Allison Okamura, a science fellow from Hoover’s Technology Policy Accelerator, is working on a new generation of robots that can help care for people in their homes as they get older. She answers seven questions about what life with ‘soft robots’ could look like.
Are you starting an initiative or reevaluating an older project with fresh eyes? Are you starting a new job and looking to impress your team? Or maybe, though hopefully not, you’re in the middle of a crisis you must resolve? Whether you need to make the most of an opportunity or improve a tricky situation, your fundamental goal can be boiled down to a simple question: How can I find success?
Kaiser Permanente says it will build a seven-story 615,000-square-foot hospital tower at its Sunnyside Medical Center campus in Clackamas, OR, with an opening date scheduled in 2029. Construction will begin in early 2026, with site-clearance work starting in late 2025. The current hospital building will remain in use until the new hospital tower is built and open on the east side of the Sunnyside Medical Center campus.
The changes to medical records hit federal systems first. In February, CMS removed sexual orientation and gender identity questions from enrollment forms for Medicare beneficiaries, and the U.S. DOGE Service said it had removed gender identity from the personal information pages of VA patients. Now, the Trump administration's efforts to strip these demographics from patient forms have reached the private sector.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s move to gut and reorganize HHS shocked many people tasked with making it happen, and left others fearful that everything from the safety of the nation's drug supply to disease response could be at risk. The disaster preparedness agency in HSS has just two days to prepare a plan to fold itself into the CDC, according to an HHS official, granted anonymity for fear of retribution.