.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/patients-in-health-ai-cercle-p-proposals.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisIn a small survey run by the Cercle P, seven in ten patients said they had never used AI in their care, yet most wanted to be told whenever it is used. Three members of the group explain the nine proposals that followed, on information, participation and public policy.https://techanatomy.co/a/quantum-computing-medicine-explained.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/quantum-computing-medicine-explained.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisQuantum computers work on qubits rather than bits, and their most credible medical use is the simulation of molecules. The hardware has improved quickly since 2024, but no medical problem has yet been solved on one that a conventional computer could not handle.https://techanatomy.co/a/synthetic-health-data-uses-and-limits.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/synthetic-health-data-uses-and-limits.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisSynthetic data is artificial patient data generated by algorithms to mimic the patterns of real records. It is already used to share data, enrich rare cases and design trials, while researchers still debate how much privacy it actually protects.https://techanatomy.co/a/why-health-data-goes-unused.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/why-health-data-goes-unused.htmlSun, 08 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisElectronic health records hold notes, prescriptions, results and images, yet little of it is analysed beyond the consultation that produced it. Privacy law, fragmented systems and unclear incentives all play a part, and synthetic data and digital twins are two of the responses now being tested.https://techanatomy.co/a/ai-drug-discovery-history.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/ai-drug-discovery-history.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisChemists began predicting what a molecule would do before making it with an equation on paper in 1964. The first candidates designed with AI have now been through human trials, and the question has shifted to whether they succeed more often than other drugs.https://techanatomy.co/a/ai-evidence-dilemma-health-policy.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/ai-evidence-dilemma-health-policy.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisA UN scientific panel warns that the evidence needed to govern AI arrives after the decisions have to be made. Andrei Baciu, a cardiovascular surgeon in the Romanian Parliament, describes how health systems and lawmakers might act in the meantime.https://techanatomy.co/a/ai-in-cardiology-ecg-evidence.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/ai-in-cardiology-ecg-evidence.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisAlgorithms trained on standard ECGs can flag a weak heart pump or a likely history of atrial fibrillation that a cardiologist cannot see on the tracing. Electrophysiologist Benedict Glover, who has also built an AI tool of his own, explains where this helps in practice and why the outcome data are still missing.https://techanatomy.co/a/ai-medical-imaging-story.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/ai-medical-imaging-story.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisIn 2016 Geoffrey Hinton predicted that deep learning would outperform radiologists within five years. The FDA has since authorised more than 1,600 AI-enabled devices, most of them in imaging, and radiology departments are still hiring. What happened in between says a lot about the distance between a benchmark and a clinic.https://techanatomy.co/a/alphafold-protein-structure-story.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/alphafold-protein-structure-story.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisIn 2020 a DeepMind system predicted protein shapes with accuracy close to laboratory methods, and in 2024 its designers shared a Nobel Prize. The prediction problem is largely answered. What it changes for medicine is a separate question.https://techanatomy.co/a/argus-ii-bionic-eye-orphan-implants.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/argus-ii-bionic-eye-orphan-implants.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisThe Argus II was the first retinal implant approved in the United States, and more than 350 blind people received it. When Second Sight stopped making it, the device stayed in their eyes while the support around it disappeared.https://techanatomy.co/a/bioprinting-organovo-and-vascularisation.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/bioprinting-organovo-and-vascularisation.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisBioprinted human liver tissue has been sold for drug testing since 2014, yet no printed vital organ has been transplanted into a patient. Most of the distance comes down to one biological problem: supplying blood to the inside of thick tissue.https://techanatomy.co/a/consumer-dna-tests-23andme.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/consumer-dna-tests-23andme.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000Analysis23andMe turned genetic testing into a consumer product, won FDA authorisations, lost data from 6.9 million people and went through bankruptcy. The story raises two separate questions: what these tests can actually tell a customer, and who should hold the data they produce.https://techanatomy.co/a/desci-decentralized-science-funding.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/desci-decentralized-science-funding.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisSince 2021, communities organised on blockchains have pooled money to fund early research in longevity and women's health, and a Pfizer fund joined one of them. The amounts remain small next to public funders, and the decisive test, a therapy that reaches patients, is still years away.https://techanatomy.co/a/digital-endpoints-clinical-trials-validation.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/digital-endpoints-clinical-trials-validation.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisIn 2023, the European Medicines Agency accepted a wearable-derived measure as a primary endpoint for Duchenne muscular dystrophy trials, about fourteen years after work on it began. Sumu Sethi, senior director for digital health at GSK, describes the validation path and the questions sponsors ask before adding a sensor to a trial.https://techanatomy.co/a/digital-medical-devices-after-ce-marking.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/digital-medical-devices-after-ce-marking.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisIn a three-part Tech Anatomy series, Snitem president Laurence Comte-Arassus and Tilak Healthcare chief executive Édouard Gasser describe the distance between regulatory approval and real use of a digital medical device. Tilak's own path, from Article 51 to a negative HAS opinion and then early coverage under PECAN, runs through the whole conversation.https://techanatomy.co/a/digital-therapeutics-pear-and-reimbursement.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/digital-therapeutics-pear-and-reimbursement.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisPear Therapeutics obtained three FDA authorisations for prescription software and filed for bankruptcy sixteen months after going public. The story separates two questions that are often merged: whether software can treat a disease, and who pays for it.https://techanatomy.co/a/european-health-data-space-hal-wolf.htmlhttps://techanatomy.co/a/european-health-data-space-hal-wolf.htmlSat, 07 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000AnalysisThe regulation creating the European Health Data Space entered into force in March 2025, and its first obligations for patients and researchers apply from March 2029. Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS, explains why he sees its main task as keeping national health data silos from closing again.