Health Journalists Visit Conservative Georgia District and Weigh AI Bioweapon Threat
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
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Rural Americans Wait After Judge Delivers Mixed Ruling on Digital Equity Dollars
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump can鈥檛 unilaterally kill the $2.75 billion Digital Equity Act, but he also sided with the administration by saying using race as a factor in awarding the grants is unconstitutional. The split decision has halted digital-skills programs for ethnic and racial minorities.
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Democrats Demand Trump Administration Halt Collection of Patients’ ER Records
Senate and House Democrats say the Trump administration鈥檚 plan to collect patients鈥 medical data violates privacy and will discourage people from seeking medical care.
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With Midterms Looming, Journalists Consider Measles, Food Recalls, and Obamacare
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
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Gounder Brings Clarity to Egg Freezing, AI Virus Creation, and New Trump Vaccine Order
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News editor-at-large for public health C茅line Gounder made several TV appearances recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a roundup.
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Readers Speak Out on Work Requirements, Federal Data Grab, Opioid Payback Cash
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
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Patients Wary of Governments, Companies Pushing AI as a Rural Healthcare Solution
The $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation Program is set to flood rural America with new AI health tools. That鈥檚 despite little evidence on whether health-related AI can improve access to care and patient health in those communities.
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AI Is Being Used to Boost Medicaid Enrollment, but Not Without Concerns
Ahead of Medicaid work requirements, a health plan in California hopes to stanch the number of people losing coverage by using an AI program to schedule appointments and remind enrollees to fill out paperwork. The plan says it can do the work of 40 employees at a fraction of the cost.
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Trump Administration Demands Hospitals Share Emergency Room Records
The tiny federal agency that tracks consumer product safety is pressuring hospitals to turn over patient records from emergency room visits, including about injuries that have nothing to do with consumer products.
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A Deloitte-Run System Denied Medicaid Benefits for Michigan鈥檚 Disabled. Now Trump鈥檚 Law Piles On.
Complex computer systems that decide whether people, including the disabled, get Medicaid benefits have a history of errors. Now changes to comply with Trump鈥檚 signature tax and domestic policy law are inundating those systems.
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Medicare鈥檚 AI Push Snarls Patients and Doctors in Errors and Delays
Medicare is testing the use of artificial intelligence to preapprove several healthcare services. Federal health officials say prior authorization can help reduce fraud and contain costs. But doctors and patients describe the trial as 鈥渉orrendous鈥 and full of red tape so far.
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Trump鈥檚 Medicaid Work Rules Force States To Scrap Plans and Rework Systems
Health experts and advocates for low-income people say federal rules implementing President Donald Trump鈥檚 new Medicaid work requirements upend months of work by state governments to prepare the computer systems that determine who鈥檚 eligible for benefits.
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At a Tennessee Hospital, a Nurse Stole Fentanyl and AI Missed It, State Records Say
Sentri7, drug diversion software powered by artificial intelligence and used at hundreds of U.S. hospitals, did not catch a months-long string of fentanyl thefts in Tennessee in 2025, according to a state document.
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Trump and Kennedy Seek To Relax Safeguards for AI Healthcare Tools
For years, the Department of Health and Human Services built standards to make sure electronic health records were user-friendly and offered transparent advice to doctors. Now they鈥檙e relaxing those standards, and doctors and critics in the hospital industry are worried.
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Listen: A Federal Agency Is After Workers’ Health Data, and Critics Are Alarmed
The Trump administration is seeking unprecedented access to medical records of federal workers and retirees, and their families. The data could be used to implement cost-saving measures, but it would also give the administration access to reams of personal information. Legal experts and insurers say the pursuit is overbroad.
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Big Companies Position Themselves for Payday From $50B Federal Rural Health Fund
A $50 billion federal fund is supposed to modernize rural health with electronic health records, AI, telehealth, and more. But community clinics and rural health advocates fear that the contractors administering the money for states will bite off a big chunk before it reaches rural patients.
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Gounder Culls the News, From Ticks and AI to Who Might Lead CDC
杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News journalists made the rounds on national or local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
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Democrats Demand Trump Administration Halt Plan To Collect Federal Workers鈥 Health Data
After 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News reported that the Trump administration is seeking federal workers鈥 medical records, Democratic lawmakers are insisting that the Office of Personnel Management drop its request.
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Your New Therapist: Chatty, Leaky, and Hardly Human
With high demand for mental health care, a wave of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are being marketed as therapy apps 鈥 with little evidence they work and few regulations.
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Listen: With Little Federal Regulation, States Are Left To Shape the Rules on AI in Health Care
As artificial intelligence embeds itself into health care, some physicians and patient advocates worry it could be used by insurance companies to refuse payment for care. Maryland passed one law banning AI from acting alone on a denial. Meanwhile, Virginia鈥檚 then-governor vetoed that state鈥檚 attempt at regulating AI in health insurance.