Ughhhh they had a clinic PA seeing over 20 patients a day and this led to provider missing ACS (acute coronary syndrome) in a 53 year old male patient (who happened to be an exec at Ernst & Young). Patient was evaluated twice for chest pain … and both times the PA appears to have misdiagnosed him with something benign.

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Patients deserve the benefits of increasingly capable AI without compromising the safety, accountability, and clinical judgment at the heart of good medical care. As agentic AI assumes increasingly consequential clinical functions, clinical authority must be earned through evidence and maintained through demonstrated performance. We need a clear framework for determining what these systems should be permitted to do, under what conditions, and who is accountable for their actions and outcomes. Today, the AMA is setting out that framework and committing to advancing its broad adoption. This fall, the AMA Center for Digital Health and AI will prioritize work with physicians, policymakers, regulators, and technology developers to translate these principles into practice, with a particular focus on liability, licensure, and regulation. spr.ly/6013BHESoc

Imagine large language models (LLMs) serving as an interface between patients and all the wearable devices they use! A study just proved that it works effectively. "A new AI-driven platform could allow people to interact with their medical devices by sending messages using a smartphone application and receiving feedback in real time. Participants in a proof-of-concept study undergoing monitoring for seizures could ask questions about their brain activity, receive personalized alerts, report symptoms and behaviors, and help train the system to better recognize seizure-related patterns." You wear a health sensor and can ask questions about the data and the insights derived from that, like talking to ChatGPT. This is going to boost the already huge population (around 1 billion people) using health wearables. Source: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/pen…

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American is 37 years old, she had a heart attack 2 weeks ago She has Cigna for her health insurance and they just mailed her a letter saying “after carefully reviewing the information, we determined the service is not medically necessary.” Her bill is $110,000 for staying in the ER for 2 days “They don't think that saving my life was medically necessary — My total bill so far is currently at $110,000, is how much it costs to save my life. I'm sure there's more bills coming still, but Cigna doesn't think that it was medically necessary” We need health insurance reform and we need it right now in America. Our entire medical system has been turned into a for profit scam Just know if something like this happens to you, there is Federal Law that essentially says it has to be covered Federal law under the ACA and No Surprises Act rules requires coverage of emergency services based on the prudent layperson standard: whether a reasonable person with average knowledge of health and medicine, looking at the symptoms at the time, would believe immediate care was needed to avoid serious harm This just shows that coverage for this woman should have never been denied Health insurance companies are out of control