A former senior analyst at Outcome Health will avoid prison time after a federal judge sentenced her Tuesday to three years of probation and 200 hours of community service for her role in what prosecutors have called a $1 billion fraud scheme at the once successful Chicago company. Kathryn Choi is the fifth former Outcome employee or leader to be sentenced in recent months.
“Autonomous agents are one of the hottest topics and perhaps one of the most hyped topics in gen AI today,” Gartner distinguished VP analyst Arun Chandrasekaran said at the Gartner Symposium/Xpo this past week.
More than a year has passed since Dana-Farber Cancer Institute dumped Mass General Brigham for a rival hospital chain, but the state's biggest healthcare system is making a push now to say when it comes to cancer care, MGB's still got it. Dana-Farber's announcement of the divorce in September 2023 stunned executives at the Brigham and rocked the hyper-competitive hospital industry. But now MGB is fighting back by creating what it calls the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute, which the health system is trumpeting in an intensive marketing campaign.
At HLTH’s health care industry conference in Las Vegas, HHS officials said they’re developing a cross-agency strategic plan to regulate artificial intelligence in health care, aiming to balance its benefits and potential risks.
During the World Business Forum this week in New York City, McNeill presented insights into building innovative companies, a method Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls “the algorithm.” This approach, covered in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk, emphasizes radically simplifying both goals and processes.
Apple has been awarded the paltry sum of $250 in damages after a court in the US ruled that wearable tech rival Masimo infringed on two of its smartwatch design patents. However, Apple has failed in its grander bid to try and score a means to overturn the ban on its blood oxygen feature in the US.