Welcome to AI in Healthcare in 5 Stories. This podcast is a Weekly Briefing of the five most important AI developments shaping healthcare, medicine, and life sciences. Each week Tom Fox breaks down the latest stories in clinical innovation, regulation, privacy, compliance, patient safety, and operational transformation, all through a practical and business-focused lens. Designed for healthcare compliance professionals, executives, legal teams, clinicians, and industry leaders, the podcast moves beyond headlines to explain what each development means in the real world. The top five stories for the week ending September 25, 2026 include:
- Data privacy issues holding patients back from AI. (HealthcareDive)
- How AI is changing nursing. (YaleNews)
- Pharma doubles down on AI. (Reuters)
- AI and medicine. (Barrons)
- Rural WVa hospitals to receive AI tech. (WVNews)
My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County Texas which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival and resilience. It is available on the following sites: