The initiative, housed within AHA’s Health Research and Educational Trust, will provide participating hospitals access to implementation support for the use of the West Health Accelerator, a digital hub of proven solutions, and peer learning networks designed to move technologies from pilot to systemwide adoption.
The new project...Arizona News
Late last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that is intended to intervene against state-level regulations of artificial intelligence.
The executive order directs U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to establish an "AI Litigation Task Force," which would challenge state AI laws that are "inconsistent" with the...
A new report by HealthEdge, a healthcare technology company, looks at the biggest challenges for health payers and the strategies that plans are using to address them.
The report, The Great Rebalancing: Inside the New Realities Shaping Health Plan Performance reviews survey responses from health insurance leaders and identifies rising...
On Monday, the American Medical Association announced a new Center for Digital Health and AI in a push for standards governing the use of AI in healthcare.
The AMA, which refers to AI as "augmented intelligence," said that the center intends to tap the "full potential" of new technologies throughout the lifecycle of technological...Arizona News
Arizona lawmakers are considering bills that would affect the healthcare of nearly every Arizonan, on topics ranging from abortion, to Medicaid work requirements, to AI use in healthcare.
Last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban the use of AI algorithms in the determination of medical claims by 58-0. ...
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and other tech innovations continue to find applications throughout the medical industry, including in Arizona.
As more AI applications enter the biomedical industry, the Food and Drug Administration has investigated how it should go about regulating the programs, platforms and devices that use...
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like machine learning algorithms, artificial neural networks, and generative AI hold immense potential in the future of healthcare for tasks from diagnosis, treatment, and resource management to customized personal health coaching. It may even play a role in the training of the next generation of...
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) advancing protections against discrimination in healthcare.
The updated rule does not force medical...
Regarding inpatient admissions, algorithms or artificial intelligence alone cannot be used by Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers as the basis to deny admission or downgrade to an observation stay; a patient’s circumstances must be considered against the permissible applicable Medicare coverage criteria under which MA operates.
The...
As the use of artificial or augmented intelligence (AI) becomes more widespread across healthcare, industry leaders are advocating for guardrails and guidance to alleviate the risks that come with the software.
On Tuesday, the American Medical Association (AMA) released new "principles for augmented intelligence," which expounds on...
On Monday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order (EO) to establish a set of standards for the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare settings.
The order asks the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a task force that will be given a year to develop guardrail policies for the use of AI and...
Generative AI is at the top of healthtech's concerns these days as businesses are rapidly increasing the integration of the tech tools across the industry, but the question of boundaries and limitations remains up for discussion.
Each week, companies are announcing new uses for generative AI within platforms and at every level of...
Connie Health, a tech-enabled consumer Medicare navigation platform that assists people in making informed health and financial choices announced a $13 million Series A round and that it will begin operations in its second state; Texas.
The Series A comes just four months after the company began serving the public in Arizona and...National News
Google’s ‘Medical Brain’ team is using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict when a patient will die according to over 150,000 key data points and an extensive history of health records. Bloomberg speculates these machines could open the gates for the internet to enter the healthcare market.
The search engine has approximately...
