EHR companies push deregulation. Microsoft exec pushes back
In this edition of STAT's Health Tech newsletter: EHR companies' push for deregulation faces resistance from Microsoft.
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HHS quiet on nondiscrimination rule
Last year, the Biden administration issued a final rule clarifying that clinical decision support tools, including some using AI, should not discriminate against patients based on traits like age, sex, race, and disability. That rule is supposed to go into effect for federally-funded health systems today, May 1, but as Katie Palmer reports, the systems are in limbo owing to lack of clarity about how to comply with the rule. The Trump administration has been hostile to anything with that sounds like it might be related to DEI, and early on, it removed from health department websites information about the rule. Read more here
