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Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare

Tuesday Links

Posted on July 22, 2025July 21, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Do tariffs disproportionately hurt low-income households? Apparently not.
  • “computer algorithms [will] soon be able to identify people not just by their faces, or fingerprints, or DNA — but by the unique ways they walk.”
  • Approximately 67 percent of American women are considered “plus-size.”
  • Organ transplants: (NYT)

A surgeon made an incision in her chest and sawed through her breastbone. That’s when the doctors discovered her heart was beating. She appeared to be breathing. They were slicing into Ms. Hawkins while she was alive…..

Fifty-five medical workers in 19 states told The Times they had witnessed at least one disturbing case of donation after circulatory death. Workers in several states said they had seen coordinators persuading hospital clinicians to administer morphine, propofol and other drugs to hasten the death of potential donors.

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Health Care AI Has Potential, but Faces Obstacles

Posted on July 15, 2025 by Devon Herrick

Training AI requires consuming copious amounts of data. Consume bad data and the output will be wrong. In computer science this is called garbage in / garbage out. In some AI models once a bad piece of information is learned it becomes exceedingly difficult to purge it. 

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Tuesday Links

Posted on July 1, 2025June 30, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • Why does time fly faster as we get older?
  • TikTok sale may not be as easy as Trump thinks.
  • Microsoft’s new AI system correctly diagnosed patient cases 80% of the time. According to the company, the results from the tool are four times better than the human physicians in the study, who reached the correct answer 20% of the time.
  • States receive $9 in federal funds for every $1 of state spending on able-bodied, working-age adults compared to an average of only $1.33 in federal funds for every $1 of state spending on children, pregnant women, seniors, and people with disabilities.
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WSJ: Health Insurers Vow to Streamline Prior Authorization

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Devon Herrick

One (blunt) instrument to avoid unnecessary care is prior authorization. Doctors and patients hate prior authorization. Prior authorization is when your doctor wants to prescribe a certain drug or order a procedure but must seek approval from your health plan prior to providing that care. Critics claim that prior authorization is a rationing tool, designed to wear down patients into forgoing care due to the hassle. Congress and state governments occasionally weigh-in and try to reform the use of prior authorization.

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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

During this five-year hiatus no one else has come forward to claim the space. So, my colleagues and I have decided to restart the blog in connection with the Goodman Institute. We invite you and others to use this forum to share your views.

John C. Goodman,

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