Tailored feedback to surgeons dramatically cuts excessive opioid prescriptions for common surgeries, aligning them with evidence-based guidelines without affecting patient pain control.
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.
UnitedHealth Group's investors have profited from its sky-high coverage denial rates. Now, as the company faces mounting public pressure to approve more patient care, they are suing to stop the insurer from changing its 'corporate practices.'
When Terry Phillips tried to get a parking ticket to get out of the UPMC Shadyside garage on April 17, she found herself having to open her door to get the ticket to exit. Her foot was on the brake of her car. It slipped and moved forward, crushing the 79-year-old, slowly killing her.
The CDC is reinstating more than 400 people who had received layoff notices, according to an email from CDC leadership to employees seen by POLITICO. The rehiring, announced internally Wednesday, marks the largest number of employees that the agency has asked back to date.