🏥 @_daniel_payne, covering rural health and the Medicaid crisis, puts into words why it’s so hard for under-funded health systems to decide to implement AI, and why it won’t be a cure-all for budget and care woes: https://t.co/wqg9oldEUQ
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Trump officials say AI will help save rural health care. Some leaders in the field don’t believe it statnews.com
Medicare's AI prior authorization pilot was rushed and full of problems, new documents reveal statnews.com
An AI tool aims to catch harder-to-detect heart attacks in EKGs statnews.com
U.K. unveils recommendations for regulating AI in medicine statnews.com
ARPA-H to invest $62 million to develop FDA-authorized AI to help treat heart failure statnews.com
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📝 And as I covered yesterday, the Medicare AI prior authorization pilot, WISeR, was rushed and filled with problems, according to documents covering the first few months of the rollout. https://t.co/GXSxEavxFD
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- CMS launched its WISeR AI prior-authorization pilot in six states in January 2026 despite a vendor warning the launch date was unrealistic, per EFF FOIA records.
- Two vendors denied more than 20,000 requests in three months, and one request went unanswered for 83 days against CMS's 72-hour standard.
- WISeR contractors keep up to 20 percent of the savings on services they deny while facing only 5 to 10 percent payment penalties for poor quality scores.
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👸❣️The FDA gave a rare de novo approval to the “Queen of Hearts” algorithm for detecting STEMI heart attacks from EKGs, @KatieMPalmer announced last week: https://t.co/WwL675Jy8R
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- The FDA granted rare de novo authorization to Powerful Medical's Queen of Hearts, an AI ECG model for spotting STEMI and STEMI-equivalent heart attacks.
- In a retrospective U.S. registry of over 1,000 patients, the model caught 92% of true heart attacks on the first EKG versus 71% for standard triage.
- The false-alarm rate fell from roughly 42% to 8%, and the clearance carries an authorized Predetermined Change Control Plan for post-market updates.
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🇬🇧 A UK commission unveiled new guidelines for the regulation of AI in health care, writes STAT’s Europe correspondent @DrewQJoseph. https://t.co/AQ2LR2Avn3
❤️🤖 @mariojoze writes about ARPA-H’s $62 million effort to develop FDA-approved AI agents for heart failure: https://t.co/eMiNP00H8j
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