AMA Calls for Risk-Based GenAI Oversight to Protect Patients and Support Responsible Innovation
As generative AI moves toward performing increasingly consequential clinical functions, the American Medical Association (AMA)…
AMA Calls for Risk-Based GenAI Oversight to Protect Patients and Support Responsible Innovation
As generative AI moves toward performing increasingly consequential clinical functions, the American Medical Association (AMA) is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to address a foundational question: Who is responsible for ensuring that these tools remain safe once they enter clinical practice? The post AMA Calls for Risk-Based GenAI Oversight to Protect Patients and…
Integris Health to Become Third Health System to Join Kaiser-Backed Risant Health
Integris, Oklahoma’s largest nonprofit health system, will join Geisinger and Cone Health in Risant’s system
CKD Study to Move Upstream by Embedding Pharmacists in Primary Care
Katherine Tuttle, M.D., executive director for research at Providence Inland Northwest Health, says new therapies provide opportunities for earlier interventions with high-risk patients
Midterm Election Update: Medicaid Changes
Major federal changes to Medicaid eligibility and financing from the 2025 reconciliation law are coming, including new work requirements that will affect millions of Medicaid enrollees. KFF’s fact sheet provides an overview of what has changed, what is still ahead, and what the public thinks about Medicaid heading into the midterms.
Your Product Works — So Why Does It Still Fail in the Real World?
A patient’s automated risk score was reassuringly green. Pulling from a sparse medical record and infrequent acute visits, the model flagged him as low risk and routed him to the default, low-touch outpatient pathway — so why was the patient actively deteriorating? The post Your Product Works — So Why Does It Still Fail in…
UnitedHealth Leaders Say Costs ‘Remain Stubbornly High’
While again pointing to pressures from the No Surprises Act arbitration process, the industry giant’s executives also say that care intensity trends are “bending in a more stable direction.”
A Closer Look at State Directed Payments for Nursing Home Services
Building on previous analysis of state directed payments (SDPs), this issue brief takes a closer look at SDPs for nursing home services.
New Arrivals in the ER? Georgia Gears Up To Solve Rural Maternal Health Crisis
LAVONIA, Ga. — It had been a decade since Kara Holden last had a baby. But as the former obstetric nurse prepared for her fourth child, her head was swimming with contingency plans. The labor and delivery unit where she used to work in this rural northeastern Georgia community is no longer open. So, she…
States Are Forcing Hospitals To Offer More People Financial Aid. In Oregon, It’s Working.
Four years ago, Oregon hospitals were under fire from state authorities and patient advocates. Hospitals, critics said, had made it too hard for patients to apply for and receive help paying their bills. Within months, the state enacted a sweeping law that required hospitals to proactively screen patients and give financial aid to those who…
Medicine Gave Itself a Code for Diabetes Remission. A Year Later, the Payment System Still Can’t See It.
By HANA KAHLEOVA “Will this only get worse?” Patients with type 2 diabetes have asked me some version of that question for my entire career. For most of it, the honest answer was “probably.” We treated diabetes as a one-way street: glucose climbs, medications pile up, complications follow. Good care slowed the slope. It didn’t…
