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On Wednesday, February 7th, the House endorsed a bill banning the use of Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) calculations in some federal health programs. Disabilities activists, who have long called QALY calculations discriminatory, see this as a positive moment, but it also raises questions on how to evaluate drug treatments’ value. A QALY is a
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From the ACA to abortion, Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Nikki Haley are confronting some of the most contentious healthcare topics and programs. Let’s take a look at what each of their potential presidencies might look like. Donald Trump Once again, Trump is on the campaign trail, promising, among other things, to repeal the
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It would be nice to believe that the market forces of laissez-faire capitalism would bring down skyrocketing healthcare costs–but it won’t. The unique structure of American health systems actually aids free-market capitalism in raising hospitals’ prices. Let’s break down why that is. How Hospital Costs Work Each of the nearly 1,000 private health insurance companies
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HHS released a playbook for trustworthy artificial intelligence in healthcare. Here are its ABCs, expanded upon and defined: (A)ccountability Policies should outline governance and who is held responsible for all aspects of the AI solution (e.g., initiation, development, outputs, decommissioning) (B)uilding an Algorithm Humans can introduce bias when training an algorithm by selecting parameters that
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Many factors of health lie outside of individuals’ behaviors and genetic endowments, and instead within their environments. The contexts in which patients (people) reside are collectively known as Social Determinants of Health (SDHs). These contexts are not distributed randomly through probabilistic mechanisms, however; rather, they are shaped by historical injustices and their contemporary, institutionalized structures.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, state emergency orders allowed physicians to practice medicine across state lines using telemedicine. That meant that a physician in one state could consult a physician in another, or that a patient stuck in quarantine on vacation could consult their regular doctor. As these orders expire, however, it leaves many physicians, and
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Any discussion of social equity and justice requires positioning health as a key concern. Health is, after all, a social consideration. To discuss justice without health equity is a grave omission, as health is never in isolation: it is a core tenet of the rest of our lives, both individual and social. But to understand
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Join us for a frank discussion of obesity and fatness with guest interviewer Zara Alam. Transcript below. Between 1500 and 1800, scurvy killed more people than shipwrecks, syphilis, and warfare combined. The thing is, a cure was already known. Remedies as simple as oranges and limes was proven to cure scurvy by the British Dr.
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What are some examples of generative AI/what is it? Generative AI is any AI that uses real-world data to generate new content, whether it be text for patient EHRs, enhancements of medical imaging, or synthetic data to train itself or others. Popular chatbots and text-to-art generators include ChatGPT and DALL-E 2. Generative AI has been
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