Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2023, generative artificial intelligence has gathered buzz, with many healthcare workers, leaders and staff expressing concerns about using "unregulated" technology. But has this sentiment changed?"I think in the last year, I don't hear as much of the fear-based discussion," Sarah Pletcher, MD, vice president and executive medical director of ..read more

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey sent letters last week to Steward’s top lenders, asking for modified loan terms to help keep hospitals open.Dive Brief:U.S. senators for Massachusetts sent letters late last week to half a dozen of Steward Health Care’s lenders urging them modify loan terms rather than “continue squeezing Steward” as time runs ..read more

Giovanni Caforio, who left Bristol Myers last November, is set to succeed Novartis’ longtime chair Joerg Reinhardt next year.Giovanni Caforio, the former CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb, is set to become the next board chairman of Novartis, which on Tuesday proposed the pharmaceutical industry veteran as its pick to replace Joerg Reinhardt in the role ..read more

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has committed to having all Medicare beneficiaries in value-based payments (VBPs) by the end of this decade. This seems ambitious. After all, it has been more than 13 years since passage of the Affordable Care Act, 11 years since introduction of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP ..read more

CMS has published two final rules designed to expand access in the Medicaid fee-for-service and managed care programs. The rules align requirements in the Children's Health Insurance Program with the Medicaid program and cement various changes to state directed payments, including codifying state flexibility for directed payments to match the average commercial rate, according to ..read more

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Amy Stiffarm of Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies: The Montana Coalition on her recent paper that explores strategies to support perinatal mental health by collaborating with tribal communities in Montana.Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With ..read more

Philip Tagari, Chief Scientific Officer of insitro, joins Vijay Pande, founding general partner at a16z Bio + Health.Together, they discuss the transformative power of drugs in changing human health—and history. They also reflect on the evolution of the drug discovery process as it shifts from serendipitous discovery to AI-enabled engineering. Finally, they chat about where ..read more

Smaller artificial intelligence (AI) models, like Microsoft’s recently unveiled Phi-3-mini, are proving that bigger isn’t always better for business applications.These lightweight, efficient models can tackle content creation and data analysis without the hefty computational requirements and costs associated with their larger counterparts, experts say, making AI more accessible and cost-effective for businesses. “Small language models ..read more

Key Points- Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Tuesday that the company is moving its world headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee, to be closer to a major health-care epicenter.- The company has been making a major push into health care in recent years, most notably with its $28 billion acquisition of Cerner.- Nashville is home to a ..read more

I recently had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion at Stanford University, organized by the Center for Social Innovation. With an audience of faculty and students from the Graduate School of Business and School of Medicine, the panel delved deep into the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in revolutionizing healthcare.I was joined by ..read more