Morning Headlines 2/19/25
FDA cuts hit AI division, even as Trump invests in the technology
Report says that FDA has laid off many AI and digital health employees who were involved in healthcare AI regulation.
Ex-Palantir Veteran to Run Data, IT Security for RFK Jr.’s Health Department
HHS appoints Clark Minor, a Palantir software executive, as CIO.
Out-of-network price platform vendor MultiPlan changes its name to Claritev.
Ohio Becomes First State to Require Hospitals to Publish Prices
A new Ohio law prohibits hospitals that don’t post their prices publicly, as required by the federal government, from collecting medical debt and filing negative credit reports against patients.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.