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UMC has been able to keep its ER open, but other services have been disrupted.

ChatGPT and other large language models enable a new level of patient empowerment in their care, such as navigating questions about their diagnosis, insurance benefits and cost, says Dr. Chethan Sarabu, AI & informatics strategist at OpenNotes.

Denial rates have steadily increased, with providers seeing rejection rates as high as 10% to 15%.

Christopher Ahn, biomedical engineer supervisor at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs in Dayton, Ohio, developed a chatbot called the Healthcare Technology Large language Model that allows clinicians to query the chatbot rather than carrying around service manuals or scrolling through a pdf, Ahn says.

The focus will be on ensuring rural communities have access to primary care, emergency services and specialty care.

CHAI has formed five working groups for best practices to build out an assurance standards guide. Later this fall it will announce a model card to align health systems, payers and IT companies, says Dr. Brian Anderson, cofounder and CEO.

The rise in chronic disease among the elderly is driving up healthcare costs, putting pressure on Medicare and other payer systems.

Insurance companies and PBMs set the price of drugs paid at the pharmacy counter, says CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen.

The question becomes not whether AI can predict disease, but what physicians should tell patients, ethically, such as their chances of getting cancer, says Dr. Lukasz Kowalczyk, a physician at Colorado-based Peak Gastroenterology Associates.  

The two organizations are also growing their healthcare services to support Florida's veterans and service members.