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Athenahealth is opening up patient health records to outside AI assistants, starting with Anthropic’s Claude, through a new MCP connection designed to give patients personalized answers based on their clinical data.
Patients are open to doctors using AI for more administrative tasks, but they’re less enthusiastic about using it for diagnosing or claims adjudication, according to a new survey.
Medicare is footing a bigger bill for hospices bought by private equity firms, spending nearly $1,000 more per stay. Researchers said PE firms may be boosting inappropriate admissions to maximize reimbursement.
Doctors keep recommending hospitals in the same few US regions. The rest of the map pays a price.
The breakup, which will separate Aetna and Caremark from CVS’ retail pharmacies, is an indictment of the dogma that bigger is always better in the healthcare industry.
Organizations are moving beyond single agent systems despite operational complexity and lack of proven value, Capgemini found.
After Democrats won big in Texas and other AI infrastructure hot spots on Tuesday, data center enthusiasts looked for comfort in low Earth orbit.
