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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promising to 'do more with less' — with the help of artificial intelligence.
'The AI revolution has arrived, and we are already using these new technologies to manage health care data more efficiently and securely,' he told the House Appropriations Committee at Wednesday's hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services' budget.
Kennedy said the department is recruiting top tech talent to 'transform' it into a 'central hub for AI,' and has so far hired experts from companies like technology focused government contractor Palantir, management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Still, the department also lost tech brain power as the Trump administration moves to reduce the number of federal workers, some of whom the department has had to convince to come back.
A new phase: Since before he became secretary, Kennedy has talked about using AI in myriad ways, including to provide concierge care to far-flung Americans. But during this hearing, he narrowed in on AI's potential use to dramatically alter clinical trials.
The Food and Drug Administration has said it would phase out animal testing for some new therapies and replace it with novel testing methods, including AI. But Kennedy thinks that AI can do even more.
'We're trying to reform Phase III studies, for example, which are the longest, the most expensive — to do a lot of those functions by AI,' he told appropriators. He reiterated that position in an afternoon hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, promising to shorten clinical trials.
It's unclear what his plans would entail.
President Donald Trump's top health officials have alluded to using AI to fix health care while being extremely light on details. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary recently announced plans to roll out AI at the agency, but he's been unclear about how the agency would actually use it.
But Kennedy is resolute, 'We are very, very aggressively implementing AI,' he said. 'We brought very, very high-quality, caliber people from Silicon Valley.'
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Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, disrupted Kennedy's testimony before the Senate HELP committee to protest U.S. financial support for Israel's military amid its war with Hamas in Gaza, while also plotting cuts to Medicaid. Police charged the ice cream mogul with incommoding and released him.
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HHS is betting that the key to making value-based care flourish is technology.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator are seeking feedback on how the agency can give Medicare patients better access to digital tools and health data to manage their care and improve health information exchange across the industry.
A request for information asks patients and caregivers, payers, providers, value-based care organizations and tech vendors about their experience accessing data and recommending, prescribing or using certain digital health tools like remote patient monitoring for health conditions.
Some questions are fascinating:
The questions suggest CMS could eventually put forward a proposal that gives it a larger role in facilitating the development and approval of new digital health technologies.The RFI also smacks of a paper written earlier this year by Leavitt Partners' Ryan Howells, who was in the running to lead ONC. The paper suggests that ONC should certify the software through which payers, providers, and other vendors send information to one another, rather than certifying electronic health records.
'[Howell's paper] has its fingerprints all over this,' said Brendan Keeler, who heads up interoperability at health consultancy HTD Health.
SMALL BYTES
Electronic health records giant Epic Systems is being sued — again.
CureIS Healthcare, which develops software for managed care organizations, claims that Epic used anticompetitive behavior, including blocking it from receiving necessary data under the guise of a security threat, to kill off the company's business.
It's the third such lawsuit to emerge in the last year and the second against Epic. A spokesperson for the EHR company said it believes in fair competition and looks forward to correcting the record in court.
The legal action is part of an overall trend wherein health industry vendors fight back against electronic health record companies that, they argue, have illegitimately blocked them from accessing information they need to operate.
One vendor, Real Time Medical Systems, has so far scored an early win in its lawsuit against PointClickCare. The electronic health records company must give Real Time access to its data while the case plays out.
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