This weekly update brings exciting news about AI agents transforming healthcare around the world. AI agents are smart computer programs that can help doctors and patients in many different ways.

The biggest news comes from NextGen Healthcare, which launched a new AI agent called NextGen Navigator. This smart assistant can talk to patients in both English and Spanish. It helps with booking doctor visits, getting medicine refills, and answering questions about medical practices. The AI agent saves hospital staff about 2-3 hours every day by handling routine questions.

In California, Valley Children's Hospital is using AI tools to take better care of over 1.3 million children. They use AI helpers that write medical notes automatically and help doctors find rare diseases faster. The hospital also uses AI to look at genetic information to pick the best medicines for each child.

Researchers at Stanford University in the United States created something called MedAgentBench. This is like a test for AI agents to see how well they can help in real hospitals. They tested different AI models like GPT-4o and Claude to see which ones work best with patient records and medical tasks.

Meanwhile, Salt AI got $10 million in funding to build better AI tools for drug discovery and healthcare. Their platform helps scientists and doctors use AI more easily with simple drag-and-drop tools.

Scientists also created Delphi-2M, a powerful AI model that can predict what diseases a person might get in the future. This AI looks at more than 1,000 different health conditions and can help doctors plan better care to prevent illnesses before they happen.