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There’s no longer a question of when AI will become a regular part of working as a clinician—it already is. A survey from healthcare AI platform Heidi Health found that 86% of clinicians surveyed use the technology daily or on a regular basis, often for administrative tasks like charting.

However, more than 4 in 5 (83%) reported doing so without guidance from their employers. This could be leaving clinics, health systems, and other healthcare institutions vulnerable to HIPAA violations and cyberattacks, experts told Healthcare Brew.

“Healthcare is undergoing what I’d call an unmanaged AI transformation,” Steven Teppler, chief cybersecurity legal officer, partner, and chair of cybersecurity and data privacy at the law firm Mandelbaum Barrett, told us. “Clinicians discover the tools can be used, can save a meaningful amount of time, but the institutional governance surrounding that is lacking, and that’s where the legal, security, and patient safety issues start to come to the fore.”

Dive into the potential risks here.—MA

      

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Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital

Buckle up! Children’s hospitals may be in for a bumpy ride.

Rising costs, more chronically ill patients, and looming Medicaid cuts are straining pediatric hospitals across the country, all while the pediatric subspecialty workforce is shrinking. Experts tell Healthcare Brew these challenges are upping the need to develop innovative solutions to delivering care. 

“The outlook from an expense and labor side is challenging. So what that means is they have to get creative,” Matthew Vokes, a partner at consulting firm Mercer, told us. “You need to find ways to either get non-operating income or take costs out of care.”

Learn about the speed bumps ahead here.—CC

      

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You’ve heard of smartwatches and smart rings, but now it’s time to add health-based smart necklaces to the inventory.

Meet The90 Gem. It’s a necklace with a sleek, black circular pendant packed with sensors that measure solar radiation.

The device is part of a growing wearables market that seeks to tap into both skin health and aging wellness markets. Venture fund Rock Health reported in June that 46% of US adults own at least one wearable that tracks health information, including sleep to heart rate data—think Apple Watches or Oura rings. That’s up from 13% in 2015. You may even be wearing one right now. (Did you close your rings yet?)

Keep reading here.—CM

      

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Francis Scialabba

Today’s top healthcare reads.

Stat: 1,700. That’s how many HIV treatment sites closed after the Trump administration cut funding to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a global HIV prevention and treatment program. (New York Times)

Quote: “Despite state efforts at transparency and to eliminate pricing manipulation by PBMs, it’s alive and well in state Medicaid programs.”—Greg Reybold, VP of healthcare policy and general counsel at the American Pharmacy Cooperative, a buying group for pharmacies, on an Iowa state audit that suggests PBMs may be overcharging taxpayers (Stat)

Read: The Trump administration is following through on a plan to collect medical records of millions of federal workers, retirees, and their families. The Office of Personnel Management says some identifying information will be removed. (KFF Health News)

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• Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant Program at Loyola Medicine
• Associate Medical Director at NYC Health + Hospitals
• Medical Director at Sanitas Medical Center
• Director of Operations at Children’s Clinic PC