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Daily Update for September 18, 2026
Epic mortality score overstates death risk in outside test; California bill would bar AI-only therapy; Zocdoc opens booking to chatbots; court denies patients ambient AI audio
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Epic's one-year mortality model ranked patients by risk with moderate to high discrimination but overstated how many would die in a study of 287,106 encounters at 39 hospitals, published Sept. 11 in JAMA Network Open. The model, which Epic…
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