Exclusive: Another Key Epic departure
Ruth Reader and Christina Farr
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It's the second twenty-year veteran to leave in a month
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Ruth Reader is the Head of Premium Content at Second Opinion.
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A convicted extortionist is extracting settlements from digital health companies
Ruth Reader
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Serial litigants see opportunity in an old California privacy law
CMS wants to pay for AI as a medical service
Christina Farr, Meredith Nolan and Ruth Reader
12 min read
Good news for digital health companies
California just gave digital health something to worry about
Christina Farr and Ruth Reader
7 min read
A settlement between California's attorney general and Carbon Health is worth paying attention to.
Leadership changes at Epic
Christina Farr, Meredith Nolan and Ruth Reader
7 min read
We're keeping it short this week in honor of the holiday.
Researcher tricks Claude into tapering medication
Ruth Reader
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LLMs have a “fundamental” flaw. We don’t know why they do what they do.
Updoc's FDA Win Raises the Stakes for Health AI Rivals
Christina Farr and Ruth Reader
9 min read
Plus, four questions with MIDI founder Joanna Strober
Lifers hits 1M views and Midjourney enters medical
Christina Farr, Meredith Nolan and Ruth Reader
7 min read
We're covering healthcare's biggest ideas with the people building them.
How AI Could Turn Primary Care Into a Referral Machine
Ruth Reader
9 min read
The technology is advancing quickly. The bigger question is whether the health care system's financial incentives are ready for it.
Abridge’s big announcement
Ruth Reader and Meredith Nolan
10 min read
And a conversation with CEO Shiv Rao
The food industry considers GLP-1s
Christina Farr and Ruth Reader
11 min read
Lawmakers have to approve a new law, which is mixed on how much taxpayers should foot the bill for healthy foods, while food manufacturers are revising their strategies for the weight-loss drug era.
Exclusive: Amazon's Health AI Bot Exposes a Flaw in Patient Data Access
Ruth Reader
5 min read
Experts are weighing the ethics and security vulnerabilities of allowing bots to access patient data as doctors do.