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The focus will be on ensuring rural communities have access to primary care, emergency services and specialty care.
CHAI has formed five working groups for best practices to build out an assurance standards guide. Later this fall it will announce a model card to align health systems, payers and IT companies, says Dr. Brian Anderson, cofounder and CEO.
The rise in chronic disease among the elderly is driving up healthcare costs, putting pressure on Medicare and other payer systems.
Insurance companies and PBMs set the price of drugs paid at the pharmacy counter, says CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen.
The question becomes not whether AI can predict disease, but what physicians should tell patients, ethically, such as their chances of getting cancer, says Dr. Lukasz Kowalczyk, a physician at Colorado-based Peak Gastroenterology Associates.
The two organizations are also growing their healthcare services to support Florida's veterans and service members.
There's a hesitancy to trust generative AI, but, at the same time, clinicians don't want to miss a diagnosis, says Dr. Antoine Keller, cardiothoracic surgeon at Ochsner Lafayette Hospital.
Fifteen patients at Steward hospitals have died due to a lack of medical equipment or staffing shortages, says Chairman Bernie Sanders.
The awards, HRSA says, will expand the number of nurses and primary care physicians while increasing behavioral health support.
Confusion around CMS' final rules has been a challenge, yet the industry continues to advance seamless data exchange.