https://cliniciansthatcode.com/briefing/ One email a week. Five minutes. What happened at the crossroads of medicine, code and regulation; no vendor marketing, no filler. en-GB Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://cliniciansthatcode.com/briefing/issue-3/ https://cliniciansthatcode.com/briefing/issue-3/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT This week: the FDA asks how to examine a generative AI device, a nephrologist turns the week's papers into a podcast, and pharmacists and nurses fill the shipping log. Top signal: The FDA opens the file on generative AI devices. A discussion paper from the FDA's Digital Health Center of Excellence (18 August) sets out how generative-AI-enabled medical devices might be regulated: risk assessment on two axes, premarket evaluation, postmarket monitoring, and considerations for foundation models and agentic systems. The idea to watch is a competency assessment "inspired at a high level by how physicians are trained and evaluated": non-clinical benchmarking of clinical knowledge, analytical ability, safety behaviour and communication, then clinical confirmation with real patients and clinicians. Clinicians are explicitly invited to comment; docket FDA-2026-N-7874 is open until 19 October. 16 signals, 4 min read. https://cliniciansthatcode.com/briefing/issue-2/ https://cliniciansthatcode.com/briefing/issue-2/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT This week: the AI testing gap gets measured, clinician ships from emergency simulation to insulin titration, and six new names in the directory. Top signal: Health systems are deploying AI faster than they can test it. A new UPMC Center for Connected Medicine and KLAS Research report finds 93% of health systems run third-party AI and 92% say they test tools before deployment, yet only 44% have a dedicated data platform or environment to actually do that testing in. The gap between claiming to test and being equipped to test is where clinician-builders earn their keep; the same week, Doximity placed over 150 physicians inside clinical AI product teams as its 2026-2027 Clinical AI Fellows. 28 signals, 4 min read. https://cliniciansthatcode.com/briefing/issue-1/ https://cliniciansthatcode.com/briefing/issue-1/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT This week: the UK regulator opens a sandbox, hackathon momentum keeps building, and eight clinician-shipped builds (three of them by nurses). Top signal: The MHRA opens a regulatory sandbox for AI medical devices. The UK regulator is convening AI device makers, NHS organisations and regulatory experts to explore safe real-world deployment, and clinician-builders are eligible to apply as manufacturers. Read it as a sign of where things are heading: even the regulator now builds safe places to experiment. Expressions of interest are open. 22 signals, 3 min read.