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Really great story from @STAT's Katie Palmer this morning about what happens when the rubber meets the road when implementing #AI in a community hospital.

(#healthtech onlookers will be 👀 to see that this is at Summa, the hospital General Catalyst recently bought)

statnews.com/2025/07/09/ohio-h

STAT · This Ohio health system tested an AI tool to predict sepsis. Here's how it wentSumma Health's experience with Sepsis Watch shows the difficulties in implementing AI in a community hospital.

Last week, a ChatGPT-assisted LinkedIn post wrongly tagged me as the author of a story about the Microsoft "superintelligent" AI diagnosis agent.

I knew it was wrong...because I hadn't written my story yet.

Here's my story: Microsoft's study is getting attention for all the wrong reasons, experts say.

More @STAT:
statnews.com/2025/07/08/why-hy

STAT · Claims of Microsoft's ‘super-intelligent’ AI diagnosis agent miss the mark, say expertsHype around a Microsoft AI agent's ability to diagnose difficult cases misses the mark and overlooks real innovation, experts say.

A hospital hack has been linked to a patient’s death

Following a special review of a patient’s care conducted by a UK hospital, it was concluded that various factors had contributed to the patient’s death, among them a lengthy wait for the result of a blood test arising from the disruption caused by the cyberattack.

digitaltrends.com/computing/ho

Digital Trends · A hospital hack has been linked to a patient’s deathBy Trevor Mogg

DATE: June 24, 2025 at 03:30AM
SOURCE: DIGITALHEALTH.NET

TITLE: East Cheshire and Mid Cheshire trusts launch joint EPR

URL: digitalhealth.net/2025/06/east

East Cheshire NHS Trust and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation trust have gone live with a joint electronic patient record (EPR).

URL: digitalhealth.net/2025/06/east

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DATE: June 23, 2025 at 07:30PM
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.@medicarepayment sounds alarm over @MedicareGov physician pay #rates

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t.coMedPAC sounds alarm over Medicare physician pay ratesBy Mark McCarty

4 More States Caught Sharing Personal Health Data With Big Tech

State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for insurance, have been quietly sending visitors’ sensitive health information to Google and social media companies

kqed.org/news/12045084/4-more-

KQED · 4 More States Caught Sharing Personal Health Data With Big TechHealth care exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn.

Late last year, the FDA's #AI medical device counter hit 1,000 authorized devices. And then ...nothing.

There haven't been any updates to the list in the last 6 mo, even as the Trump admin moves to accelerate AI adoption.

@STAT found ≥167 unreported AI medical device approvals.

More:

statnews.com/2025/06/20/fda-ai

STAT · As AI device market grows, FDA's accounting goes silentAs the market for AI enabled medical devices grows, experts say there is less transparency around device approvals.

The FDA's AI, Elsa, can't even tell you who the FDA leadership is.

Despite being updated through April 2024, the AI exclusively listed leaders who have left the FDA, including 3 that retired in 2022-23 and one that left in 2021.

More on Elsa (& which version of Claude it uses), only at @STAT's AI Prognosis:

statnews.com/2025/06/04/fda-ar

STAT · FDA's AI tool, Elsa, is here. 'The stupidest big fuss they ever made'This is the web edition of STAT's AI Prognosis, our subscriber-exclusive newsletter.
#FDA#AI#health

DATE: June 02, 2025 at 03:30AM
SOURCE: DIGITALHEALTH.NET

TITLE: Barts Health deploys imaging de-identification tool

URL: digitalhealth.net/2025/06/bart

Barts Health NHS Trust has implemented Sectra’s Anonymise and Export functionality, which de-identifies medical images for research purposes.

URL: digitalhealth.net/2025/06/bart

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Digital Health · Barts Health deploys imaging de-identification toolBarts Health NHS Trust has implemented Sectra’s Anonymise and Export functionality, which de-identifies medical images for research purposes.

(I'm copying this from LinkedIn, from Sean Mullen, an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois. I'll link to Sean if it turns out he's also in the Fediverse. I've asked him.)

Two years later—and the cardiovascular damage from Long COVID is still measurable.

A new study tracked people with Long COVID two years after their initial infection. These weren’t isolated anecdotes. Researchers used gold-standard physiological tools—microneurography, echocardiography, vascular imaging, and cardiopulmonary exercise testing—to quantify what many patients have been describing all along.

The findings are not subtle:

1. Sympathetic Nervous System Overdrive
Participants with Long COVID had 77% more sympathetic nerve bursts than matched controls. That’s not “just anxiety”—that’s measurable autonomic dysregulation.

2. Vascular Dysfunction
Their arteries showed 26% lower flow-mediated dilation, a well-established marker of endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular risk.

3. Subclinical Heart Damage
Strain imaging revealed subtle impairments in cardiac function—often missed by routine exams but consistent with early-stage heart failure patterns.

4. Impaired Exercise Capacity
On a maximal effort test, Long COVID patients reached *21% lower oxygen uptake*, despite comparable effort. It wasn’t deconditioning. It was systemic impairment.

5. Cellular Markers of Injury and Stress
Blood tests revealed increased oxidative stress, lower antioxidant activity, and higher levels of extracellular vesicles from damaged endothelial cells.

Yes, the study had limitations:

* Small sample (18 Long COVID, 19 controls)
* Cross-sectional design (not causal)
* Focused only on those with severe acute COVID
* Did not include pulmonary function or key inflammatory mediators

But even with these limitations, the findings are consistent with a growing body of evidence:
Long COVID is not just about fatigue—it’s a multi-system condition with real, measurable physiological consequences.

Why does this matter?

Because the world continues to downplay or ignore this. And yet, the biological signals are loud. We cannot “walk this off.” We need research. We need scalable interventions.

One promising candidate?
IMST (Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training)
Just 5 minutes a day of breathing against resistance has shown promising results in reducing sympathetic overdrive and improving vascular health. It’s currently being tested in randomized trials for Long COVID.

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If you’re a clinician, researcher, or policy leader: This is your call to engage.
Let’s stop debating whether Long COVID is “real,” and start directing our attention—and funding—toward understanding and treating it.

I’m happy to connect with others working in this space. Thanks to Nathaniel Jenkins, PhD, FAHA for pointing out this important paper.

#LongCovid #CardiovascularHealth #PublicHealth #COVID19 #ExerciseScience #HealthTech #VascularHealth

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