The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has given a federal court the clearest look yet at the number of probationary workers fired under the Trump administration, and how many have been reinstated so far, but fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employees say they have still not been contacted or provided a status update on their employment.
The HIMSS Electronic Health Record (EHR) Association has responded to the proposed HIPAA Security Rule update by urging the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to factor in EHR developer company time when determining compliance timelines and requirements to ensure that EHR developers can effectively meet expectations without disrupting essential health IT services.
In a survey of more than 1000 Americans, nearly three-quarters gave the US health care system a grade of C or lower, highlighting widespread dissatisfaction with costs, access, and government regulation. Results from eHealth’s 2025 Healthcare Pulse Survey showed a rough bell curve of grades from respondents. According to the report, individuals covered by Medicaid had a more favorable view of the current health care system than those with employer-based coverage and were more likely to give the higher grades.
Top executives at the country’s largest for-profit health systems say they’re keeping the pressure on policymakers to preserve government health coverage in upcoming budget decisions but concede that some cost-cutting adjustments are likely and will require flexibility from providers. In policy-heavy fireside chats held as part of this week’s Barclays Annual Global Healthcare Conference, the CEOs of HCA Healthcare and Tenet Healthcare acknowledged the broad uncertainty surrounding Medicare, Medicaid and the impending expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits.
A paper published March 14 in JAMA Health Forum suggests that an open-source AI tool can perform as well as a proprietary closed-source model on complex diagnoses. This is significant, the researchers say, because “institutions may be able to deploy high-performing custom models that run locally without sacrificing data privacy or flexibility.” The challenger open-source AI tool called Llama 3.1 405B performed on par with GPT-4, a leading proprietary closed-source model, on 92 mystifying cases featured in the New England Journal of Medicine weekly rubric of diagnostically challenging clinical scenarios.
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