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Daily Update for September 22, 2026
AI flags esophageal cancer on plain CT; Rush hands chart abstraction to a vendor; AI firms sponsor MAHA Summit; Newsom vetoes prior authorization bill
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A Chinese research group reported Tuesday in Nature Medicine that a model reading the esophagus on noncontrast CT outperformed all 17 radiologists in a reader study and was validated on 80,612 patients. The model flags esophageal cancer and high-grade precancer on…
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