Doximity and OpenEvidence settle dueling lawsuits over physician AI tools

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Doximity and OpenEvidence dismissed all claims in their federal lawsuit over physician AI tools, ending a case in which OpenEvidence accused Doximity staff of posing as physicians, Fierce Healthcare reported Oct. 19.

The claims and counterclaims were dismissed with prejudice, and each company bears its own costs and fees; the joint notice disclosed no other terms. Separately, Oxford researchers reported a labor-onset model that pairs clinical risk factors with computerized fetal heart tracing, and a BMJ review found that trials of large language model tools often leave out model versions, code and harms. The day brought few other developments.

In this episode

• Doximity and OpenEvidence dismiss all claims in lawsuit that accused Doximity staff of posing as physicians to probe its AI
• Model pairing clinical risk factors with 20 minutes of computerized fetal heart tracing sorts labor risk across 147,350 births, Lancet Digital Health study finds
• Trials of large language model tools often omit model versions, code and harms reporting, BMJ review of 461 trial records finds
• XRlabs raises $8.4 million for operating-room software that merges live surgical video, navigation and imaging; it has no FDA clearance
• Siemens Healthineers and Paradromics build an imaging workflow for implanting brain-computer interfaces, starting with speech

When a patient links a medical record to a chatbot, HIPAA stays behind. The protections should go with the record; until Congress acts, physicians should tell patients plainly what they give up.

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Medicare official says parts of AI prior-authorization pilot are not working

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A senior Medicare official said Oct. 15 that "there are a lot of things about WISeR that are not working," referring to the agency's pilot of artificial intelligence-supported prior authorization in six states, Nextgov/FCW reported.

Kimberly Brandt, a deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, made the remark at a conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where her slides said the technology requires continuous oversight and that human clinical review is essential. Elsewhere, the Food and Drug Administration cleared an automated insulin pump for adults with insulin-treated type 2 diabetes, and three health systems said they have ended or are ending hospital-at-home programs.

In this episode

• CMS deputy administrator says "a lot of things" about WISeR, Medicare's AI prior-authorization pilot, are not working
• Cone Health, Health First and Covenant Health end hospital-at-home programs although Medicare's waiver runs through 2030
• FDA clears Sequel's twiist automated insulin delivery system for adults with insulin-treated type 2 diabetes
• Digital GLP-1 program in UK reports 15.5% average weight loss and 91.4% retention among 8,127 women at six months, Nature Medicine study finds
• Otter Health raises $8 million for software that checks care decisions against evidence in place of prior authorization