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The Index

What the evidence says.What the public feels.

Ranks distinct AI gain and problem claims from the published record. Scores reward impact, independent source strength, scale, confidence, and recency.

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AI gains · 788

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GainSports· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

An AI decision support system using ID3 entropy and enhanced Monte Carlo tree search delivered real-time basketball strategy evaluation in about 3.13 seconds with 74% win rate and 84% decision rationality.

Researchers built a real-time strategic decision support system for sports that combines an ID3 decision tree using entropy change with an enhanced Monte Carlo tree search that picks the maximum UCT node. Tested in basketball contexts, the system averaged about 3.13 seconds per decision and was reported to reach 74% win rate and 84% decision rationality.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 17, 2026 · TRV-2026-0237

73
GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

In a real-world care facility test by April 2026, the ZigBee-based AI telehealth framework monitoring elderly and chronically ill patients achieved 95% accuracy with 100% recall for health discrepancy detection while operating at 120 ms transmission delay and 3.8 mW/h power consumption.

Researchers built and tested a ZigBee-based wireless system that connects wearable sensors for heart rate, temperature and oxygen to cloud AI models including random forest, SVM and logistic regression. By April 2026, tests in a care facility reported 95% accuracy, 100% recall, 120 ms delay and 3.8 mW/h power use.

Impact 30%69
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%88

Updated Jul 13, 2026 · TRV-2026-0143

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GainHealth· Stable· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Emergency departments (EDs) worldwide face increasing pressure to optimize triage processes amidst rising patient volumes and resource constraints. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a potential solution to enhance triage accuracy and efficiency, yet its real-world clinical impact remains inadequately characterized. We conducted a systematic review following Preferred Reporting Items f...

Emergency departments (EDs) worldwide face increasing pressure to optimize triage processes amidst rising patient volumes and resource constraints. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a potential solution to enhance triage accuracy and efficiency, yet its real-world clinical impact remains inadequately characterized.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%85
Confidence 15%59
Recency 10%87

Updated Jul 11, 2026 · TRV-2026-0018

AI problems · 631

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ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Participants identified trust as the central barrier to using an AI companion, driven by privacy concerns and vulnerabilities specific to schizophrenia.

Researchers conducted exploratory focus groups at a large academic health center in New York City with 17 patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, 7 caregivers, and 4 providers to discuss a hypothetical AI companion tool. Thematic analysis identified five themes about accessibility, uncertainty about role, trust, supplementing human care, and limiting use to low-risk support.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Sep 10, 2026 · TRV-2026-1046

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ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Students with medium and low baseline history-taking proficiency showed relatively limited score improvements from LLM-VSP self-practice, with practice frequency alone not independently predicting final performance.

In a 2026 prospective cohort study, 168 third-year medical students were grouped by voluntary use of an LLM-powered virtual standardized patient system for extracurricular history-taking practice versus routine instruction alone. After propensity score matching to 40 pairs, the LLM-VSP group scored higher on an end-of-term Objective Structured Clinical Examination with real standardized patients.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Sep 10, 2026 · TRV-2026-1044

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ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Most hand surgery AI tools are deployed in unaudited workflows and rarely remeasured after release after testing only on training-like data, leaving the hand surgeon accountable for patient outcomes shaped by opaque models.

On September 9, 2026, a peer-reviewed article in The Journal of Hand Surgery described how neural networks, machine learning models, and large language models are entering hand surgery for radiograph reading, outcome prediction, and chart drafting, while noting that adoption has outpaced validation and proposing a four-part stewardship framework for surgeons.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Sep 10, 2026 · TRV-2026-1043

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ProblemHealth· Newly added· Evidence: Moderate (1 source)

Pediatric medical imaging is substantially underrepresented in AI development and validation, with scarce datasets and off-label use of adult models risking bias and patient safety.

On 2026-09-09, an AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review assessed the state of artificial intelligence in pediatric radiology, finding that while AI has transformed general radiology, pediatric imaging remains substantially underrepresented in development, validation, regulation, and implementation.

Impact 30%49
Evidence 25%95
Scale 20%35
Confidence 15%87
Recency 10%99

Updated Sep 10, 2026 · TRV-2026-1042

Recomputed live from the record · Sep 15, 2026, 8:35 PM