I interact with medical students and residents from different institutions. I have learned that the education that they receive about AI and its role in healthcare is highly variable.
The American Medical Association is…
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Mass General Brigham spins out AIwithCare, an AI-powered tool that matches patients to clinical trials.
In China, a health app from a financial technology company is answering 5 million questions daily. Ant Afu, whose…
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FDA updates its policy to accept de-identified real-world evidence to support drug and device application reviews. This change allows use of registries, insurance claims, and EHR data that were previously excluded because they…
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A friend reached out this weekend to ask my opinion about the risks of plugging medical information into ChatGPT and other publicly available AI tools. She wanted to know if I agree with a…
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A GAO report says that the VA must address several previously raised issues to support its accelerated Oracle Health rollout. Among them:
Produce an updated cost estimate and schedule.
Implement change management…
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files an antitrust and consumer protection petition alleging that Epic maintains monopoly power. It says that Epic controls more than 90% of US patient records, locks…
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The Association of American Medical Colleges has released new data showing that medical school enrollment has hit an all-time high. Total enrollment for 2025 is 100,723 students. It’s also the largest first-year class in…
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Microsoft Research releases GigaTIME, an open-source, multi-modal AI system that researchers used to convert pathology slides into virtual images, then analyze them against patient data from Providence. The resulting virtual population allows researchers to…
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Global investment firm EQT seeks $1 billion for its 40% stake in CitiusTech.
EQT sold its majority stake in AGS Health to Blackstone for a similar amount in August.
CitiusTech, a global healthcare…
Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with everything that is going on in healthcare IT. Regardless of how many unread newsletters and blog notifications are in my inbox, I know I can count on…
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