When The Permanente Medical Group rolled out ambient augmented intelligence (AI)—also known as artificial intelligence—scribes in late 2023, it was with an eye toward solving one of medicine's most entrenched problems: documentation burden. One year and more than 2.5 million patient encounters later, the results are in, and they paint a compelling picture of how AI can help restore the human side of medicine.
Hospitals across Ohio could soon face a choice: Let federal immigration agents inside to arrest patients or lose access to state funding. That’s the ultimatum behind House Bill 281, a bill from state Rep. Josh Williams, a Toledo-area Republican.
HB 281 would require any hospital receiving state grant money or Medicaid reimbursements to:
* Allow ICE to enter to arrest, interview or collect evidence in service of a warrant.
* Arrest individuals with a lawful warrant.
* Require hospital staff and contractors help facilitate access for these activities.
* Provide ICE agents with information and/or evidence the hospital possesses so long as it doesn’t violate existing federal or state law.
Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday approved a measure that targets out-of-state doctors and activists who prescribe, sell, or provide pregnancy-ending drugs to residents in the reliably red state where abortions are banned with few exceptions. Louisiana law already allows women to sue doctors who perform abortions on them in the state. The bill expands who can be sued. It includes those out of the state, who may be responsible for an illegal abortion whether that be mailing, prescribing or 'coordinating the sale of' pregnancy-ending pills to someone in Louisiana.
U.S. Representatives Terri Sewell of Alabama and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania have introduced the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025, a bipartisan effort aimed at tackling the nation's doctor shortage by expanding Medicare-supported medical residency positions by 14,000 over the next seven years.
The AMA plans to ask a U.S. Senate committee to investigate HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to overhaul a key vaccine advisory group, the medical association said in an emergency resolution passed Tuesday. The House of Delegates of the AMA adopted the emergency resolution at its annual meeting in Chicago. The adoption came just one day after Kennedy announced that he had removed all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices.