AI systems can summarize what’s happening with a patient, but if the system makes up or omits information it can lead to catastrophic consequences, says Harjinder Sandhu, CTO of health platforms and solutions at Microsoft.

Amazon-owned One Medical has confirmed that it is closing several of its offices in a move intended to cut costs, with offices in New York, New York, Minneapolis, Minnesota and St. Petersburg, Florida set to shutter their doors by the end of February.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through its Office for Civil Rights and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has finalized modifications to the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records regulations, which protect the privacy of patients’ SUD treatment records.

Rob MacNaughton has been named new chief executive officer of Calibrate, a clinician-guided, value-based obesity treatment program, and one of his first missions will be to solidify a relationship with Optum Rx as a strategic partner during the company’s enterprise-first growth phase.

Edifecs, founded in 1996, focuses on interoperability and automation in workflows. Over the last 20 years, the healthcare industry has seen 90 to 95% automation, saving avoidable costs of about $150 billion, according to CEO Venkat Kavarthapu. What’s next is the “second leap is automation” that will perhaps save tens of billions for the industry […]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to bolster oversight of Accrediting Organizations in the Medicare and Medicaid program. In recent years, CMS has identified several concerns related to Accrediting Organization performance. These include:

There’s a hesitancy of residency students to understand and validate how AI can be used in medical care, says Dr. Patrick Thomas, director of digital innovation in pediatric surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine.  

Vaccinations for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an upper respiratory virus that typically thrives in colder weather, may soon extend to adults in their 50s thanks to a priority review granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Rising Medicare Advantage utilization among older U.S. adults, as well as rate cuts for 2025, are likely to be credit-neutral to the healthcare industry, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings.

Tom Lawry’s HIMSS24 sessions will focus on the realities of AI: stemming nurse burnout by ending their role as data entry clerks, and nursing informatics, says the managing director at Second Century Tech.