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The new AI Medicare review program "incentivizes participating private companies to deny procedures"

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/05/30/washington-seniors-ai-medicare-review-program/

"Five months into a pilot program that uses AI to review certain Medicare procedure requests, Washington seniors face new hurdles and worsening health outcomes, according to health care providers and lawmakers."

#USPol #Washington #Medicare #AI #HealthCare #MedMastodon

Washington seniors face denied, delayed care under AI Medicare review program

The program, which incentivizes participating private companies to deny procedures, has become the target of a repeal effort by Democratic Congressional members, including those from Washington state.

OPB

Charité Berlin 2d ago

[1/7] In Pro-FIT-Projekten bringen Forschende der #CharitéBerlin ihre Ergebnisse gemeinsam mit Industriepartnern in die Anwendung - kofinanziert durch den Europäischen Fonds für regionale Entwicklung. Jetzt sind wieder neue Projekte an den Start gegangen. 🚀 #EFRE 🔬 #Medizin #MedMastodon #Forschung

Acta Paediatrica 4d ago

Don't miss our June 2026 issue! Check it out here 👉https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16512227/2026/115/6
#NeoMastodon #Pediatrics #MedMastodon #Nicuverse

Ahimsa 5d ago

RE: https://disabled.social/@tomkindlon/116640578558884764

Quote:

"Long COVID did not create medicine’s discomfort with invisible illness. It exposed a preexisting pattern that millions of patients had been navigating for decades.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, dysautonomia, POTS — these conditions share remarkable clinical overlap with Long COVID, and they share something else too: a history of being dismissed, minimized, and inadequately researched"

@mecfs @longcovid

#MEcfs #LongCovid #POTS #MedMastodon

Matteo Cesari 5d ago

Assessment of #sleep in older people within comprehensive geriatric assessments: a scoping review

"...Sleep can be assessed by any #healthcare practitioner in the multidisciplinary team..."

#Geriatrics #Frailty #CGA #Health #Care
#MedMastodon

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/55/5/afag094/8693233

Matteo Cesari May 21

#Frailty and #IntrinsicCapacity: integrating complementary concepts to promote healthy #ageing and transformation of #care

"...what unites and differentiates them, and how each contributes to a common understanding of high-quality, integrated care for older people..."

#Geriatrics #Health #Aging #MedMastodon

Full-text👇
https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/55/5/afag138/8689999

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Ahimsa May 18

This blog post has a good overview of the project:

"DNA sequencing study to help pinpoint biology of ME gets £4.7m"

https://mecfsresearchreview.me/2026/05/12/dna-sequencing-study-to-help-pinpoint-biology-of-me-gets-4-7m/

@mecfs @longcovid

#MEcfs #LongCovid #SequenceME #DecodeME #Genetics #MedMastodon

DNA sequencing study to help pinpoint biology of ME gets £4.7m

The UK government has given nearly £5 million to fund full sequencing of the DNA of 6,000 people with ME using the best available technology. This will help scientists home in on what is really dri…

ME/CFS Research Review

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦May 18

From PCOS to PMOS.
“PMOS is a chronic condition associated with diabetes, heart disease, depression, infertility, pregnancy complications and a general decreased quality of life. It affects an estimated one in eight women worldwide, and about one in 10 Canadian women”
#ReproSci #ReproMed #WomensHealth #ObGyn #MedMastodon #Medicine #PMOS
https://theconversation.com/from-pcos-to-pmos-what-the-name-change-to-polyendocrine-metabolic-ovarian-syndrome-means-for-womens-health-282843

From PCOS to PMOS: What the name change to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome means for women’s health

PMOS is not primarily a disease of the ovaries. Its new name reflects the condition’s more complex and cyclical endocrine and metabolic features.

The Conversation

Medical Staff Talent May 17

Elite maritime medicine requires true clinical infrastructure at sea. 🌊🏥

We connect UHNW GCC families directly with Western-trained nurses for private yachts.

Featured: Arabic-Speaking VIP Yacht Nurse. £60,000 tax-free, Mediterranean cruising. No agencies.

Do generic drugs compromise on quality? - Harvard Health

Generic drug quality is sometimes questioned, but studies largely show that these medications are equivalent in quality to their brand-name counterparts and are less expensive....

Harvard Health