Government & Policy

Also, a free virtual women's health clinic is being set up in Victoria.

Over the years, Western Health, one of the largest health services in Victoria, has consolidated 25 different systems into one, says digital health division director Lily Liu.

"Health IT has always been a nonpartisan area for policymakers, so I expect that will largely remain the case," says longtime policy expert Leigh Burchell.

It recently launched the Indian Genomic Dataset, which currently has 10,000 sequenced genomes from the local population.

HHS nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says show me the data; senators say it's already there.

Luke Rutledge, president of Homecare Homebase, says a 0.5% payment increase in the rule does not meet demands of the inflation rate and staffing.

While the president's pick for Health and Human Services Secretary awaits his nomination hearing, acting director Dr. Dorothy Fink issued a "pause on issuing documents and public communications," including social media, to all department heads.

Inequities that already exist in the healthcare system, and may be amplified by LLMs, could be addressed through the proving ground of artificial intelligence assurance labs, according to Brigham Hyde, CEO of Atropos Health.

"Health systems have reason to worry," says consultant Michael Abrams of Numerof.

Project Stargate includes a partnership between Oracle's Larry Ellison, OpenAI's Sam Altman and SoftBank's Masayoshi Son that aims to enhance cancer detection and personalized vaccines.