Welcome to AI in Healthcare in 5 Stories. This podcast is a weekly briefing on the five most important AI developments shaping healthcare, medicine, and life sciences. Each week, Tom Fox breaks down the latest stories on clinical innovation, regulation, privacy, compliance, patient safety, and operational transformation through a practical, business-focused lens. Designed for healthcare compliance professionals, executives, legal teams, clinicians, and industry leaders, the podcast goes beyond headlines to explain what each development means in practice.
The top five stories for the week ending October 9, 2026, include:
- Constant vigilance for AI in healthcare. (MedCityNews)
- Hands-on training builds clinician confidence in AI. (HealthcareFinance)
- Pharma doubles down on AI. (ChiefHealthCareExecutive)
- Rethinking AI for pharma supply chains. (PharmExec)
- Can AI prescribe medicine? (The Dallas Express)
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.
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