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Abridge unveils new analysis collaborative with Epic, Stanford
In an announcement shared solely with STAT, ambient documentation darling Abridge says it’s launching a brand new analysis effort to look at the know-how’s affect on 5 dimensions: “clinician expertise, affected person expertise, healthcare prices, outcomes, and well being fairness.”
The so-called Abridge Analysis Collective‘s first steering committee co-chairs are its personal chief scientific officer Tina Shah and Yale New Haven Well being System’s chief digital well being officer Lee Sponge; members embody the College of Chicago‘s Vineet Arora; Epic’s chief medical officer Jackie Gerhartand Stanford Faculty of Drugs affiliate dean Tate Shanafeltamongst others.
The group is “positioned to be an accelerator for analysis efforts” that might change the best way well being care’s delivered, Schwamm mentioned in an announcement. “Deeper understanding of the construction and content material of medical conversations will generate contemporary insights into the affected person journey that will finally result in improved well being outcomes.”
Epic Techniques has been challenged in courtroom earlier than, nevertheless it’s completely different this time
Additionally on EpicCasey Ross delves into the implications of an antitrust lawsuit filed in opposition to the well being data behemoth by upstart well being information firm Particle Well being. It’s a uncommon direct risk to Epic’s dominance within the affected person information market, authorized and well being coverage consultants mentioned. “It represents what I predict might be a progress space for litigation: battles between the info ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots,’” Michelle Melloprofessor of legislation and well being coverage at Stanford College informed Casey. Curiously, Epic has referred to as on well being information alternate Carequality to share extra about its affected person privateness dispute with Particle publicly. Learn extra from Casey.
Micky Tripathi has one of many hardest jobs in D.C.
Should you’ve been at any well being tech-related gathering throughout the nation just lately, likelihood is you’ve noticed Micky Tripathithe federal authorities’s prime well being IT official, trotting out slide decks on the scope of his function in Washington and taking questions from trade on information frameworks like TEFCA. Late final month, my colleagues and I counted not less than 4 public appearances within the span of per week.
Due to a Well being and Human Companies Division re-org, today Tripathi’s coordinating extra than simply well being IT and information requirements: Now, he’s overseeing HHS’ AI technique and corralling disparate companies, from the Nationwide Institutes of Well beingwhich spend money on AI analysis, to the Meals and Drug Administrationwhich regulates software program as a medical system, to work collectively. Learn extra about Tripathi and the way he thinks concerning the huge job forward — as he tells me, “espresso, Weight loss program Coke, and adrenaline.”
Why medical AI and value-based care could also be made for one another
The well being tech desk has a pair well timed Q&As for you this week. Katie Palmer spoke with Stanford professor James Zou, who’s been wanting into scientific adoption of medical units geared up with AI know-how. Only a tiny sliver of FDA-authorized units, he’s discovered, are being reimbursed at any scale.”There’s virtually a thousand medical units now which have been accepted or cleared by the FDA, and lots of of those got here in the previous couple of years,” he informed Katie. “However in our evaluation, we noticed that solely a handful — basically 4 — have seen substantial adoption, not less than as measured by reimbursements from insurance coverage corporations.” Learn extra.
MedStar Well being’s Raj Ratwani on guardrails for well being AI
Talking of regulation, Brittany Trang sat down with MedStar‘s vp of scientific affairs Raj Ratwaniwho says he sits firmly in between the 2 camps he sees rising within the raging debate over how greatest to manage AI. One, he says, favors a community of well being assurance labs to conduct high quality management checks, like that proposed by the Coalition for Well being AI; one other argues that such a federation incurs inherent inequities.
“A possible mannequin could be one thing like a basic certification course of for AI methods — one thing like what CHAI is engaged on — and along with that, some native testing and analysis [where]particularly for under-resourced services, there’s useful resource help for conducting that testing,” he informed Brittany. “We now have to deliver each of these concepts collectively and we have now to guarantee that no matter course of that we develop there’s actually going to be a course of that serves all.” Learn extra.
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What we’re studying
Lawmakers search inquiry of FDA system chief’s potential conflicts, New York Occasions
BetterHelp, Talkiatry to associate on psychiatry, MedCityNews
Epic’s succession plan for Judy Faulkner, Forbes
