Mass General Brigham is partnering with IBM on the project, which feels particularly relevant this week as the Boston area and many other parts of the country swelter in a haze of humidity and high heat. A heat advisory in effect through Wednesday for thousands of New England residents warns it could feel as hot as 95-103 degrees. The basic idea is to intervene before extreme heat takes a severe toll on people's health.
The Trump administration on Wednesday said it has secured commitments from more than 60 health and information technology companies to participate in a plan to make Medicare patient data more accessible. Leaders from tech companies including Google, Amazon and OpenAI, along with providers and health systems including Cleveland Clinic and UnitedHealth Group, will meet with health officials at the White House later on Wednesday to 'begin laying the foundation for a next-generation digital health ecosystem,' CMS says.
Roughly 60 entities in the healthcare sector will pledge to making patient data more accessible and speeding its delivery among patients, clinicians and payers, according to an HHS employee granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive plans. The White House and CMS are expected to announce the commitments on Wednesday. The agency hopes the commitments will stoke companies to make it easier for patients to import their data into an app of their choice, where they can manage their day-to-day health and easily share their history with doctors.
In this AMA podcast, Veena Jones, MD, CMIO at Sutter Health, talks about how the California-based health system is turning clinical notes from the care team into patient-friendly summaries using AI.
Community Health Systems, Inc. is selling select ambulatory outreach laboratory services to Labcorp for $195 million in cash. The transaction involves Tennessee-based CHS's outreach laboratory assets across 13 states, including patient service centers and in-office phlebotomy locations. CHS will continue to operate its inpatient and emergency department laboratories, as well as provide laboratory services for hospital-based services such as imaging and pre-admission testing.
Clinicians and patients are using artificial intelligence more and more to help diagnose illness and injuries, but many in the healthcare industry see the technology's adoption as a double-edged sword. A new study of over 2,000 medical professionals found that the adoption of generative AI tools is becoming far more prevalent in healthcare, but that misinformation about conditions and diagnoses was also impacting patients.