News 3/28/25
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HHS will eliminate 10,000 full-time positions and close half of its regional offices, with past and planned cuts expected to reduce its FTE count from 82,000 to 62,000.
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HHS to reduce workforce by 20K jobs in major agency-wide restructure
The Department of Health and Human Services announced a dramatic agency transformation on Thursday, that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said will streamline operations by consolidating 28 divisions into 15 and reducing regional…
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Large language model agents can use tools to perform clinical calculations
Large language models (LLMs) can answer expert-level questions in medicine but are prone to hallucinations and arithmetic errors. Early evidence suggests LLMs cannot reliably perform clinical calculations, limiting their potential integration into clinical workflows….
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Bluebird Kids Health Raises $31.5M for Its Value-Based Pediatric Care Clinics in Underserved Areas
Nearly half of all children in the U.S. are covered by Medicaid, but many of their families struggle to find pediatricians who will accept their insurance — creating concerning pediatric care deserts in low-income…
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Developing a named entity framework for thyroid cancer staging and risk level classification using large language models
We developed a named entity (NE) framework for information extraction from semi-structured clinical notes retrieved from The Cancer Genome Atlas—Thyroid Cancer (TCGA-THCA) database and examined Large Language Models (LLMs) strategies to classify the 8th…
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Healthcare Groups Oppose HIPAA Security Changes-2025
INDUSTRY LEADERS CHALLENGE $9 BILLION REGULATION
Eight major healthcare industry associations have jointly petitioned President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to withdraw proposed HIPAA Security Rule updates introduced during the final…
Remote monitoring is essential for healthcare digital transformation, however, this poses greater burdens on healthcare providers to review and respond as the data collected expands. This study developed a multimodal neural network to automate…
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A deep learning digital biomarker to detect hypertension and stratify cardiovascular risk from the electrocardiogram
Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), yet blood pressure is measured intermittently and under suboptimal conditions. We developed a deep learning model to identify hypertension and stratify risk of CVD…
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Innovaccer Launches ’Agents of Care ᵀᴹ’ for Enhanced Care Delivery
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– Innovaccer Inc., the leading Healthcare AI company, today announced the launch of its “Agents of Careᵀᴹ”—a suite of pre-trained AI Agents designed to automate repetitive, low-value tasks and handle rising workloads…
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News 2/14/25 – HIStalk
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, JD, LLM is sworn in as HHS secretary.
He will manage a $2 trillion budget and will oversee CMS, CDC, FDA, NIH, the Public Health Service, HHS OIG, AHRQ,…