For one ICU physician and startup CMO, the more immediate danger isn’t an autonomous system taking over medicine and leaving human decision-making behind. It’s healthcare organizations harnessing AI primarily to increase efficiency while leaving healthcare providers even more mired in complexity and regulation. The post AI’s Healthcare ‘Doomsday’? It May Be Less About Autonomy Than…
Health care employment continues to grow even as hiring across other sectors has plateaued. The health sector added nearly 379,000 jobs over the past year, a 2% increase, compared with just 0.2% growth in other non-farm employment, with outpatient care among the fastest-growing health care settings.
Written appeals that used to take up to two hours now take about 33 minutes, says Utah-based health system’s Beau Bailey, M.D.
AI could play a meaningful role in advancing social care. Not by replacing people, but by helping them and organizations doing this work move faster, see patterns earlier, and coordinate more effectively. The post AI Won’t Fix Social Care, But Could It Help Us Finally Make It Work? appeared first on MedCity News.
This brief examines the legal status of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, attempts to regulate them, and future efforts to expand their footprints as they gain more recognition and funding from local, state, and federal programs.
About half of rural voters identify with Make America Healthy Again, a sprawling political movement championed by the Trump administration, but most said President Donald Trump’s healthcare policies have not benefited their communities, according to a new poll from The Associated Press in partnership with KFF. About 8 in 10 rural voters — an important…
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants with legal status are at risk of losing government health coverage starting Oct. 1, state data shows, signaling that the impact of Medicaid changes in President Donald Trump’s signature legislation from 2025 may be greater than anticipated. Many lawfully present immigrants will be among the first people to lose Medicaid…
In December 2024, Marjorie Tingley’s adult sons received an urgent email from the dementia care unit at Vista Grande Villa, a Michigan senior living community. They were told that their 85-year-old mother was a major safety threat. On at least 10 days the previous month, Tingley had hit, kicked, or elbowed aides when they were…
NEW RICHLAND, Minn. — Floodwater seeped through the nursing home’s front door just before sunrise. Inside the New Richland Care Center, staff members rushed to move 36 residents out of the building on Sept. 19 while they still could. They pushed elderly residents in wheelchairs through 4-inch-deep water to buses waiting in the parking lot,…
By TOMMY BEVERIDGE Thought experiment. What if the United States had a vast network of primary care-oriented non-profit health clinics? Imagine if there were, say, 17,000 locations in the most needed corners of our country? What if these clinics had to see everyone, had to offer a sliding fee scale for their services, and be…