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Hidden biases, reduced privacy, and over-reliance on non-transparent, decision-making black boxes can cut against democratic values, potentially putting our civil rights at risk. This means that the effective and equitable use of AI will be based on solving inherent ethical, safety, data privacy and cybersecurity challenges.

  These are challenging times for health care, and particularly for women in health care. Consider that nearly 78% of the health care workforce is represented by women. When I look at the pressing challenges affecting health care today from inflation, shrinking margins, staffing shortages, turnover, and supply chain disruptions, I think about how these issues may be disproportionately affecting women. It can happen in a trickle-down effect and spur a vicious cycle where understaffing may le...

Oak Street Health teamed up with kidney care management company Interwell Health to create a joint venture called OakWell, which seeks to provide primary care to end-stage kidney disease patients directly in existing dialysis centers. End stage kidney disease patients spend upwards of 12 hours per week in dialysis centers — OakWell is meant to eliminate the barrier of attending separate, additional medical appointments.

About 28% of Americans consider themselves to be caregivers, and 22% are unpaid, according to a new survey from CVS Health and Harris Poll. These caregivers are facing financial and mental health struggles: 47% said that being a caregiver is a financial burden and 49% said their mental health suffers from being a caregiver.

Check out news from OUI Medical, Vital, Cognito Therapeutics and Reveal HealthTech.

Flare Therapeutics, EpiBiologics, and Mbiomics are among the biotech companies that recently unveiled new rounds of financing.

Conducted by researchers at the University of Colorado medical school, the new report is the latest to gauge the extent of a costly problem that federal regulators are working to solve: Information about doctors varies from provider directory to provider directory.

Alzheimer’s disease research at MIT spawned Cognito Therapeutics, a startup whose medical device uses light and sound to modulate electrical activity that supports brain health. The company’s Series B financing will support a Phase 3 test of its technology in patients with mild-to-moderate disease.

At the AHIP Medicare, Medicaid, Duals and Commercial Markets Forum held last week, two healthcare leaders from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and CVS Health stressed that reducing maternal health disparities is a top priority, with several strategies at play. For CMS, the focus is on encouraging states to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage, while CVS Health is working to leverage doulas in their care delivery.

Holon Solutions CEO Jon Zimmerman thinks more payers should invest in new technology to improve workloads for healthcare workers. The burnout crisis is too big for providers to solve by themselves, and many of the economic incentives for driving quality and efficiency in healthcare are housed within health plans and accountable care organizations, he said.