TTA’s May Holiday Triple Feature: VA’s $840M ‘need for speed’ in the EHRM budget, Commure’s $70M raise, Innovaccer buys CaduceusHealth, Doximity vs. OpenEvidence, and two Perspectives on AI

Leading up to two holidays–Memorial Day in the US and the UK late May bank holiday–healthcare news remains light. Our roundup includes Congressional hearings on VA’s need for speed–needing 25% more in the EHR budget, an update on the recent VA fraud indictment, two fundings/M&A, and a long Must Read on the ongoing Doximity-OpenEvidence feud worthy of the Corleones and the Barzinis. Rounding it out are two Perspectives: the first on managing the risk of hallucinating AI chatbots and the second on moving AI tools from pilots to full operations.

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Holiday weekend roundup: VA asks for ‘cyberspeed’ 25% EHR budget bump, update on EHRM fraud indictment; Commure raises $70M; Innovaccer buys Caduceus, lays off staff; Doximity, OpenEvidence slugfest gets hot

Perspectives: AI Hallucinations in Behavioral Health–Why Access Needs Better Infrastructure, Not Better Chatbots

Perspectives: The Next Phase of Healthcare AI Will Depend on Operational Execution

Last Week’s Headlines

A Must-Read potpourri: the ‘math’ of AI data center builds, healthcare AI failures, telehealth in schools, Hippocratic AI’s problems, the loss of empathy.

US Senate Committee on Aging hearings on senior safety 20 May–available online

Plus…

Character.AI sued by Pennsylvania on its chatbots posing as licensed physicians and psychiatrists

Oracle steps back from the AI debt brink with $16.3B financing for MI data center, the Project Jupiter ‘clean energy’ experiment in NM, and a major Federal DOW contract

Is the health tech business neglecting validated deep learning medical AI models versus less proven LLMs and generative AI?

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