And I have another story on this:
Even while waiting for data to roll in, both providers and payers agree that AI scribes are driving up the cost of care in the middle of an affordability crisis.
What, if anything, are we going to do about it?
#health #healthcare #medicine #AI #artificialintelligence #healthtech #AIscribe #ambientscribe #healthcarecosts
https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/insurers-providers-agree-ai-scribes-raise-health-care-costs/
Coding intensity for patient visits is rising. Did AI scribes do that?
You may have seen the Trilliant study that alleges AI scribes are making visit coding go up. But what does the study actually say?
An analysis of that, and much more, in this week's AI Prognosis:
https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/are-scribes-raising-health-care-costs-ai-prognosis/
#health #healthcare #medicine #AI #artificialintelligence #healthtech #AIscribe #ambientscribe #healthcarecosts
RE: https://newsie.social/@STAT/116369440554418902
"A decade ago, these drugs tore apart the FDA. Today, they might be some patients’ best hope
Once-divisive ‘exon-skipping’ treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy are showing startling promise"
By Jason Mast
April 8, 2026
LinkedIn past tracker wall:
#Futures: #humanities #psychiatry #politics #medicine
Achille Mbembe speaks on Frantz Fanon 📍 When the #clinical and the #political are co-constitutive
Achille Mbembe, political theorist and philosopher, speaks on the 20th century Caribbean psychiatrist Frantz #Fanon (Martinique). Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) at Duke University. Mbembe is the 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate.
How Kidney Stones Form
Nature: Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real. “The problem was that the experiment worked too well. Within weeks of her uploading information about the condition, attributed to a fictional author, major artificial-intelligence systems began repeating the invented condition as if it were real. Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/08/nature-scientists-invented-a-fake-disease-ai-told-people-it-was-real/Interesting. Two recessives. No proteins.
How a three-pill treatment could eliminate a centuries-old disease
Brittany Trang
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