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Today’s health & science items · June 16, 2026

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June 16 · Health AI operations

Sanofi says its health AI work is moving from experimentation to scaled deployment.

Sanofi's VivaTech update frames AI as part of drug discovery, development, patient support, and operations, a useful signal that health AI governance is becoming an operating issue.

Sanofi

June 2026 · Health AI policy

Mount Sinai researchers created an index of the healthcare AI policy landscape.

The project tracks governance activity so health systems can understand policy obligations as AI moves into clinical and administrative settings.

Mount Sinai

June 2026 · Clinical AI infrastructure

Columbia researchers released an open-source framework for reproducible health AI.

EurekAlert reports the MEDS framework is meant to help institutions build transparent, reproducible clinical machine-learning datasets as models move closer to care settings.

EurekAlert / Columbia Engineering

June 2 · Health policy evidence

WHO warned that AI can strengthen or weaken evidence-informed health policy.

WHO's discussion paper maps AI's role across problem definition, solution design, implementation, monitoring, and governance.

World Health Organization