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How Did the AI “Claude” Get Its Name?

2 weeks ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Mike Magee

By MIKE MAGEELet me be the first to introduce you to Claude Elwood Shannon. If you have never heard of him but consider yourself informed and engaged, including at the interface of AI and Medicine, don’t be embarrassed. I taught a semester of “AI and Medicine” in 2024 and only recently was introduced to “Claude.”Let’s begin with the fact that the product, Claude, is not the same as the person, Claude.
Waste, Fraud and Abuse - Oh, My!

3 weeks ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Kim Bellard

By KIM BELLARDSo the House has passed their “big, beautiful bill,” by the narrowest of margins. Crucial to the bill are large savings from Medicaid, which in past years Republicans would have taken some glee from but now they are careful to explain away as just cutting “waste, fraud and abuse,” having finally realized that many MAGA voters depend on Medicaid.
I’m Sensing Some Future

3 weeks ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Kim Bellard

By KIM BELLARDOne of my frequent laments is that here we are, a quarter of the way into the 21st century, yet too much of our health care system still looks like the 20th century, and not enough like the 22nd century. It’s too slow, too reactive, too imprecise, and uses too much brute force. I want a health care system that seems more futuristic, that does things more elegantly.
High-Profile Start-Ups Inato And Prenosis Show AI ‘Best Practice’

1 month ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Michael Millenson

By MICHAEL MILLENSONTreating artificial intelligence as just one ingredient in a business success recipe was a prominent theme at the MedCity INVEST 2025 conference, with this AI “best practice” advice epitomized by high-profile start-ups Inato and Prenosis. “You need to build a business model that makes sense, then use AI,” cautioned Raffi Boyajian, principal at CIGNA Ventures and a panelist at the MedCity INVEST 2025 conference in Chicago.
How Bright A Light Do We Shine This Memorial Day?

1 month ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Mike Magee

By MIKE MAGEE According to Veterans Administration historians, the origin of Memorial Day dates back to 1864 when three women from Boalsburg, Pennsylvania joined in grief to decorate the graves of family members who had died in the Civil War. A year later, other townspeople joined in and one year later, in 1866, women in Columbus, Mississippi, joined the event, in honor of fallen Confederate soldiers. That was 14 years after the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabinin 1852.
How to Buy and Sell AI in health care? Not Easy.

1 month ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Matthew Holt

By MATTHEW HOLTIt was not so long ago that you could create one of those maps of health care IT or digital health and be roughly right. I did it myself back in the Health 2.0 days, including the old sub categories of the “Rebel Alliance of New Provider Technologies” and the “Frontier of Patient Empowerment Technologies”But those easy days of matching a SaaS product to the intended user, and differentiating it from others are gone.
And Now for Some Fun Future

1 month ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Kim Bellard

By KIM BELLARDI feel like I’ve been writing a lot about futures I was pretty worried about, so I’m pleased to have a couple developments to talk about that help remind me that technology is cool and that healthcare can surely use more of it. First up is a new AI algorithm called FaceAge, as published last week in The Lancet Digital Health by researchers at Mass General Brigham. What it does is to use photographs to determine biological age – as opposed to chronological age.
A Proud Republican Who Faced Off A Party Leader. . .and Won!

1 month ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Mike Magee

By MIKE MAGEEThis past week, Trump’s posting of himself as The Pope surfaced once again David French’s classic Christmas, 2024, New York Times column titled “Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel?”As I wrote at the time, “French and his wife and three children have experienced the cruelty first hand since he openly expressed his opposition to Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential campaign.
Medicaid Should be Abolished. But Not Like This!

1 month ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Matthew Holt

By MATTHEW HOLTA long time ago in a different country, there was a landslide election from a population looking for change. And change they got. Americans had been campaigning for national health care since 1917. There had been failures in 1933 and 1946 and 1961. But in 1965 they got it. Sort of. But a weird thing happened in the Congress. Out of the political sausage making came a plan that “Cared” for those over 65. While another plan came out that “Aid”ed the poor.
Medicaid Should be Abolished. But Not Like This!

1 month ago | thehealthcareblog.com | Matthew Holt

By MATTHEW HOLTA long time ago in a different country, there was a landslide election from a population looking for change. And change they got. Americans had been campaigning for national health care since 1917. There had been failures in 1933 and 1946 and 1961. But in 1965 they got it. Sort of. But a weird thing happened in the Congress. Out of the political sausage making came a plan that “Cared” for those over 65. While another plan came out that “Aid”ed the poor.