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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.
Axios
06-03-2025
- Health
- Axios
Winter blues intensifying Utah's mental health care shortage
Utah's persistent shortage of mental health care is reaching one of its tightest times of the year: the aftermath of winter's darkest days. The big picture: Shorter days, frequent cloud cover and colder temps can trigger seasonal affective disorder in many otherwise healthy people — but that's not the only fallout. For many Utahns, winter makes existing illnesses more acute, turning outpatients to inpatients and exhausting the state's already meager supply of care providers. Threat level: At Weber Recovery Center, a 42-bed behavioral health and addiction facility in Ogden, intakes typically spike 10% to 30% in the winter months amid delays for early interventions like therapy, owner Jay Tobey told Axios. Opportunities to avoid full-blown crises evaporate "if you get put on a waitlist and it's February, and you don't see someone until the end of March, maybe April," Tobey said. State of play: The nonprofit Mental Health America ranked Utah at No. 46 in 2024 for its high prevalence of depression and anxiety, combined with low access to care for adults. As of 2024, the state had the nation's third-highest share of adults with serious mental illness, per a report from the University of Utah. By the numbers: A 2022 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that nearly 36% of Utah adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression couldn't get the counseling or therapy they needed, compared with about 28% nationally. The intrigue: For patients requiring inpatient care, the shortage is particularly dire. Utah's largest for-profit psychiatric hospital shut down in 2024 after investigations by FOX 13 uncovered years of patient safety problems. That eliminated 83 beds. State lawmakers funded 30 extra beds to open in 2022 at the 300-patient state hospital in Provo but couldn't immediately fill them because of " critical staffing shortages" — and those slots are expected to be overwhelmed by 2027. Zoom in: Tobey's primary company, North Star Recover & Wellness, plans to invest $150 million in acquiring and expanding inpatient care providers, with hopes of operating 500 new beds in Utah in the next two years, he said. But its larger goal is to add longer-term outpatient services, both to preempt crises and to make sure care isn't disrupted once patients are discharged. "Our clients were trying to get additional services, and we send them to the market, and they get put on a 60-person waitlist," Tobey said. Friction point: Unlike behemoth medical systems like Intermountain Health, mental health services tend to be "siloed," Tobey said. That often leaves patients on their own to find providers who will continue the types of treatment that worked for them, accept their insurance, and are taking new patients — an elusive trifecta. What's next: The nonprofit Kem and Carolyn Gardner Crisis Care Center is expected to open at the end of March in South Salt Lake, adding 24 short-term inpatient beds and 30 one-day crisis care beds to the state. Read more: How learning to ski helped me stop feeling SAD
Los Angeles Times
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Art, commerce, Hollywood and family drama collide in ‘The Californians'
'When did everything turn into a grift?' asks a young man named Tobey midway through Brian Castleberry's 'The Californians,' an ambitious, widescreen novel about the ugliness that often ensues when art and commerce collide. In 2024 Tobey is a down-on-his-luck college dropout who's been chased out of his Northern California apartment building by wildfires. Hurting for cash, he signs on to a scheme his brother has concocted to steal three valuable paintings from his father's home in Palm Springs. What's supposed to happen after the theft is hazy to him — something NFT, something crypto — but he's desperate. In this way, Tobey answers his own question: The grift happens when we don't pay attention to what we're destroying for the sake of a dollar. To explain how that happens, Castleberry covers about a century's worth of activity between two families whose fortunes and failures are intertwined. Tobey is the grandson of Frank Harlan, a stone-faced TV and film actor best known for playing the lead role in a '60s detective show, 'Brackett.' The Columbo-esque character was conceived by Klaus von Stiegl, a filmmaker who came to America from Germany and enjoyed acclaim as a silent-film director. His granddaughter, Di Stiegl, painted the artworks that Tobey is stealing, made during her '80s heyday of putting a spotlight on AIDS and the moral bankruptcy of the go-go '80s. All of which is to say there's a lot going on, and a lot of it catches fire, literally or metaphorically. The family tree that opens the book covers family relationships, but nearly everyone is estranged or strained in some way. Given that, many of the Harlan and Stiegl lineages replace affection with money, who wants what from it, and what they embrace or forsake for it. The fickle way time treats art has an impact as well. Klaus was a pioneer in the silent days — think Lubitsch or Lang — but he can't successfully make the transition to talkies and relies on the largesse of his heiress wife. Di's paintings were acclaimed by New York's downtown set, but shifting times plus a debilitating cocaine habit took a toll. 'He'd come west dreaming that he was an artist, and immediately been made a cog in someone else's machine,' Klaus thinks, but he's not the only one suffering that fate. Much of the action takes place in Palm Springs. It's where Klaus films an alleged masterpiece on his own back lot, an artsy 'Hansel and Gretel' allegory that MGM refused to release, and then attempts to burn down in a fury. It's where Di as a child developed her shimmering photorealistic style, and where the Harlan clan pursued property development when art didn't quite pan out or turned into hackery. 'Maybe art didn't put anything into order,' Di thinks, rightly, at one point. 'Maybe it reflected back the chaos, the ambiguity, the vertigo of living.' To that point, Castleberry has pursued the tricky task of creating an orderly novel whose theme is chaos. There are places where he's not quite up to the task, where the various lines that stretch through and across the family trees can feel like tripwires for the reader. A mother's disappearance comes into the narrative, then fades; a money-grubbing son arrives, then steps off the stage. Castleberry means to frame Klaus as hard-hearted to the point of cruelty. One woman in his life, a prized silent actress, is driven to kill herself by jumping off the Hollywood sign — a tragedy that, in addition to being a bit on the nose, is softened by more compelling narratives about Klaus' late-career revival via 'Brackett,' his selling out a writer during the Red Scare, and genius granddaughter. Castleberry can make you wonder which reprobate to care about most, which sin causes the most harm. But the flaws in 'The Californians' reflect ambition and overexertion, not slackness. Castleberry strives to realistically capture the way money shores up or permeates all sorts of creative endeavors: Hollywood, TV, fine art and more. The realism is bolstered by interstitial chapters featuring news stories, blog posts, term papers and other ephemera that address the characters' lives, while also suggesting that the official story these pieces help create always gets things somewhat wrong. He makes you desperately wish you could see the fourth season of 'Brackett,' where the lead goes dark and rogue in a way that anticipates 'The Sopranos' by decades. 'In America, art is always paid for by somebody and griped about by somebody else,' Klaus opines late in the novel to Di. 'Occasionally something breaks through, people see it, people like it, their lives are changed by an infinitesimal degree. … If you're really lucky you can make a living looking at all this and making some sense of it and communicating it to others.' In the context of the story, he's inspiring a young Di to pursue a painting career. But in the world of the novel, Castleberry is trying to honor art-making — including novel-writing — to a world that wants to reduce it to matters of profit and loss. Art often is just a business, but a dangerous one: Changing people by an infinitesimal degree, Castleberry knows, has a way of thoroughly warping and wrecking human lives. Athitakis is a writer in Phoenix and author of 'The New Midwest.'
CBS News
08-02-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Colorado legislature honors veterans of the "forgotten war"
The Korean War is often called the forgotten war, and you need look no further than the Colorado State Capitol to understand why. For at least 30 years, state lawmakers have celebrated Military Appreciation Day to honor the service and sacrifice of Colorado's 340,000 veterans and 47,000 active-duty members of the military. They've brought resolutions commemorating World War II, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf War, along with Latino, Native American and African American veterans. But until now, there has never been a resolution to honor those who served in the Korean War. "It's been 75 years and it's about time," said state Rep. Rebecca Keltie. Keltie and state Rep. Matthew Martinez -- both veterans themselves -- sponsored the first Colorado resolution to honor Korean War veterans, along with state Sen. Lisa Frizell and state Sen. Lisa Cutter. The sacrifices made were tremendous and the pain and loss endured by the families across this nation cannot be measured," said Martinez. Keltie's dad, Leon Ross, was among those who sacrificed and "was one of the greatest men I've ever known." Like most Korean War veterans, Ross is no longer alive. Dick Robinson and Wayne Tobey are among the few left. They were in the House chamber at the Colorado State Capitol on Friday for the recognition. Tobey was a radio operator credited with saving a fellow airman's life. Robinson was an infantryman who received the silver star, bronze star, and purple heart. His service didn't stop when he returned, "I'm still a lifetime board member of Regis University, Mountain States Employers Council, and the Boy Scouts." He also started the iconic Robinson Dairy with his brother and helped bring the Colorado Rockies here. "I did a lot in my life," Tobey said. But at 95 years old, he says the war still haunts him every day. A total of 36,000 Americans died. "My battery was hit very heavily," Robinson said. "I lost eight men and one of them was my closest friend and you never forget it." Lawmakers said they, too, would never again forget the sacrifice of Korean War veterans.
