Making sense of healthcare deals, technology, policy, and the occasional industry curveball.
Our first Second Opinion Summit brought 175 people into the room — and the panel on state AI sandboxes found that health tech mostly wants to watch Utah, not join it. Plus: CMS cuts off New York adult day care, employer family premiums hit $28,303, Abbott spins off formula, and GLP-1s for addiction.
The head of the Federation of State Medical Boards on the AI guidance he expects to put out before the end of December.
Two in five psychologists say their clients are already using AI chatbots to self-diagnose. The industry still can't agree which of these tools are wellness and which are care — and the FDA hasn't said either.
Safety-net providers say they can't afford to monitor the AI they're buying — and the room at Duke thought the model developers should foot the bill. Plus: Rock Health's Q3, the Fitbit Edge, Medicare Advantage plan exits, and Four Questions with Twin Health's Lisa Shah on GLP-1 coverage.
Twin Health's chief medical officer on the employers now dropping GLP-1 coverage, why she thinks they should never have covered the drugs without a lifestyle benefit, and what a defined-contribution carve-out actually buys you.
CMS is suspending payments to companies built on chronic care management and navigation codes. What's being targeted, and how to stay out of it.
Predoc CEO Nish Hari argues that AI agents will extend the life of the fax machine, not end it — because they change the economics of the chart chase.
Utah cleared five more pilots into its AI sandbox — including AI-written prescriptions — and named the evaluators who will vet them. Plus: Epic halts product development over security flaws, Kindbody shuts clinics, and Four Questions with Baligh Yehia.
AI is supercharging cyber threats and health systems are paying for it in security budgets. Here's how vendors should react.
Plan designs bolted onto the status quo aren’t enough to drive change
Utah makes an update to its AI sandbox. Plus: Oura shelves its IPO, RFK Jr. wants Americans' health data, and Four Questions with Mary Varghese Presti.
On the 30% of a nursing shift that still goes to documentation, what agentic workflows could take off the floor, and why the fix is keeping the nurses already in the profession.
