Cohere’s AI platform has a high auto approval rate, but if another type of care is required before surgery, the tech provides that faster, says Dr. Traci Granston at Cohere.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation are mailing written notifications to 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information may have been compromised in a cyber breach.

To get to the end state, health systems need to have data that is secure, accessible and interoperable, says HIMSS president and CEO Hal Wolf.  

Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic is launching a new artificial intelligence education program using $10 million in funds from the Harper Family Foundation. The Mayo Clinic Harper Family Foundation Artificial Intelligence Education in Medicine Program will train staff and medical professionals to deploy the best AI technology, ethically, for patients, the health system said.

CISOs must have the skill of curiosity to search for answers when detecting that something is amiss when AI innovations are onboarded, says David Heaney, CISO at Mass General Brigham.

Risant Health will make available a minimum of $1 billion in capital to Cone Health over the next five years to support investments in facilities, health equity and other capital projects, according to a financial filing by Kaiser Permanente.

Stanford Health Care, based out of Palo Alto, California, has tapped Health and Human Services official Dr. Nazleen Bharmal to serve as its first chief health equity officer. Bharmal, who begins her new role effective this month, will also join the Department of Medicine as a clinical associate professor in the Division of Primary Care […]

The risk is a cyberattacker using AI to process a volume of data and finding a corner of the environment we didn’t know about, says Dave Heaney, CISO at Mass General Brigham.  

Steward Health Care CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre is refusing to appear before a Senate Committee next week, despite being issued a subpoena to answer questions about the health system’s bankruptcy. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) issued a subpoena in July for de la Torre to appear on September […]

Speaking to a lack of transparency in pharmaceutical pricing, a new Health Affairs study has found that, over time, out-of-pocket drug prices for consumers have grown more quickly than those encountered by insurers.