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In this week's episode of AI in Healthcare, your concise update for healthcare professionals on artificial intelligence in clinical medicine, we examine four developments from the week of April 20–27, 2026.

A New England Journal of Medicine Perspective on Utah's AI-assisted prescription-renewal sandbox pilot — a state-regulated program with pharmacist-mediated escalation, distinct from the FDA pathway for software as a medical device — and the corresponding American Hospital Association governance panel on April 20.

A multicenter Korean validation study in JMIR Medical Informatics introducing patient-wise recalibration to mitigate model drift in AI electrocardiography for left ventricular systolic dysfunction (reported AUC 0.956 internal, 0.940 external on follow-up pairs).

A randomized controlled trial in JMIR Mental Health in which both a structured generative AI therapy chatbot and plain GPT-4o produced significant PHQ-9 reductions versus control, with no significant difference between active arms (n = 147).

A methodological comparison in JMIR in which XGBoost (micro-F1 0.815) outperformed a LoRA-fine-tuned LLaMA-3 (0.780) on ASA Physical Status classification.

Evidence-based, reference-linked, ~5 minutes. For healthcare professionals only.

00:00 Weekly Headlines

00:31 Utah Prescribing Sandbox

02:09 Governance Takeaways

02:38 Drift Mitigation Study

04:06 GenAI Depression Trial

05:35 LLM vs XGBoost Methods

06:48 Wrap Up and References

REFERENCES

1. Utah Prescription-Renewal Pilot. NEJM Perspective, April 2026. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2601148
2. Utah Department of Commerce / Doctronic announcement, January 2026: commerce.utah.gov
3. AHA Panel — AI in Health Care: Navigating Policy, Regulation, and the Road Ahead. April 20, 2026: aha.org
4. Lee S, Son J-W, Kim S-A, et al. Deep Learning Model Using Transfer Learning for Detecting Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction. JMIR Med Inform. April 24, 2026. DOI: 10.2196/83127
5. Kuta B, Novak L, Zidkova R, et al. Effectiveness of a Fully Automated Mobile Therapeutic Versus a General Chatbot in Reducing Depression and Anxiety. JMIR Ment Health. April 22, 2026. DOI: 10.2196/82642
6. Chen M-C, Ruan S-J, Wu J-H, Chen P-F. Classifying ASA Physical Status With a Low-Rank-Adapted Large Language Model. J Med Internet Res. April 21, 2026. DOI: 10.2196/89540

 Disclaimer: For healthcare professionals only. Not medical advice. Opinions expressed do not represent any institution.

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