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Newsweek
16-05-2025
- Health
- Newsweek
Newsweek's Next Virtual Event Aims to Build Health Care's AI Playbook
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been integrated into almost every industry. In health care, AI has been used for detection and analysis and to help with physician burnout, but it is also susceptible to false information and bias. As health care systems adopt new technologies, there is a growing need for strong leadership and policies to ensure AI technology doesn't impact patient safety. Newsweek's Healthcare Editor Alexis Kayser is hosting a live webinar next week to explore how the health care industry is adopting AI. "Health Care's AI Playbook: Building Safe, Smart and Scalable Systems" is a virtual event on Tuesday, May 20, that brings together AI experts in the health sector to discuss best practices for implementing AI innovation, enforcing checks and balances on new technology and building trust with physicians and patients. "AI offers unprecedented opportunities to improve patient outcomes and revolutionize care delivery," Kayser said. "But this immense potential comes with a profound responsibility: especially in an industry like health care, where human lives hang in the balance. Industry-wide conversations dedicated to AI governance are essential to ensure that these tools are developed safely and equitably." Join our panel of AI experts for an interactive discussion on safe, scalable innovation. Join our panel of AI experts for an interactive discussion on safe, scalable innovation. Newsweek The guests are experts working directly with AI in the health care industry. Dr. Andreea Bodnari, Founder/CEO of Bodnari is a scientist by training (earning her PhD in Machine Learning from MIT), a serial entrepreneur, and former product executive at Google and UnitedHealth Group where she launched industry-winning AI platforms and products. At Google, she founded and scaled the B2B Healthcare AI product department. Bondari has been a reviewer at JAMIA for more than 10 years and is a member of CHAI and NIST AI Safety Consortium. Dr. Danny Tobey, Chair of DLA Piper's AI & Data Analytics Practice Tobey is a lawyer, software founder and medical doctor who has been recognized by the United Nations for his "profound insights on the intersection of AI, law and ethics." He has been recognized as Innovative Lawyer of the Year by the Financial Times and led Business Insider's list of top AI lawyers. Tobey has been invited to speak on AI and law and has written on technology and law for publications, including the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. Tobey has represented several of the major foundation model makers and six of the Fortune 10 on AI business enablement and risk management. His work on red teaming generative AI and proactive compliance was recognized by American Lawyer for 2024 best use of generative AI and by the Financial Times as the 2024 new service for the management of risk. Tobey is a founding member of the United Nation's AI Law & Justice Institute and has helped defend the first litigations involving AI hallucinations. His writing was recognized by the U.S. Library of Congress as "the best of the best in the legal profession." Dr. Brian Anderson, CEO/Co-Founder of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) At CHAI, Anderson focuses on developing consensus-driven guidelines and best practices for responsible AI in health and supporting the ability to independently test and validate AI for safety and effectiveness. He was previously the chief digital health physician at MITRE, where he led research and development efforts in digital health with government partners, including the White House COVID Task Force and Operation Warp Speed. Anderson is also an author and speaker on digital health and health innovations and previously led the Informatics and Network Medicine Division at athenahealth. He has also served on several national, and international, health information technology committees in partnership with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Dr. Michael Pencina, Vice Dean for Data Science and Chief Data Scientist at Duke Health, Director of Duke AI Health As vice dean, Pencina is responsible for developing and implementing quantitative science strategies for education and training and laboratory, clinical science and data science missions of the School of Medicine. He is a professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University and previously served as Director of Biostatistics at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Pencina is an internationally recognized authority on risk prediction model development and evaluation; is actively involved in the design, conduct and analysis of clinical studies; and interacts regularly with investigators from academic and industry institutions as well as the Food and Drug Administration. He also has 400 publication in peer-reviewed journals that have been cited over 111,000 times. In Kayser's latest edition of the Access Health newsletter, Pencina said health care has a lot to lose if humans fall out of touch. He compared AI to small children, who are more likely to do something "mischievous" if they are not being watched. In April, Kayser recently hosted a virtual event about cybersecurity threats to health care systems. Panelists from LevelBlue, Kyndryl and Zoom spoke with Newsweek about how artificial intelligence can be a tool but also could be leveraged by threat actors. For Kyndryl Vice President for U.S. Healthcare Trent Sanders, the quickest and easiest way for health care organizations to step up their security is to identify and eliminate unnecessary enterprise equipment that can pose cybersecurity threats. The upcoming AI virtual event will run from 2:15 to 3:15 pm EST. You can register for the live event here. Newsweek's Alexis Kayser dives into AI and other topics on the business of health care on a weekly basis. To sign up for her Access Health newsletter, register here.
WIRED
08-04-2025
- Health
- WIRED
Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall
Apr 8, 2025 4:21 PM Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers. Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff;Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), spent much of his first all-staff meeting on Monday promoting the use of artificial intelligence at the agency and praising Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Again Initiative,' sources tell WIRED. During the meeting, Oz discussed possibly prioritizing AI avatars over frontline health care workers. Oz claimed that if a patient went to a doctor for a diabetes diagnosis, it would be '$100' per hour, while an appointment with an AI avatar would cost considerably less, at just '$2' an hour. Oz also claimed that patients have rated the care they've received from an AI avatar as equal to or better than a human doctor. (Research suggests patients are actually more skeptical of medical advice given by AI.) Because of technologies like machine learning and AI, Oz claimed, it is now possible to scale 'good ideas' in an affordable and fast way. CMS did not immediately respond to a request for comment. CMS has explored the use of AI for the last several years, according to archived versions of an agency website dedicated to the topic, and the agency released an updated 'AI Playbook' in 2022. But those efforts appear to have focused on finding ways to leverage vast CMS data sets, rather than involving AI directly in patient care. The Senate confirmed Oz as CMS's new administrator on April 3. CMS, which runs Medicare, Medicaid, and is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where health care conspiracist RFK Jr. currently serves as department secretary. CMS spent more than $1.5 trillion in fiscal year 2024, which accounted for more than one-fifth of total government outlays. The agency employs nearly 7,000 employees, and provides health care coverage for almost half of the US. Current CMS employees describe the agency as 'the most policy-dense organization in government' where the administrator must make decisions on where to spend billions of dollars on certain treatments in a zero-sum environment. 'Please join incoming CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz and other senior leaders to learn more about his vision and priorities for CMS,' stated the meeting description, which was called for Monday at 1:00 pm EST. 'This is an internal event, and all CMS staff are invited to participate virtually. Staff who are onsite at CMS office locations should consider gathering in available offices or conference space.' Oz has seemingly never worked in health care policy before, but served as a physician for many years before becoming the star of The Dr. Oz Show. He has promoted a number of provably incorrect medical tips—including the use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as a treatment for COVID—and weight-loss pills that Oz admitted in a 2014 Senate subcommittee hearing 'don't have the scientific muster to present as fact.' He also unsuccessfully ran for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania, losing against current senator John Fetterman. At the meeting, Oz spoke extensively about his family's history, the origins of his name, and his educational background at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania (including his football career), before talking about CMS. Oz told CMS employees that it was their 'patriotic duty' to take care of themselves as it would help decrease the cost of health care, citing the costs of running Medicare and Medicaid throughout the country. (During his Senate confirmation hearing for CMS administrator, Oz also claimed 'it is our patriotic duty to be healthy,' connecting personal exercise to the overall reduction of expenses for Medicare and Medicaid.) Oz spoke at length during the meeting about "obesity" in the US and what it costs CMS, without citing any provable statistics. He said that addressing obesity was one of his top priorities. (The Biden administration had suggested that Medicare and Medicaid cover costs for weight loss drugs, an initiative that the Trump administration has so far declined to expand. Oz has repeatedly drawn criticism for promoting 'miracle' weight-loss cures on the Dr. Oz Show.) 'I'm not sure he knows what we do here,' said one CMS employee who listened to the call. 'He was talking about nutrition and exercise. That's not what Medicare does. We care for people in nursing homes. We deal with dying people.' When asked how he would prefer to be briefed on complex policy issues, Oz told staffers, You'll find that I am not purposely but deliberately naive about a lot of issues . Sources tell WIRED that this seemed to them like a roundabout way for Oz to say that he is focused not on personal or political motivations, but the facts. Oz also claimed that CMS needed to do a better job of addressing 'fraud and waste' at the agency, two purported targets of Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Oz also endorsed MAHA: Make America Healthy Again, an HHS priority that was originally a cornerstone of RFK Jr's 2024 presidential campaign. In the CMS meeting, Oz stated that MAHA is all about "curiosity." (Kennedy, who has championed MAHA, has also repeatedly and dangerously promoted anti-vaccine opinions, doctors, and activists.) 'Reinforcements are coming to the agency,' Oz said, speaking of doctors and clinicians he claims have been left behind or left out of CMS's work; or even those who wouldn't have previously wanted to work at CMS before. The idea of bringing new people to CMS, where hundreds of employees were recently fired as part of a sweeping reduction in force (RIF) at HHS, was upsetting to those who were present at the meeting. 'That was frankly insulting to the CMS staff,' says a source. 'We have incredible people here.'
Yahoo
10-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI used to speed up planning applications and benefits claims, records reveal
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used by the Government to speed up planning applications and benefits claims, newly published records have revealed. Habitats are being charted by Natural England using satellite images and machine learning technology, in order to track changes to the environment which would have been done manually in the past. Meanwhile, the Department for Work and Pensions is processing claims for Employment and Support Allowance more quickly with AI assistance. The projects are among 14 examples of AI and algorithmic tools which ministers have revealed are being used to improve efficiency in the public sector. Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, who is attending an international summit in Paris focused on regulating AI, said ministers want to use the technology to 'save money, speed things up and, crucially, improve public services for people across the UK'. The Government has also published an 'AI Playbook', which sets out guidelines for how the public sector should and can use the technology. Mr Kyle added: 'The publication of our AI Playbook today comes with a call to arms for tech specialists across the public sector – use the guidance we are sharing to put AI to work in your organisations at whiplash speed, so we can repair our broken public services together.' Among the other projects revealed in Government records is a Met Office scheme using algorithmic tools to make more accurate weather forecasts. National Highways is using a chatbot to provide traffic information to drivers, and the Money and Pensions Service has made available two tools to help people calculate redundancy pay and track their pensions. Records of the projects were published as Mr Kyle travelled to Paris to meet world leaders, tech executives, academics and other experts as AI increasingly becomes a key geopolitical issue. French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting around 80 countries and a wide range of industry figures at the Grand Palais for the AI Action Summit. Sign in to access your portfolio
