Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital, which has served the Manhattan community for 135 years, permanently closed its doors at 8 a.m. Wednesday. For the past two years, community advocates have been fighting to keep the hospital open. But on Tuesday, a New York appeals court ruled in favor of the health system, putting an end to the legal saga. Mount Sinai said it was pleased with the ruling, adding that it would move forward with its closure plan immediately.
Transcarent first announced the acquisition in January, and the company said it has received all necessary shareholder and regulatory approvals to carry out the transaction. Accolade shareholders received $7.03 per share in cash, and its common stock will no longer trade on the Nasdaq, according to a release.
"MCP is an open protocol that enables seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools," reads Anthropic’s official description. That clinical description hardly captures what's happening here. Imagine if, before the internet, each computer could only access information stored directly on its hard drive. That's essentially how most AI systems work today – constrained by the data they were trained on, unable to reach beyond those boundaries unless specifically instructed through custom code.
Health systems can reduce suicides through patient screening, safety planning and mental health counseling, a new study suggests, an important finding as the U.S. confronts it 11th leading cause of death. The 'Zero Suicide Model' was developed in 2001 at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health, where the focus on people considering suicide included collaborating with patients to reduce their access to lethal means such as firearms and then following up with treatment.
A community review board unanimously voted to disapprove the transaction. The board doesn't have decision-making authority, but the vote could be a stumbling block.
New research suggests that given the right kind of training, AI bots can deliver mental health therapy with as much efficacy as — or more than — human clinicians.