Researchers at Aalto University in Finland simulate how a single zombie becomes a nationwide apocalypse, says mathematician Pauliina Ilmonen.  

Although the overall implementation of Generative AI in healthcare remains limited, a gradual increase in adoption rates, primarily among larger entities, is starting to take hold, according to a KLAS survey 66 of healthcare executives.   While just a quarter of respondents said they have already incorporated genAI solutions, about six in 10 (58%) expressed […]

AHIP has appointed MIke Tuffin its next president and CEO. Tuffin will officially take the helm of the healthcare payer trade organization effective January 8. He succeeds AHIP CEO Matt Eyles, who decided to step down this year.  Julie Simon Miller, AHIP’s general counsel, has served as interim CEO since September.

Cigna and Humana have reportedly ended their talks to merge after failing to agree on a price, according to Reuters.

Patient advocacy groups have sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services criticizing UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage marketing, asking the agency to investigate potentially misleading advertising tactics.

The White House has signaled its intent to address the potentially negative and problematic aspects of corporate ownership in healthcare, with a focus on drug pricing, transparency and anticompetitive behavior.

Benefits for patients include faster access, no delay in finding an available mental health provider and better coverage options, says Dr. Nele Jessel, chief medical officer of athenahealth.  

Physicians preferred the answers to medical questions provided by Google’s Med-PaLM to those written by other physicians, says Dr. Michael Howell, the company’s chief clinical officer. He discussed the experimentation with and evolution of the medically tuned LLM.  

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached a settlement with Lafourche Medical Group, a Louisiana medical group specializing in emergency medicine, occupational medicine and laboratory testing. The settlement resolves an investigation following a phishing attack that affected the electronic protected health information of about 34,862 people.

A bill introduced in the House would avert a pending 3.37% physician pay cut to Medicare payments, according to the American Medical Association.