Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft’s AI arm, says the tech giant has taken “a genuine step toward medical superintelligence,” Wired reported June 30. In a recent test, Microsoft’s new AI system — called the MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator — correctly diagnosed…
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Oracle Health, the nation’s second-largest EHR vendor by hospital market share, has had a busy June. Here are nine times Becker’s reported on the company in the past 30 days: 1. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is asking for…
CMS has unveiled the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction model, a new Innovation Center initiative that will add prior authorization for some traditional fee-for-service Medicare services. Under the model, CMS will partner with companies specializing in AI and machine learning…
An employee of Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio, was injured June 27 after being struck by a bullet “in the line of duty”, the hospital wrote in a Facebook post. James Fair, 36, a hospital patient exhibiting emotional distress, according…
The Republican-led Senate kicked off a vote-a-rama on June 30 after it voted 51-49 in a procedural vote on June 28 to advance the President Donald Trump-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The revised 940-page version of the bill was…
The Trump administration may cut off funding to hospitals that provide gender-related care to children and teenagers, according to a June 30 report from the The Wall Street Journal. CMS told the Journal it believes it has the authority to…
MIT and Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have launched a new seed program aimed at accelerating innovation in healthcare by funding collaborative research projects between the two institutions. The MIT–MGB Seed Program, announced in a June 27 news release, will…
Thousands of nurses are set to begin an open-ended strike July 8 at multiple healthcare facilities in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Seven things to know: 1. The strike involves Minnesota Nurses Association members in Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis. In Duluth,…
West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health has promoted Jean Bryll to senior vice president and chief revenue cycle officer, according to a post on her LinkedIn page. Ms. Bryll had served as the system’s vice president of revenue cycle since November…
The FBI is warning Americans about a growing scam in which criminals pose as health insurance representatives or fraud investigators to steal personal and medical information. In a public service announcement issued June 27, the agency said scammers are contacting…