☀️ le Chat, a ChatGPT rival

Plus: Spotlight of Dr. Sachin H. Jain, CEO Scan Group and Health Plan

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Kaushee Ganeshan
February 27, 2024

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Welcome to your briefing:

  • AI ROUNDUP: Why healthcare lags on AI, per Amazon

  • INDUSTRY ROUNDUP: Horse sedative use among humans spreads in deadly mixture of Tranq and Fentanyl

  • WELLNESS BYTES: The longest-living people in the world all abide by the power 9 rule

  • INSIGHTS CORNER: Leader Spotlight Dr. Sachin H. Jain, CEO Scan Group and Scan Health Plan

  • TRIVIA: Which AI innovation is being explored to track and predict cognitive decline and brain aging in neurodegenerative and mental health conditions?

AI ROUNDUP

WATCH THIS

I've been a long-time fan of Jordan Wilson's work, the host of 'Everyday AI,' a daily podcast that is live-streamed on LinkedIn

Although the conversation with Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, took place a few weeks back, I found it to be very insightful.

Check it out. Hope you enjoy it.

Maximizing the Effectiveness of AI in Health Care -- An Everyday AI Chat

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  • Why healthcare lags on AI, per Amazon (Read More)

  • How AI healthcare chatbots learn from the questions of an Indian women’s organization (Read More)

  • The healthcare AI question no one wants to answer (Read More)

  • The potential benefits of AI for healthcare in Canada (Read More)

  • The secret link between health IT transformation, AI, and cybersecurity (Read More)

  • Mistral AI releases new model to rival GPT-4 and its own chat assistant le Chat (Read More)

  • VA puts AI use cases into operational phase to meet its healthcare mission (Read More)

  • US Justice Department names first AI officer (Read More)

  • Startup uses AI to develop vaccines for future pandemics (Read More)

  • Generative AI's next act: Autonomous agents (Read More)

INDUSTRY ROUNDUP

  • FDA: Do not use smartwatches or smart rings to measure blood glucose Levels (Read More)

  • Highmark Health says it’s combining tech from Google and Epic to give doctors easier access to information (Read More)

  • At ViVE 2024, Panelists share prior authorization progress and frustration in payer insights program (Read More)

  • Where 10 top-rated heart centers stand financially: Moody's (Read More)

  • Ransomware attack blamed for Change Healthcare outage stalling US prescriptions (Read More)

  • Horse sedative use among humans spreads in deadly mixture of Tranq and Fentanyl (Read More)

  • Health package talks break down amid broader spending feud (Read More)

WELLNESS BYTES

  • When is forgetting normal, and when is it worrisome? A neuroscientist weighs in (Read More)

  • I’m 58 but have a biological age of 21 – this is how I did it (Read More)

  • The longest-living people in the world all abide by the power 9 rule (Read More)

INSIGHTS CORNER

Leader Spotlight

This week we asked him five questions

From your journey in healthcare, what critical insights have guided your vision for transforming healthcare delivery in the era of digital and AI advancements?

Let me start by saying that I’m actually not a fan of the word “innovation.” I tell you that because it informs my attitude when it comes to using new technologies to transform healthcare. Simply put, too often people get excited about adopting new technologies for their own sake. What should guide transformation in healthcare is not the technology itself, but what I call “radical common sense”—which is to say, making a meaningful difference in the lives of patients.

Drawing from 'The 10 Lessons About Healthcare I Learned From My Dad' article, how do you apply the pearls of wisdom to strike a balance between innovation and advancement, all while prioritizing the individual's well-being?

As I wrote, my dad loved new technologies and was eager to adopt them. As an anesthesiologist, he was among the first to use CT scans to precisely deliver nerve-destroying medicines to specific pain-causing nerves. But he had a remarkable command of anatomy. He really was a terrific scientist at heart. And he understood that technology was only valuable insofar as it was deployed by people with genuine expertise and a dedication to healing.

As healthcare shifts from facilities to home-based, remote, and virtual settings, how do you see AI's role and the benefits it offers to patients and the healthcare ecosystem?

I think there’s a tremendous opportunity to use AI when it comes to extending patient care into different settings. A great example is a technology designed by SafelyYou, which is a company SCAN made a strategic investment in. Their AI-augmented pattern recognition technology detects falls, immediately contacts care staff when a fall occurs, and then uses data from the circumstances that led to the fall so care staff can prevent it from recurring. That technology can be deployed in all kinds of residential circumstances.

With the new CMS ruling on prior authorization and data exchange, how can AI be strategically leveraged for both speed and equity in processing, especially for diverse and underserved populations?

I think anything we can do to increase the speed of processing claims and getting the people the care they need is worth doing. I’ve seen a lot of opportunities to use AI in claims. At SCAN, we’ve actually used it successfully for several years to look for signs that a member might have an ailment that needs to be addressed in order to prevent hospitalization. In terms of diverse and underserved populations, I wouldn’t single them out—they should have access to the same cutting-edge technologies as everyone else. That’s what we mean when talk about making healthcare more equitable.

What advice would you give to emerging leaders in healthcare seeking to make a significant impact in the field?

Chase patient health above everything else. Too many people who enter the business side of healthcare get distracted by the shiny lights of technology and profit. This is healthcare, and our fundamental role is to keep people healthy and to leverage every tool available to us to further those aims.

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More about Dr. Sachin H. Jain

Dr. Sachin H. Jain, CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plans, which serves more than 300,000 members across California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico.

Previously, Dr. Jain was President and CEO of CareMore and Aspire Health, which served 200,000 Medicare and Medicaid patients in 32 states.

He also served as Chief Medical Information & Innovation Officer at Merck & Co.

Dr. Jain was Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and was the first Deputy Director for policy and programs at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).

Dr. Jain graduated from Harvard College and earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and is a member of the boards of Cue Health and Biofourmis.

AI TRIVIA

Which AI innovation is being explored to track and predict cognitive decline and brain aging in neurodegenerative and mental health conditions?

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