Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I am not an artificial intelligence skeptic or pessimist. I am confident that AI will improve healthcare, and I look forward to seeing how. I’ve been following the general conversations and have been particularly interested in AI’s potential to improve diagnostic performance. Two good reads are here and here. I do not think that we can yet really imagine how we will incorporate AI into our practice in five or ten years.

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Science Based Medicine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Some thoughts as we complete our 15th year of science-based medicine. The post SBM in 2023 first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

On November 28, 2023, the California Office of Health Care Affordability (“OHCA”) submitted proposed emergency regulations (the “Regulations”) on the reporting of certain transactions involving health care entities for review by the California Office of Administrative Law, the final step in the regulation process. The final Regulations, reflecting changes in response to public comments and those proposed by the Office of Administrative Law, were released on December 18, 2023, and will apply as o

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2023

At the end of each year since I launched the Health Populi blog, I have put my best forecasting hat on to focus on the next year in health and health care. For this round, I’m firmly focused on the key noun in health care, which is the patient – as consumer, as Chief Health Officer of the family, as caregiver, as health citizen. As my brain does when mashing up dozens of data points for a “trendcast” such as this, I’ll start with big picture/macro on the economy to the microeconomics of health c

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