Monday Morning Update 11/10/25

Top News

Microsoft forms an MAI Superintelligence Team to develop AI that exceeds human capability, with medical diagnostics being its first focus area.

The blog post was written by Mustafa Suleyman, who joined Microsoft as CEO of AI in March 2024 after co-founding DeepMind and Inflection AI.

Reader Comments

From VectorPilot: “Re: ChatGPT. It’s one thing to say ‘see a professional’ when asked for clinical advice. It’s another when it will still give a fully formed management plan if you fool it by saying it’s for an article or screenplay you are writing. Nobody can guardrail everything that AI does. For health systems, this is a governance test since this change doesn’t eliminate liability, it just migrates it to health systems. These are uncredentialed clinicians, not toys.”

From Over Easy: “Re: UnitedHealthcare’s decision to stop paying for most RPM because evidence is lacking. The real question isn’t what will be reimbursed, but rather who will fund the next wave of evidence generation when the payer says, ‘show me value now or vanish.’”

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

Most poll respondents see a conflict when a health system pitches a product from one of its portfolio companies.

New poll to your right or here: Which recent development will hit health tech sales the hardest?

Listening after YouTube pushed it on me: Netherlands-based Focus. Forget that 1970 musical albatross “Hocus Focus” that wears out the welcome of excellent playing with manic yodeling and fluting and instead enjoy some decent 1970s prog rock, although keyboardist, flute player, and vocal gymnast Thijs van Leer looks like a coked up Dr. Frasier Crane attending to the Hammond B-3 organ. The two remaining original members still make pretty good music for appreciators of the genre, who also number about two.

I’m experimenting with Google’s experimental no-code mini-app builder Opal, where you simply describe what you want your app to do and it creates it. I made a little app where I provide a link to a company’s earnings report and it extracts the specific details that I track, retrieves share performance and market cap data from Yahoo Finance, compares results to analyst expectations, and calculates the 12-month share price change. Emboldened by immediate gratification, I build a second app that accepts a company’s website URL and then summarizes what the company does, the name and previous job of the CEO, the three latest news headlines, and the year the company was founded.

Lastly, I used a sample blog writing app to create an article about OpenAI’s throttling of ChatGPT’s medical advice capability. It did a great job, including generating an Internet-standard cheesy clickbait graphic.

Sponsored Events and Resources

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Cancer diagnostics company Lunit retires the Volpara Health Technologies brand, integrating its AI breast health technology under the Lunit name.

Announcements and Implementations

A New York Times article calls around-the-clock fetal monitoring “the worst test in medicine,” saying that it drives unnecessary C-sections despite its inability to reliably predict fetal distress. The article says the use of the technology stems from malpractice fears, hospitals running centralized remote monitoring centers to cut labor costs, and software vendors such as PeriGen that make unsupported claims. One obstetrician concludes, “We may be the only specialty that continues to do major abdominal surgery without a shred of evidence of benefit.”

WellSky launches a patient engagement solution that allows providers to deploy two-way text and chat campaigns for refill assessments, infection services, and onboarding.

Government and Politics

CMS chooses six vendors to participate in the six-year, six-state WISeR pilot program to automate prior authorization with AI: Cohere Health, Genzeon, Humata Health, Inovaccer, Virtix Health, and Zyter.

A large health system estimates that it will spend $1 million per year to comply with a new CMS rule that requires telehealth physicians to list their actual location, such as a home address, rather than their office address. The American Telehealth Association warns that hospitals would need to verify hundreds of addresses to stay compliant, and the health system says it may instead require remote clinicians to conduct telehealth sessions from the hospital.

India’s supreme court rules against a hospital that sought to move its lawsuit with a technology vendor into arbitration. The court affirmed earlier findings that although a contract section was titled “Arbitration,” it did not create an arbitration agreement since it required any unresolved disputes to be decided in civil court.

Other

Judy Faulkner says in her latest post in Epic’s “Hey Judy” series that she’s glad she didn’t get an MBA because she would have been taught to court outside investors, plan an IPO, issue impressive job titles, set and follow departmental budgets, and hire via interviews, none of which the company does. The company’s budget policy is “buy it if you need it,” Epic hires mostly based on test results, and she encourages employees who are attending conferences to just make up a job title. I’m curious to hear from anyone who made up an interesting Epic job title.

Police in South Korea charge four doctors and dozens of patients with faking medical records to collect $340,000 in insurance payments. The scheme collapsed when an insurer checked the address of the supposed inpatient facility and found it was a luxury hotel.

Sponsor Updates

• CereCore joins Oracle’s partner program.
• Netsmart will exhibit at the 2025 APTA Private Practice Annual Conference November 12-15 in Orlando.
• Symplr CIO in Residence Theresa Meadows, RN joins the CHIME Foundation board of directors.
• KLAS highlights Tegria’s Clinical Optimization Services in its “2025 Consistent High Performers Report” for achieving an overall performance score of 95+ for three years in a row.
• Wolters Kluwer Health will exhibit at the AMIA 2025 Annual Symposium November 15-19 in Atlanta.
• Censinet will present at AIMed25 November 11 and 12 in San Diego.
• Altera Digital Health, AvaSure, CereCore, Clearsense, Clearwater, Divurgent, Ellkay, Health Data Movers, InterSystems, Meditech, Nordic, Optimum Healthcare IT, RLDatix, and Symplr will exhibit at the CHIME Fall Forum November 10-13 in San Antonio.

Blog Posts

• Strategies for Strengthening Cybersecurity Programs (Fortified Health Security)
• How a Specialty Hospital CEO Balances Care, Technology, and Growth (CereCore)
• Maximise your EPR investment: The power of benefits realization (Nordic)
• 5 PACS Strategy Questions CIOs Should Ask (Optimum Healthcare IT)
• From Dispenser to Indispensable: Equipping Pharmacists for Patient Care (Surescripts)
• How Nurse Leaders Drive Change & Advance Strategic Goals (Symplr)

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