Ruth Reader is the Head of Premium Content at Second Opinion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We spoke with payers, providers and employers about the impending ‘botwars’
A new report says hospitals are using secondary diagnoses to bill higher
Rep. Ro Khanna wants a new agency to vet frontier models. We asked him what that means for healthcare.
This week a scoop from SO and a conversation with AMA's Jennifer Goldsack
HTI-5 rolls back its planned regulatory roll back
