Alexis Kayser
Healthcare Editor at Newsweek
For the sake of the story. Healthcare reporter covering leadership, strategy, policy and exec moves @beckershr. @slu_official alum.
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6 days ago |
newsweek.com | Alexis Kayser
Happy National Nurses Week! Now through May 12, several restaurants and food chains are offering freebies to show their appreciation. Click here for the rundown (and thanks for all you do, RNs!)I'm writing this on the one-year anniversary of my role at Newsweek, and thus, the one-year anniversary of my deep dive into health care AI. To commemorate the occasion, I'll let you in on a secret: No topic has intrigued me more than AI, and no topic has made me internally groan more.
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1 week ago |
newsweek.com | Alexis Kayser
Clinical trials are facing a crisis amid growing delays, diminishing success rates and rising costs. Companies across the stakeholder spread are investing in AI to ease some of the longstanding operational challenges-but new threats of federal funding cuts are raising questions that tech alone can't answer. On May 2, the White House unveiled a budget proposal that would cut funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by nearly $18 billion.
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1 week ago |
newsweek.com | Alexis Kayser
There's a new type of AI bot on the block-and this time, it's completely autonomous. AI agents are steadily making their way into the public consciousness as more companies release them. Last year, generative AI was all the rage, producing ambient scribes that could transcribe a conversation into clinical notes and in-box bots that could draft responses to patients' MyChart messages.
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1 week ago |
newsweek.com | Alexis Kayser
Newsweek is hosting a virtual panel discussion "Health Care and AI Governance: Making it Safe, Smart and Scalable," on May 20 at 2:15 p.m. Click here to register for free. I hope to see you there!Today is May 1, the first day of National Cancer Research Month. For this special edition of Access Health, I connected with some of the nation's leading oncology experts and asked them to take us into their world. I found good news and bad news on this foray. I'll start with the good news.
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1 week ago |
newsweek.com | Alexis Kayser
Zocdoc-the digital platform that helps patients find doctors and book medical appointments-is unveiling an AI assistant today to make that process even easier. The AI agent named "Zo" can handle unlimited scheduling calls from patients, and is trained to speak naturally and conversationally as a human call center employee would. Only about half of patients are satisfied with the service at their health care provider's call center, according to a 2023 survey of 200 senior leaders.
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