Hacker News with Generative AI: Healthcare

Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations (apnews.com)
Popular weight loss and diabetes drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have been added to Medicare’s list of medications that will be negotiated directly between the government and drug manufacturers, the Biden administration said Friday.

Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Government, Medicare

119 points by geox 14 hours ago | 147 comments

UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months (techcrunch.com)
Change Healthcare, the UnitedHealth-owned health tech company that lost more than 100 million people’s sensitive health data in a ransomware attack last year, said on Tuesday that the company has “substantially” completed notifying affected individuals about the massive data breach.

Data Breaches, Healthcare, Cybersecurity, UnitedHealth

7 points by blackeyeblitzar 2 days ago | 1 comments

UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% (fortune.com)
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%

Healthcare, Fraud, UnitedHealth, Cancer, Pricing

355 points by this_weekend 2 days ago | 305 comments

Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn't get more awful? They've gone villain mode (theguardian.com)
At this very moment Luigi Mangione, who is accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last month, is sitting in a federal jail cell in Brooklyn.

Healthcare, Crime, UnitedHealthcare

13 points by no_wizard 4 days ago | 9 comments

Singapore is turning to AI to care for its rapidly aging population (restofworld.org)
By 2030, one in four people in Singapore will be over the age of 65. Authorities see potential in AI tools to assist in preventive illness care. An AI tool under development will use voice biomarkers to detect early signs of depression in seniors.

Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Aging, Singapore

31 points by cellophanejane 4 days ago | 70 comments

Ministers mull allowing private firms to make profit from NHS data in AI push (theguardian.com)
Ministers are considering allowing private companies to make profits from NHS data as part of a push to revolutionise the health service using artificial intelligence, government officials have indicated.

Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Government Policy, Business

4 points by chrisjj 4 days ago | 0 comments

Chatham House Rule is suddenly everywhere in the Bay Area (sfstandard.com)
At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, starting Monday in San Francisco, 8,000 insurance providers, pharma investors, and execs from Open AI, Amazon, and Meta will announce mergers, discuss advances in AI diagnostics and gene therapies, and puzzle over FDA scrutiny and compliance issues. But many of the sessions and “what’s next” debates will follow the Chatham House Rule — a gag order that prevents attendees from attributing information to speakers or sharing names or affiliations of other guests.

Healthcare, Conferences, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Business

132 points by mrry 6 days ago | 252 comments

A Few Words on Healthcare (blogmaverick.com)
Healthcare is a very simple industry made complicated.

Healthcare, Opinion, Industry Analysis

12 points by jameal 7 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Kate's App (katesapp.org)
Kate's App is a tool created to support medical caregivers and the people they care for.

Healthcare, Software, Tools

160 points by bhpreece 9 days ago | 181 comments

2024 Shkreli Awards: Profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare (lowninstitute.org)
JANUARY 7, 2025 — Welcome to the 8th annual Shkreli Awards, the Lown Institute’s top ten list of the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare, named for the infamous “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli.

Healthcare, Awards, Profiteering, Dysfunction

13 points by kjhughes 10 days ago | 0 comments

Annual 'winners' for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced (theguardian.com)
The 2024 “winners” of the annual Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of profiteering and dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the Lown Institute, an independent healthcare thinktank.

Healthcare, Awards, United States, Profiteering

162 points by hkmaxpro 10 days ago | 103 comments

New CFPB Rule Removes Medical Bills from Credit Reports (health-plan-news.com)
In a major win for consumers, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized a rule that will strip an estimated $49 billion in medical debt from the credit reports of approximately 15 million Americans.

Consumer Finance, Credit Reporting, Healthcare

5 points by bhartzer 10 days ago | 0 comments

Human judgment must remain central to health insurance claims: California law (mercurynews.com)
Last year, about a quarter of all health insurance claims were denied in California — a reality mirrored nationwide that has stoked public anger toward health care companies, and led to accusations that such decisions lack human empathy.

Health Insurance, California Law, Healthcare, Consumer Advocacy

62 points by bentocorp 12 days ago | 37 comments

'It didn't use to be like this': woeful US healthcare system (theguardian.com)
Since the fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, polarised discussions about the US health insurance system have not abated, with thousands of Americans continuing to share their struggles in having their healthcare covered.

Healthcare, United States, Social Issues

30 points by howard941 13 days ago | 28 comments

Her Treatment Was Helping. That's Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage (propublica.org)
Moore, 32, had spent much of the past eight months in treatment for severe depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety when BCBS said it would no longer pay for the program in January.

Health Insurance, Mental Health, Healthcare, Insurance Coverage, Patient Advocacy

68 points by impish9208 14 days ago | 45 comments

Building an Agentic AI System at Doctolib (medium.com)
At Doctolib, our mission goes beyond building the healthcare we all dream of — we’re transforming how health professionals and patients interact with technology.

Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Technology

11 points by malkins 15 days ago | 9 comments

Insurers rely on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts (propublica.org)
In a New Orleans courtroom one afternoon this April, three federal appeals court judges questioned a lawyer for the country’s largest health insurance company.

Healthcare, Law, Insurance

167 points by ceejayoz 19 days ago | 246 comments

Brave Care Has Closed (bravecare.com)
It is with heavy hearts that we share Brave Care has permanently closed its doors.

Healthcare, Startups, Business

71 points by godisdad 19 days ago | 155 comments

NHS to begin world-first trial of AI tool to identify type 2 diabetes risk (theguardian.com)
The NHS in England is launching a world-first trial of a “gamechanging” artificial intelligence tool that can identify patients at risk of type 2 diabetes more than a decade before they develop the condition.

Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, England

3 points by voisin 20 days ago | 0 comments

Dexterity assessment of hospital workers: prospective comparative study (bmj.com)
The Tremor study found that surgeons on average were quicker and more successful at completing the buzz wire game within five minutes compared with other hospital staff roles; although, they were more likely to swear while completing the task.

Medicine, Healthcare, Research, Science, Human Performance

31 points by bkudria 21 days ago | 10 comments

Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs? (seangeiger.substack.com)
Two people with identical cancers - same type, same stage, same tumor size, same location - walk into different hospitals. This cancer has been studied extensively through clinical trials, case studies, and meta-analyses. There are experts worldwide who have dedicated decades to studying and treating this type of cancer. If you gathered all these experts in one room, they would agree on an evidence-based course of treatment (or further tests) for either patient.

Healthcare, Medical Guidelines, Cancer Treatment

301 points by huerne 25 days ago | 156 comments

The High Price of Doctors: A Disease of Regulation (2013) (betonit.ai)
What’s driving the high price of doctors: market inequality or government entry restrictions? My co-bloggers’ debate reminds me of a random encounter with some striking evidence: The Digest of Education Statistics‘ Table 294.

Economics, Healthcare, Regulation

10 points by paulpauper 25 days ago | 5 comments

'United Healthcare' using DMCA against Luigi Mangione images (abovethelaw.com)
Someone purporting to be United Healthcare is filing DMCA requests to scrub the internet of artists’ depictions of the surveillance video of Luigi smiling, parody merchandise of “Deny, Defend, Depose,” and other merchandise showing the alleged shooter.

Copyright Law, Lawsuits, Healthcare, Social Media, Parody

385 points by haunter 26 days ago | 240 comments

Stem cells head to the clinic: treatments for cancer, diabetes and Parkinson's (nature.com)
More than 100 clinical trials put stem cells for regenerative medicine to the test. It’s a turning point for a field beset with ethical and political controversy.

Stem Cells, Medicine, Healthcare, Clinical Trials, Ethical Issues

13 points by LinuxBender 27 days ago | 1 comments

Cory Doctorow wrote a prescient novella about health insurance and murder (theguardian.com)
Five years ago, the science fiction writer Cory Doctorow published a short story whose plot might seem eerily similar to followers of the past few weeks’ news.

Science Fiction, Healthcare, Social Commentary, Current Events

16 points by ethagnawl 28 days ago | 1 comments

'United Healthcare' Using DMCA Against Luigi Mangione Images (abovethelaw.com)
Someone purporting to be United Healthcare is filing DMCA requests to scrub the internet of artists’ depictions of the surveillance video of Luigi smiling, parody merchandise of “Deny, Defend, Depose,” and other merchandise showing the alleged shooter.

Copyright, Lawsuits, Healthcare, Art, Surveillance

12 points by miles 29 days ago | 2 comments

American doctors hate the health care system almost as much as you do (vox.com)
Doctors share many of the same frustrations with US health care as their patients do.

Healthcare, Doctors, United States

6 points by rntn 29 days ago | 0 comments

Family sues Amazon One Medical after death followed a virtual appointment (msn.com)

Healthcare, Lawsuits, Amazon, Telemedicine, Virtual Care

5 points by impish9208 30 days ago | 1 comments

Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (pluralistic.net)
Operating a business is risky: you can't ever be sure how many customers you'll have, or what they'll show up looking for. If you guess wrong, you'll either have too few workers to serve the crowd, or you'll pay workers to stand around and wait for customers. This is true even when your "business" is a "hospital."