For 35 years, Angela Jemmott and her five brothers paid premiums on a long-term care insurance policy for their 91-year-old mother. But the policy does not cover home health aides whose assistance allows her to stay in her Sacramento bungalow, near the friends and neighbors she loves. Her family pays $4,000 a month for that….
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AI chatbots perpetuate racial bias in health care: study
SAN FRANCISCO — As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors’ notes and analyze health records, a new study led by Stanford School of Medicine researchers cautions that popular chatbots are perpetuating racist, debunked medical ideas, prompting concerns that the tools could worsen health disparities for Black patients. Powered…
Financial well-being, health care affordability are top concerns for workers and…
Employers are showing greater concern over their workers’ financial well-being as well as their workers’ ability to afford health care. Those were among the takeaways from the Mercer 2023-24 Inside Employees Minds study, which was the topic of a recent webinar. This year marks the third edition of the study, which has been compiled in…
Health care price transparency could save Americans $1T annually
Fox News senior correspondent Alicia Acuna reports on a new survey which shows doctors’ appointments in metropolitan areas are hard to come by. EXCLUSIVE: Requiring price transparency from hospitals and insurance companies could drastically slash national health care costs and extend the average American life expectancy, according to a new report published by advocacy group…
Apple has plans to eventually, maybe revolutionize health care
By Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett | Bloomberg In 2011, a startup called Avolonte Health set up shop in a small office park in Palo Alto, California. The company operated out of a bland, two-story building bristling with security cameras. Engineers interviewing for jobs there weren’t even told what they’d be working on. Once new…
Symposium in Little Rock examines impact of technology on health care in Arkansa…
As president of Bioventures, the technology licensing office and business incubator based at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Dr. Kevin Sexton helps researchers in the health care field turn their ideas into startups. But at a symposium in Little Rock on Wednesday on the future of health care in Arkansas, Sexton also emphasized…
Access to health care is everyone’s business
In his regular weekly column in The Times Record, “From the Chamber,” my dear friend and colleague Cory King recently wrote about a serious health scare that thankfully was mitigated through early intervention and access to the exceptional health care providers and facilities in our community and state. Cory is the executive director of the…
Recognizing the connection between health care and legal services
A partnership between a south Minneapolis health care center and law firm has helped Minneapolis residents for almost 30 years now. Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC) opened in 1966, with University of Minnesota Medical School professors wanting to provide care to low-income community members, refugees and immigrants. Their partnership with Stinson, LLP started in 1993,…