Show Notes
This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George explore the rapid emergence of AI health assistants from Big Tech, unpack the growing role of consumer wearables as research-grade medical tools, examine how AI scribes are evolving into multimodal and physical devices, and zoom out to a groundbreaking scientific achievement—simulating a living cell.
AI health assistants from Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Perplexity signal a shift from standalone tools to a persistent, orchestrating layer across patient data, raising urgent questions about trust, ownership and the future role of the health system. A new partnership between Verily and Samsung could turn consumer smartwatches into research-grade data sources, unlocking new possibilities for decentralised trials, digital biomarkers and real-world evidence at scale. AI scribes are evolving beyond software, with vision-enabled systems dramatically improving accuracy and new purpose-built hardware like Heidi Remote signalling a move toward AI as embedded clinical infrastructure.
And in a remarkable scientific breakthrough, researchers have simulated an entire living cell at the molecular level—opening the door to a future of in silico experimentation and personalised medicine at unprecedented depth.
Resources: AI Scribe gets eyes npj Digital Medicine Link Cell Simulation Link EOI for the Chatbot User Guide for Patients Link
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