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This week on Pulse: Hot Topics, Louise and George pay tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart and Captain Picard’s legacy for science. Then they dig into who gets to let AI into our medical records.
Best Practice vs Heidi: Best Practice tells customers that using Heidi’s new agent, Heidi II, with Bp Premier breaches its licence, while Heidi argues that clinicians should choose their own tools, and the American Medical Association offers a more useful starting point by asking what the AI should be authorised to do, what evidence shows it’s safe, and who is accountable when it goes wrong.
The AI-informed patient, from the other side of the desk: following the Australian Healthcare Index on the last show, new surveys from Healthed and Zanda show GPs and allied health practitioners seeing patients arrive armed with AI research, which brings better understanding but also anxiety, longer consults and pushback.
Google’s personal health agent: a Nature paper from Google Research describes a team of AI agents, a data scientist, a domain expert and a health coach, that reasons over wearable data and blood tests, a glimpse of a future where our most continuous health relationship may be with an AI.
Shout-out: SpermSearch.AI extends their global reach: Australian startup NeoGenix Biosciences’ AI tool for the hardest IVF sperm searches is now registered in the UK and heading to clinics in Great Britain (disclosure: NeoGenix is a Medical Angels portfolio company).
Resources:
- Patrick Stewart dies: how Captain Picard inspired today’s science leaders – Nature Link
- AMA governance framework for agentic AI Link
- Healthed GP poll on patients using AI Link
- Zanda: The State of AI Adoption in Allied Health 2026 – Pulse+IT Link
- Australian Healthcare Index, October 2026 –Link
- The anatomy of a personal health agent – Nature Link
- NeoGenix Biosciences – SpermSearch.AI Link
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