From Documentation to Communication: Rethinking Language in Clinical Notes

• by Brianna A. Green, Felisha Gonzalez, Joann G. Elmore

• June 29, 2026

Can AI Extract Echo Report Data as Accurately as Expert Annotation?

In a study of 50 echocardiography reports, GPT-5 mini extracted 55 cardiovascular fields from free-text echocardiography reports with 92.5% exact-match agreement with expert annotation.

• by Kerri Miller

• June 28, 2026

• 5 min

GLP-1 Drugs Tied to Smell, Taste Changes

A matched electronic health record study of more than 876,000 patients with type 2 diabetes found a low absolute incidence but higher relative hazard of documented smell and taste disturbances among patients prescribed glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists.

• by Andrea Surnit

• June 27, 2026

• 5 min

Treatment characteristics and safety profiles of Belbuca®, buprenorphine patch, and oral schedule II opioids among chronic low back pain patients without a positive history of opioid-use disorder: a retrospective US commercial claims analysis

• by Vladimir Zah, Dimitrije Grbic, Filip Stanicic

• June 30, 2026