Scott Booher
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Fractional Healthcare CTO | Scaling & Maturing Healthcare Orgs | Minneapolis MN | https://hitreboot.com | #healthit
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Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'
July 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'
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Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed. www.wired.com/story/at-lea...
At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds
Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.
www.wired.com
July 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed. www.wired.com/story/at-lea...
“All it takes is people taking you seriously for you to be there,” says Lavingia. “The whole operation has always been done on Signal, so nothing actually has to change about that operationally for him to continue telling people what to do, getting reports, et cetera …"
This Is DOGE 2.0
Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.
www.wired.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“All it takes is people taking you seriously for you to be there,” says Lavingia. “The whole operation has always been done on Signal, so nothing actually has to change about that operationally for him to continue telling people what to do, getting reports, et cetera …"
“The Microsoft team used 304 case studies sourced from the New England Journal of Medicine to devise a test called the Sequential Diagnosis Benchmark. A language model broke down each case into a step-by-step process that a doctor would perform in order to reach a diagnosis."
Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors
The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.
www.wired.com
July 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“The Microsoft team used 304 case studies sourced from the New England Journal of Medicine to devise a test called the Sequential Diagnosis Benchmark. A language model broke down each case into a step-by-step process that a doctor would perform in order to reach a diagnosis."
The SXSW interview is worth a watch. Such an impressive CEO.
March 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The SXSW interview is worth a watch. Such an impressive CEO.
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“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡
Mike Johnson: "We're transitioning from Bidenomics and the terrible economy that was delivered by the last administration. It takes a while to turn that ship around."
March 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡
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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
"For a generation now, too many people have grown accustomed to the idea that the internet is just four big companies and a few others on the periphery, rather than its original promise of something that empowered users to control their own experiences."
Empowering Users, Not Overlords: Overcoming Digital Helplessness
Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, though all of it applies equally to other decentralized social media ecosys…
www.techdirt.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"For a generation now, too many people have grown accustomed to the idea that the internet is just four big companies and a few others on the periphery, rather than its original promise of something that empowered users to control their own experiences."
"R1 seemingly matches or beats OpenAI’s o1 model on certain AI benchmarks. And the company claims one of its models only cost $5.6 million to train, compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars that leading American companies pay to train theirs."
DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking | TechCrunch
Since Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an open version of its reasoning model R1 at the beginning of this week, many in the tech industry have been
techcrunch.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"R1 seemingly matches or beats OpenAI’s o1 model on certain AI benchmarks. And the company claims one of its models only cost $5.6 million to train, compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars that leading American companies pay to train theirs."
Through the collaboration, General Catalyst portfolio companies will use AWS’ services to build and roll out AI tools for health systems more quickly. #healthit
AWS and General Catalyst partner to speed up development of health-care AI tools
General Catalyst's portfolio companies, starting with Aidoc and Commure, will use AWS' services to build new artificial intelligence solutions.
www.cnbc.com
January 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Through the collaboration, General Catalyst portfolio companies will use AWS’ services to build and roll out AI tools for health systems more quickly. #healthit
Mark Cuban thinking out loud about healthcare. Always interesting perspectives.
A Few Words On Healthcare | blog maverick
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January 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Mark Cuban thinking out loud about healthcare. Always interesting perspectives.
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Wrote a thing about Meta's new content policies: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid:
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The Good, The Bad, And The Stupid In Meta’s New Content Moderation Policies
When the NY Times declared in September that “Mark Zuckerberg is Done With Politics,” it was obvious this framing was utter nonsense. It was quite clear that Zuckerberg was in the proce…
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January 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Wrote a thing about Meta's new content policies: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid:
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/08/t...
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While overdue, many organizations will be challenged with these (proposed) changes: "...requires that a risk analysis includes a comprehensive asset inventory and a network map showing how data flows into, within, and out of the organization, which must be updated at least annually." #hcit #healthit
A Look at Changes in the NEW HIPAA Security Rule
Proposed Changes Require Strong Cybersecurity The newly proposed changes to the 2013 HIPAA Security Rule published yesterday in the U.S. Federal Register inc
www.healthcareittoday.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
While overdue, many organizations will be challenged with these (proposed) changes: "...requires that a risk analysis includes a comprehensive asset inventory and a network map showing how data flows into, within, and out of the organization, which must be updated at least annually." #hcit #healthit
My take on this is that Apple sincerely thinks they are providing a cool feature, with a privacy-first implementation - but couldn't figure out how to explain the tech, and then punted on it. 'Homomorphic encryption?' 'OHTTP relays?' Good luck with explaining that to a consumer.
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My take on this is that Apple sincerely thinks they are providing a cool feature, with a privacy-first implementation - but couldn't figure out how to explain the tech, and then punted on it. 'Homomorphic encryption?' 'OHTTP relays?' Good luck with explaining that to a consumer.
Christina Farr: "...things have become borderline unhinged in VC land. I have been talking to a bunch of founders recently who have been telling me that investors will not meet with them if there’s no AI involved. Not even a first meeting!" #healthit #AI
There’s about to be a lot of AI capital incineration
Health care VCs are flocking to AI - and it’s all starting to feel a lot like crypto
secondopinion.media
December 7, 2024 at 3:55 PM
The GPT Era Is Already Ending
Something has shifted at OpenAI.
www.theatlantic.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Wow. The optics on this decision couldn’t be worse.
Doctors are raising alarm about insurance company’s plan to put time limit on coverage for anesthesia during surgery | CNN
Anesthesiologists are raising alarm about an insurance company’s plan to limit the amount time they cover for anesthesia used in surgeries and procedures. One major professional group of anesthesiolog...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Wow. The optics on this decision couldn’t be worse.