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In an interesting article STAT brings up the use and non-disclosure to the patient of behind the scenes AI for many different things. These include the chances of developing sepsis, when the patient could go home and the impediments to that, five year survivals etc. The article discusses the pros and cons of telling patients that these AI machines are involved in there care. It appears that many of the AI programs have not been really flushed out as to how the do and how they effect whatever endpoint they are looking at. That may be a real flaw. The other problem is how much the clinician relies on these programs and how much they affect the clinical decision making.
The usual healthcare breach costs the entity roughly $7.1 million and increasing per year. One would think that the industry would want to save itself this money but it doesn't. Even though healthcare has the most problems and the highest costs the entities are still no doing much in prevention. They will not adopt modern security technology.
New York is red faced again. this time for putting up a field hospital at the Billy Jean King Tennis Center for a cost of $52 million. They treated only 79 patients in the one month of its existence due to the city's and hospital's red tape prohibiting the transfer of patients form the very crowded other city hospitals.
In a huge scandal the top officials at Beaumont Health are being asked to step down by the staff at the hospital. There is a no-confidence petition circulating at present. The physicians state the quality of care has diminished with no increase in the bottom line and now local control is to be lost with a purchase by Chicago based Advocate Aurora. The employed physicians are reluctant to sign any petition due to potential reprisals by the hospital. However, private physicians are now sending their patients to other local hospitals. The physicians point to problems with the cutting of pay probably due to the hospital being hit with a huge fine for overpaying physicians in the past and a corporate ingenuity agreement and a huge 35 mile radius for the specialist non-compete clause among other things. The CEO says they need specifics to address any problems. Right! The Board has stated they are very much for the merger with Advocate.
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