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Giving healthcare teams powerful AI tools without training undermines their ability to use potentially system-changing tools safely and effectively. The post AI Can’t Improve Healthcare if Clinicians and Staff Aren’t Trained to Use, Orchestrate It appeared first on MedCity News.
Health policy has never looked so flirtatious. Every year, our readers send us valentines that make us swoon, laugh, and occasionally clutch our insurance cards. And in 2026, you did not hold back. You wrote about overcharging, rising insurance, AI in health care, and more. Here are some of our favorites, starting with the poem that stole…
The Trump administration has unveiled a sweeping set of regulatory proposals that would substantially change health plan offerings on the Affordable Care Act marketplace next year, aiming, it says, to provide more choice and lower premiums. But it also proposes sharply raising some annual out-of-pocket costs — to more than $27,600 for one type of…
One year after taking charge of the nation’s health department, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hasn’t held true to many of the promises he made while appealing to U.S. senators concerned about the longtime anti-vaccine activist’s plans for the nation’s care. Kennedy squeaked through a narrow Senate vote to be confirmed…
CELO COMMUNITY, N.C. — On a 15-degree morning in January, a clinic in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina began to fill up with patients. An older couple in flannel pajamas sat together in the waiting room. A toddler waved as Patricia Hall walked past him, a stethoscope draped over her neck. The family physician…
By MIKE MAGEE Last month, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, did it again – scaring the bejesus out of societal leaders worldwide with warnings that their grip on security and governance of human populations is dangerously close to AI extinction. Amodei’s opening paragraph in his article titled “The Adolescence of Technology” wastes no time getting the reader’s…
Mayo Clinic has about 100 petabytes of structured and unstructured EHR data, and about 28 petabytes have been de-identified, but in the Mayo Clinic way. Now that data capability is being combined with institutional expertise to provide a compelling case for pharma companies looking to leverage data, AI and provider expertise in drug development The…
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Rush University Medical Center’s Sam Davis Jr. says deploying LeanTAAS solution has fostered a data-driven culture