- 2017 Trump tax cuts: workers in the bottom half of incomes saw a 9.3 percent reduction in their tax burden, compared to 3 percent for the top 10 percent of earners.
- Was AI used to write the MAHA report?
- Bill Buckley never had a positive vision of what a conservative government would look like.
- House reconciliation bill would give 20 million more Americans access to Health Savings Accounts. (WSJ)
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
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Argument: even super AI won’t take all our jobs. Ozempic for everyone? In addition to weight loss and treating diabetes, it appears to help with heart, kidney and liver diseases, sleep apnea, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, alcohol addiction and even aging. (WSJ) Hospital lobbyists blocked site neutrality from the reconciliation bill – a measure that would…
AI May Be Eavesdropping on Your Next Doctor Visit
I have never had another person in the exam room with my doctor and me during a physician visit after childhood. With the introduction of electronic medical records many people complained there was hardly even a doctor in the room listening to them. Health insurers, and public health advocates, all want a ton of documentation from each physician visit. Increasingly there is another party eavesdropping on your doctor’s visit. An artificial intelligence (AI) interface passively recording and processing the visit discussion and turning the conversation into a coherent medical record.
AI Can Reduce Medication Errors
Medical errors and medical failures do not often result from simple mistakes. Most are the result of a series of failures that lead to serious errors. By the way, the same is true of plane crashes. A simple technical fix is unlikely to solve the problem of incorrect medication errors. A comprehensive system of risk analysis from the pharmacy to the hospital floor or operating room will be necessary to eliminate medication errors.