New center to be led by WashU Medicine’s Philip. R.O. Payne, Ph.D., who will serve as the inaugural chief health AI officer, and Deborah O’Dell, chief data & analytics officer at BJC Health System
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. John Wooden
Here they are: Human-centric by design. The development and use of AI technologies align with ethical and human-centric values.Risk-based approach. The development and use of AI technologies follow a risk-based approach with proportionate validation, risk mitigation, and oversight based on the context of use and determined model risk.Adherence to standards. AI technologies adhere to relevant…
Brian Thompson’s murder was chilling, but the social media response of this tragedy was equally shocking, if eye-opening. It shows a massive collapse of public trust in our healthcare system, a system so broken that it bankrupts families, denies life-saving care, and treats death as an acceptable cost of doing business. The post A Healthcare…
Likely ‘no‘. While CMS can consider drug prices as part of IRA’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation, it is limited to considering only U.S. market data. Here is an excerpt from the IRA text: For purposes of negotiating the maximum fair price of a selected drug under this part with the manufacturer of the drug, the…
Inside a cancer research laboratory on the campus of Harvard Medical School, two dozen small jars with pink plastic lids sat on a metal counter. Inside these humble-looking jars is the core of Joan Brugge’s current multiyear research project. Brugge lifted up one of the jars and gazed at it with reverence. Each jar holds…
Healthcare, like baseball, is ultimately a human experience. And no matter how advanced the tools, patients still want to feel something real: that someone sees them, hears them, and cares. The post Humans Make the Game: What Baseball’s Tech Debate Can Teach Healthcare About the Value of Connection appeared first on MedCity News.
This brief explains the preventive services coverage requirements, the basis of the Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra lawsuit, next steps in the litigation, and the potential implications.
The KFF-Washington Post partnership Survey of Parents explores experiences and views pertaining to childhood vaccines. The Survey of Parents also sheds light on school vaccination requirements, views on federal health agencies and policy changes, and the views of parents with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. This poll comes as the Trump administration revamps federal…
Today’s AI is not truly agentic because it’s not truly independent of you. The current crop of agents can’t set complex goals, or properly verify outputs. You have to spend a lot of effort on prompting, verifying, and system integrating. That just means the smarter you are, the smarter the AI is. It’s really amplified…