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Skyral, a London-based modeling and simulation startup developing AI-based digital twin tech for defense, healthcare, and other sectors, raised a $20M Series A (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/04/uk-based-sk

UK-based Skyral raises $20M Series A to expand modelling and simulation tech globally
British modelling and simulation startup Skyral has secured $20 million in Series A funding, led by NOIA Capital in partnership with Accrete Capital, as it looks to expand the global reach of its AI-enabled digital twin technology across sectors including defence, national security, healthcare, and infrastructure. Founded in June 2023 and headquartered in the UK, Skyral is developing a next-generation platform that combines digital twin modelling with artificial intelligence to simulate comple…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has
ended its emergency response
to the H5N1 avian flu.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5389863-cdc-ends-bird-flu-emergency/

CDC ends bird flu emergency (Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5389863-cdc-ends-bird-flu-emergency/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p94#a250708p94

Extreme Learning Machine Based System for DDoS Attacks Detections on IoMT Devices
Nelly Elsayed, Lily Dzamesi, Zag ElSayed, Murat Ozer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05132

Extreme Learning Machine Based System for DDoS Attacks Detections on IoMT Devices
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents a paradigm shift in the healthcare sector, enabling the interconnection of medical devices, sensors, and systems to enhance patient monitoring, diagnosis, and management. The rapid evolution of IoMT presents significant benefits to the healthcare domains. However, there is a rapid increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the IoMT networks due to several vulnerabilities in the IoMT-connected devices, which negatively impact pati…

WoundAIssist: A Patient-Centered Mobile App for AI-Assisted Wound Care With Physicians in the Loop
Vanessa Borst, Anna Riedmann, Tassilo Dege, Konstantin M\"uller, Astrid Schmieder, Birgit Lugrin, Samuel Kounev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06104

WoundAIssist: A Patient-Centered Mobile App for AI-Assisted Wound Care With Physicians in the Loop
The rising prevalence of chronic wounds, especially in aging populations, presents a significant healthcare challenge due to prolonged hospitalizations, elevated costs, and reduced patient quality of life. Traditional wound care is resource-intensive, requiring frequent in-person visits that strain both patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs). Therefore, we present WoundAIssist, a patient-centered, AI-driven mobile application designed to support telemedical wound care. WoundAIssist enable…

What's a Medicaid cut? Senate GOP tiptoes around $800B question (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5335867-senate-gop-medicaid-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p23#a250609p23

GOP Rep Resigns After Voting To Steal Healthcare - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/gop-rep-resigns-after-voting-to-steal-healthcare/

Robust Incomplete-Modality Alignment for Ophthalmic Disease Grading and Diagnosis via Labeled Optimal Transport
Qinkai Yu, Jianyang Xie, Yitian Zhao, Cheng Chen, Lijun Zhang, Liming Chen, Jun Cheng, Lu Liu, Yalin Zheng, Yanda Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04999

Robust Incomplete-Modality Alignment for Ophthalmic Disease Grading and Diagnosis via Labeled Optimal Transport
Multimodal ophthalmic imaging-based diagnosis integrates color fundus image with optical coherence tomography (OCT) to provide a comprehensive view of ocular pathologies. However, the uneven global distribution of healthcare resources often results in real-world clinical scenarios encountering incomplete multimodal data, which significantly compromises diagnostic accuracy. Existing commonly used pipelines, such as modality imputation and distillation methods, face notable limitations: 1)Imputat…

GOP faces 'big, beautiful' blowback risk on ObamaCare subsidy cuts (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5390885-republicans-obamacare-subsidies-expiration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p154#a250708p154

The contribution of machine learning to the prevention of burnout among healthcare workers in Morocco
Mohammed Eddaou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05264 http…

The contribution of machine learning to the prevention of burnout among healthcare workers in Morocco
In recent years, and particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic, Morocco has experienced significant pressure from user demand, leading to a significant workload in public hospitals. This situation raises major questions regarding the occupational health of healthcare staff. While previous studies have focused on the role of AI in the safety and resilience of military personnel, no research has investigated its role in protecting healthcare personnel from psychosocial risks. This inadequacy lead…

New survey data out Friday shows that Republicans are wrong if they remain unconcerned about public sentiment as it relates to the evisceration of Medicaid or healthcare support systems that would result from passage of their colossal legislation now making its way through Congress
— a bill that, if passed, would see coverage stripped from an estimated 11-16 million people in the coming years.

Poll Shows GOP Senators Who Vote to Cut Medicaid Could Face Political Peril
A KFF Health Tracking Poll shows anxiety is high about looming Medicaid cuts among voters across the political spectrum.

On Demographic Transformation: Why We Need to Think Beyond Silos
Nicholle Mae Amor Tan Maravilla, Myles Joshua Toledo Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03129 …

On Demographic Transformation: Why We Need to Think Beyond Silos
Developed nations are undergoing a profound demographic transformation, characterized by rapidly aging populations and declining birth rates. This dual trend places unprecedented strain on healthcare systems, economies, and social support structures, creating complex biological, economic, and social challenges. This paper argues that current, often siloed, policy responses, such as pronatalist initiatives that overlook the equally urgent needs of older adults, are inadequate for addressing thes…

CLIP-RL: Surgical Scene Segmentation Using Contrastive Language-Vision Pretraining & Reinforcement Learning
Fatmaelzahraa Ali Ahmed, Muhammad Arsalan, Abdulaziz Al-Ali, Khalid Al-Jalham, Shidin Balakrishnan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04317

CLIP-RL: Surgical Scene Segmentation Using Contrastive Language-Vision Pretraining & Reinforcement Learning
Understanding surgical scenes can provide better healthcare quality for patients, especially with the vast amount of video data that is generated during MIS. Processing these videos generates valuable assets for training sophisticated models. In this paper, we introduce CLIP-RL, a novel contrastive language-image pre-training model tailored for semantic segmentation for surgical scenes. CLIP-RL presents a new segmentation approach which involves reinforcement learning and curriculum learning, e…

Noise-Driven AI Sensors: Secure Healthcare Monitoring with PUFs
Christiana Chamon, Abhijit Sarkar, A. Lynn Abbott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05135 https://…

Noise-Driven AI Sensors: Secure Healthcare Monitoring with PUFs
Wearable and implantable healthcare sensors are pivotal for real-time patient monitoring but face critical challenges in power efficiency, data security, and signal noise. This paper introduces a novel platform that leverages hardware noise as a dual-purpose resource to enhance machine learning (ML) robustness and secure data via Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). By integrating noise-driven signal processing, PUFbased authentication, and ML-based anomaly detection, our system achieves secur…

Kalman Filter Aided Federated Koopman Learning
Yutao Chen, Wei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04808 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04808…

Kalman Filter Aided Federated Koopman Learning
Real-time control and estimation are pivotal for applications such as industrial automation and future healthcare. The realization of this vision relies heavily on efficient interactions with nonlinear systems. Therefore, Koopman learning, which leverages the power of deep learning to linearize nonlinear systems, has been one of the most successful examples of mitigating the complexity inherent in nonlinearity. However, the existing literature assumes access to accurate system states and abunda…

Beware of Bert: New ransomware group targets healthcare, tech firms https://therecord.media/bert-ransomware-identified

Heuristic approaches for a new variant of the Team Orienteering Problem
Alberto Guastalla, Roberto Aringhieri, Pierre Hosteins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06012

Heuristic approaches for a new variant of the Team Orienteering Problem
In this paper we tackle the Team Orienteering Problem with Service Times, Mandatory Nodes and Incompatibilities, introduced in~\cite{Guastalla2024} and arising from two real-world healthcare applications. We propose two heuristic algorithms in the form of a Variable Descent Neighbourhood algorithm and a matheuristic based on a Cuts Separation approach. For the former, we also provide a multi-thread version exploiting its intrinsic capability to be parallelised. Both algorithms include a specifi…

Beyond Retrieval: Ensembling Cross-Encoders and GPT Rerankers with LLMs for Biomedical QA
Shashank Verma, Fengyi Jiang, Xiangning Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05577

Beyond Retrieval: Ensembling Cross-Encoders and GPT Rerankers with LLMs for Biomedical QA
Biomedical semantic question answering rooted in information retrieval can play a crucial role in keeping up to date with vast, rapidly evolving and ever-growing biomedical literature. A robust system can help researchers, healthcare professionals and even layman users access relevant knowledge grounded in evidence. The BioASQ 2025 Task13b Challenge serves as an important benchmark, offering a competitive platform for advancement of this space. This paper presents the methodologies and results …

Rollins suggests Medicaid recipients can replace deported farmworkers (Elizabeth Crisp/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5389919-agriculture-secretary-migrant-laborers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p95#a250708p95

In-Training Multicalibrated Survival Analysis for Healthcare via Constrained Optimization
Thiti Suttaket, Stanley Kok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02807 http…

In-Training Multicalibrated Survival Analysis for Healthcare via Constrained Optimization
Survival analysis is an important problem in healthcare because it models the relationship between an individual's covariates and the onset time of an event of interest (e.g., death). It is important for survival models to be well-calibrated (i.e., for their predicted probabilities to be close to ground-truth probabilities) because badly calibrated systems can result in erroneous clinical decisions. Existing survival models are typically calibrated at the population level only, and thus run the…

Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots as Emerging Optical Sensing Platforms for $\mathrm{Ni}^{2 }$ Detection: Recent Approaches and Perspectives
Sudhanshu Naithani, Heena, Pooja Sharma, Samar Layek, Franck Thetiot, Tapas Goswami, Sushil Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04944

Nanoparticles and Quantum Dots as Emerging Optical Sensing Platforms for $\mathrm{Ni}^{2+}$ Detection: Recent Approaches and Perspectives
Over the preceding years, nickel (Ni) and its compounds have been increasingly employed in various aspects of human social life, metallurgical/industrial manufactures, healthcare, and chemical processes. Although Ni is considered an essential trace element in biological systems, excessive intake or metabolic deficiency of \(\mathrm{Ni}^{2+}\) ions may cause detrimental health effects to living organisms. Therefore, a facile and accurate detection of \(\mathrm{Ni}^{2+}\), especially in environme…

Nonparametric regression for cost-effectiveness analyses with observational data -- a tutorial
Jonas Esser, Mateus Maia, Judith Bosmans, Johanna van Dongen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03511

Nonparametric regression for cost-effectiveness analyses with observational data -- a tutorial
Healthcare decision-making often requires selecting among treatment options under budget constraints, particularly when one option is more effective but also more costly. Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) provides a framework for evaluating whether the health benefits of a treatment justify its additional costs. A key component of CEA is the estimation of treatment effects on both health outcomes and costs, which becomes challenging when using observational data, due to potential confounding. W…

On June 13, military veterans and their families and supporters protested in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC,
-- demanding that taxpayer dollars for Donald Trump’s ill-fated military parade and his decision to send troops to Los Angeles should be used instead for housing, healthcare, food, and taking care of veterans.
Around 60 demonstrators were arrested by Capitol police

Thes vets swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies—including Donald Trump
“We need to unite across the spectrum to push back. Veterans like us need to continue to speak out, so that we can motivate other veterans to speak out, and also show them the hypocrisy of this administration.”

‘This isn’t just about Trump’: the Rev William Barber arrested after prayer-protest against Republican-led budget
Eight were arrested at Moral Monday, an effort to stop a bill they say will slash vital healthcare for lower-income people
https://www.theguardia…

Numbers & facts only.
How's our money spent?
What's the most efficient services?
✅ What’s in the “One Big Beautiful Bill”? | USAFacts
https://usafacts.org/articles/whats-in-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/

What’s in the “One Big Beautiful Bill”?
From tax reform to shifts in healthcare, immigration, and SNAP, this legislation will likely affect you.

The GOP’s Budget Plan Is a Crisis in the Making for Hospitals - MedCity News
https://medcitynews.com/2025/06/gop-trump-healthcare-medicaid-hospital-budget/

For decades I have argued that the single biggest barrier to entrepreneurship in the US is our healthcare system. Having been an employee, employer, and independent, and also partaken in start-up culture (ick), I’ve seen it from each side (and I had insurers as clients).
https://omfg.town/@dansinker/114774590

MMOC: Self-Supervised EEG Emotion Recognition Framework with Multi-Model Online Collaboration
Hanqi Wang, Yang Liu, Peng Ye, Liang Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03977

MMOC: Self-Supervised EEG Emotion Recognition Framework with Multi-Model Online Collaboration
Electroencephalography (EEG) emotion recognition plays a crucial role in human-computer interaction, particularly in healthcare and neuroscience. While supervised learning has been widely used, its reliance on manual annotations introduces high costs and potential bias. Self-supervised learning (SSL) offers a promising alternative by generating labels through pretext tasks. However, high inter-subject variability in EEG signals leads to significant data drift, limiting self-supervised models' g…

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A Comparative Study of SMT and MILP for the Nurse Rostering Problem
The effects of personnel scheduling on the quality of care and working conditions for healthcare personnel have been thoroughly documented. However, the ever-present demand and large variation of constraints make healthcare scheduling particularly challenging. This problem has been studied for decades, with limited research aimed at applying Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). SMT has gained momentum within the formal verification community in the last decades, leading to the advancement of S…

I’ve long thought that top govt folks (the elected ones) should have the same healthcare/pension as the poorest citizen.
And take transit to work. https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/114797404531262958

Vee (@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Let them eat cake.

Newsweek acquires adtech firm Adprime, a demand-side platform focused on healthcare marketers, to strengthen its health vertical and grow B2B revenue (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/newsweek-adtech-firm-adprime-health-expansion/

Newsweek Snaps Up Adtech Firm Adprime to Fuel Health Expansion
The tie-up is part of a broader bid from the publisher to diversify its advertising

An Algorithmic Pipeline for GDPR-Compliant Healthcare Data Anonymisation: Moving Toward Standardisation
Hamza Khan, Lore Menten, Liesbet M. Peeters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02942

An Algorithmic Pipeline for GDPR-Compliant Healthcare Data Anonymisation: Moving Toward Standardisation
High-quality real-world data (RWD) is essential for healthcare but must be transformed to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPRs broad definitions of quasi-identifiers (QIDs) and sensitive attributes (SAs) complicate implementation. We aim to standardise RWD anonymisation for GDPR compliance while preserving data utility by introducing an algorithmic method to identify QIDs and SAs and evaluate utility in anonymised datasets. We conducted a systematic literature review…

Planned Parenthood sues over Trump megabill 'defunding' provision (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5388133-planned-parenthood-sues-medicaid-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p114#a250707p114

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FactsR: A Safer Method for Producing High Quality Healthcare Documentation
There are now a multitude of AI-scribing solutions for healthcare promising the utilization of large language models for ambient documentation. However, these AI scribes still rely on one-shot, or few-shot prompts for generating notes after the consultation has ended, employing little to no reasoning. This risks long notes with an increase in hallucinations, misrepresentation of the intent of the clinician, and reliance on the proofreading of the clinician to catch errors. A dangerous combinati…

Without notice or consent, the Trump Administration shared millions of Medicaid enrollees’ private health information with the Department of Homeland Security, which houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Trump is weaponizing Medicaid and injecting fear into healthcare and public services.
This is not about going after waste or fraud; it is about targeting vulnerable people who entrusted their government to help them access healthcare
— a basic human right.

Advancing Digital Accessibility In Digital Pharmacy, Healthcare, And Wearable Devices: Inclusive Solutions for Enhanced Patient Engagement
Vishnu Ramineni, Balaji Shesharao Ingole, Nikhil Kumar Pulipeta, Balakrishna Pothineni, Aditya Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24042

Advancing Digital Accessibility In Digital Pharmacy, Healthcare, And Wearable Devices: Inclusive Solutions for Enhanced Patient Engagement
Modern healthcare facilities demand digital accessibility to guarantee equal access to telemedicine platforms, online pharmacy services, and health monitoring devices that can be worn or are handy. With the rising call for the implementation of robust digital healthcare solutions, people with disabilities encounter impediments in their endeavor of managing and getting accustomed to these modern technologies owing to insufficient accessibility features. The paper highlights the role of comprehen…

A man I have long admired, for good reasons. Worth supporting his cause with donations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/moral-monday-protest-rev-william-barber-arrest

A man I have long admired, for good reasons. Worth supporting his cause with donations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/moral-monday-protest-rev-william-barber-arrest

Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should ‘prove that they matter’
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5334508-dr-oz-medicaid-cuts-work-requirements/

Trump stokes fear, confusion with pulled emergency abortion guidance (Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5337924-abortion-guidance-confusion-doctors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p44#a250607p44

Searching Clinical Data Using Generative AI
Karan Hanswadkar, Anika Kanchi, Shivani Tripathi, Shi Qiao, Rony Chatterjee, Alekh Jindal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24090

Searching Clinical Data Using Generative AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making a major impact on healthcare, particularly through its application in natural language processing (NLP) and predictive analytics. The healthcare sector has increasingly adopted AI for tasks such as clinical data analysis and medical code assignment. However, searching for clinical information in large and often unorganized datasets remains a manual and error-prone process. Assisting this process with automations can help physicians improve their operationa…

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Real-time Chest X-Ray Distributed Decision Support for Resource-constrained Clinics
Internet of Things (IoT) based healthcare systems offer significant potential for improving the delivery of healthcare services in humanitarian engineering, providing essential healthcare services to millions of underserved people in remote areas worldwide. However, these areas have poor network infrastructure, making communications difficult for traditional IoT. This paper presents a real-time chest X-ray classification system for hospitals in remote areas using FastDDS real-time middleware, o…

On the day the UK parliament voted to proscribe the citizen peaceful direct action group Palestine Action as supposedly terrorist, Channel 4 showed the searing Basement Films documentary "Gaza doctors under attack". It showed the actions of the Israeli terrorist State in destroying Gaza's healthcare system, murdering civilians of all kinds and targeting health workers some of whom have died following torture. Sprinkled throughout were the repetitive lies of the occupation.

Defend Public Health
is an all-volunteer network of public health researchers, healthcare workers, advocates and allies
fighting to protect the health of all.
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/

Nabla, which offers an AI copilot for doctors and other medical staff, raised a $70M Series C led by HV Capital and says it now supports 85K clinicians (Judy Rider/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/nabla-ai-copilot-agents-healthcare-fundin…

Nabla Lands $70M To Build AI Agents In Healthcare Settings
Paris-based Nabla, which has developed an AI copilot for doctors and other medical staff, announced Tuesday that it has raised $70 million in a Series C funding led by Germany’s HV Capital.

"What's Up, Doc?": Analyzing How Users Seek Health Information in Large-Scale Conversational AI Datasets
Akshay Paruchuri, Maryam Aziz, Rohit Vartak, Ayman Ali, Best Uchehara, Xin Liu, Ishan Chatterjee, Monica Agrawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21532

"What's Up, Doc?": Analyzing How Users Seek Health Information in Large-Scale Conversational AI Datasets
People are increasingly seeking healthcare information from large language models (LLMs) via interactive chatbots, yet the nature and inherent risks of these conversations remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we filter large-scale conversational AI datasets to achieve HealthChat-11K, a curated dataset of 11K real-world conversations composed of 25K user messages. We use HealthChat-11K and a clinician-driven taxonomy for how users interact with LLMs when seeking healthcare information in or…

Predicting Postoperative Stroke in Elderly SICU Patients: An Interpretable Machine Learning Model Using MIMIC Data
Tinghuan Li, Shuheng Chen, Junyi Fan, Elham Pishgar, Kamiar Alaei, Greg Placencia, Maryam Pishgar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03209

Predicting Postoperative Stroke in Elderly SICU Patients: An Interpretable Machine Learning Model Using MIMIC Data
Postoperative stroke remains a critical complication in elderly surgical intensive care unit (SICU) patients, contributing to prolonged hospitalization, elevated healthcare costs, and increased mortality. Accurate early risk stratification is essential to enable timely intervention and improve clinical outcomes. We constructed a combined cohort of 19,085 elderly SICU admissions from the MIMIC-III and MIMIC-IV databases and developed an interpretable machine learning (ML) framework to predict in…

Predicting Post-Surgical Complications with Quantum Neural Networks: A Clinical Study on Anastomotic Leak
Vojt\v{e}ch Nov\'ak, Ivan Zelinka, Lenka P\v{r}ibylov\'a, Lubom\'ir Mart\'inek, Vladim\'ir Ben\v{c}urik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01708

Predicting Post-Surgical Complications with Quantum Neural Networks: A Clinical Study on Anastomotic Leak
Quantum computing represents a transformative leap in computational power, with the potential to revolutionize various fields, including healthcare. In this study, we explore the application of quantum machine learning in medical diagnostics, specifically focusing on the prediction of anastomotic leak, a severe post-surgical complication. By comparing quantum neural networks implemented with different ansatz functions to classical classification approaches-including logistic regression, support…

Bridging Service Design, Visualizations, and Visual Analytics in Healthcare Digital Twins: Challenges, Gaps, and Research Opportunities
Mariia Ershova, Graziano Blasilli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24104

Bridging Service Design, Visualizations, and Visual Analytics in Healthcare Digital Twins: Challenges, Gaps, and Research Opportunities
Digital twins (DT) are increasingly used in healthcare to model patients, processes, and physiological systems. While recent solutions leverage visualization, visual analytics, and user interaction, these systems rarely incorporate structured service design methodologies. Bridging service design with visual analytics and visualization can be valuable for the healthcare DT community. This paper aims to introduce the service design discipline to visualization researchers by framing this integrati…

Organic ground beef sold at Whole Foods could be contaminated with E. coli: FSIS
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5332188-ground-beef-recall-e-coli/

Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration on Monday over a provision in Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill that would strip funding from health centers operated by the reproductive healthcare and abortion provider.
In a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Planned Parenthood said the provision was unconstitutional,
and its clear purpose is to prevent its nearly 600 health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.

Kash Patel claims 'breakthrough' in Fauci COVID origins probe (Elizabeth Crisp/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5337460-fauci-fbi-investigation-breakthrough-patel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p152#a250606p152

Blockchain Powered Edge Intelligence for U-Healthcare in Privacy Critical and Time Sensitive Environment
Anum Nawaz, Hafiz Humza Mahmood Ramzan, Xianjia Yu, Zhuo Zou, Tomi Westerlund
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02038

Blockchain Powered Edge Intelligence for U-Healthcare in Privacy Critical and Time Sensitive Environment
Edge Intelligence (EI) serves as a critical enabler for privacy-preserving systems by providing AI-empowered computation and distributed caching services at the edge, thereby minimizing latency and enhancing data privacy. The integration of blockchain technology further augments EI frameworks by ensuring transactional transparency, auditability, and system-wide reliability through a decentralized network model. However, the operational architecture of such systems introduces inherent vulnerabil…

Swiss nonprofit health organization breached by Sarcoma ransomware group https://therecord.media/sarcoma-ransomware-breach-swiss-healthcare-nonprofit-radix

Nearly 100 House Democrats urge RFK Jr. to restore millions in family planning grants (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5337240-lawmakers-robert-f-kennedy-jr-restoration-family-planning-grants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p107#a250606p107

The Republican budget measure that Donald Trump signed into law late last week contains a provision that analysts say will
🔥allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their aircraft in the first year of purchase,
❌a boon to the ultra-rich that comes as millions of people are set to lose healthcare under the same legislation.
FlyUSA, a private aviation provider, gushed in a blog post that with final passage of the unpopular budget reconciliation package,
…

The Return of 100% Bonus Depreciation: How 2025 Made Private Aircraft Ownership More Valuable Than Ever
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) was permanently reinstated 100% bonus depreciation for capital equipment, including business & aviation aircraft.

Advancing Digital Accessibility: Integrating AR/VR and Health Tech for Inclusive Healthcare Solutions
Vishnu Ramineni, Shivareddy Devarapalli, Balakrishna Pothineni, Prema Kumar Veerapaneni, Aditya Gupta, Pankaj Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24039

Advancing Digital Accessibility: Integrating AR/VR and Health Tech for Inclusive Healthcare Solutions
Modern healthcare domain incorporates a feature of digital accessibility to ensure seamless flow of online services for the patients. However, this feature of digital accessibility poses a challenge particularly for patients with disabilities. To eradicate this issue and provide immersive and user-friendly experiences, evolving technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are integrated in medical applications to enhance accessibility. The present research paper aims to stu…

The Strategic Imperative for Healthcare Organizations to Build Proprietary Foundation Models
Naresh Tiwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11412 https://…

The Strategic Imperative for Healthcare Organizations to Build Proprietary Foundation Models
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the strategic imperative for healthcare organizations to develop proprietary foundation models rather than relying exclusively on commercial alternatives. We examine four fundamental considerations driving this imperative: the domain-specific requirements of healthcare data representation, critical data sovereignty and governance considerations unique to healthcare, strategic competitive advantages afforded by proprietary AI infrastructure, and th…

Ethical AI: Towards Defining a Collective Evaluation Framework
Aasish Kumar Sharma, Dimitar Kyosev, Julian Kunkel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00233 https://…

Ethical AI: Towards Defining a Collective Evaluation Framework
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming sectors such as healthcare, finance, and autonomous systems, offering powerful tools for innovation. Yet its rapid integration raises urgent ethical concerns related to data ownership, privacy, and systemic bias. Issues like opaque decision-making, misleading outputs, and unfair treatment in high-stakes domains underscore the need for transparent and accountable AI systems. This article addresses these challenges by proposing a modular ethical assess…

Orange County congresswoman targeted by protests over Trump megabill, cuts to healthcare
Protesters railed on Tuesday against Orange County GOP Rep Young Kim
who could be a critical vote on Trump’s proposal to cut more than $1 trillion in federal dollars
that helped pay for healthcare for those in need and extend tax cuts for millions of Americans.
Trump’s proposed Megabill narrowly passed the U.S. Senate hours before hundreds of people gathered in a cul-de-sac outsi…

O.C. congresswoman targeted by protests over Trump megabill
Protestors railed on Tuesday against an Orange County congresswoman who could be a critical vote on President Trump’s proposal to cut more than $1 trillion in federal dollars that helped pay for healthcare for those in need.

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Detecting Dataset Bias in Medical AI: A Generalized and Modality-Agnostic Auditing Framework
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now firmly at the center of evidence-based medicine. Despite many success stories that edge the path of AI's rise in healthcare, there are comparably many reports of significant shortcomings and unexpected behavior of AI in deployment. A major reason for these limitations is AI's reliance on association-based learning, where non-representative machine learning datasets can amplify latent bias during training and/or hide it during testing. To unlock new tools capa…

Austin-based Autonomize AI, which develops AI agents for automating administrative workflows in healthcare and life sciences, raised a $28M Series A (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/06/12/autonomize-ai-raise…

Exclusive: Autonomize AI gets $28M for health agents
It's the latest sign of investor appetite for infrastructure-layer AI in health care.

Future Slot Prediction for Unsupervised Object Discovery in Surgical Video
Guiqiu Liao, Matjaz Jogan, Marcel Hussing, Edward Zhang, Eric Eaton, Daniel A. Hashimoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01882

Future Slot Prediction for Unsupervised Object Discovery in Surgical Video
Object-centric slot attention is an emerging paradigm for unsupervised learning of structured, interpretable object-centric representations (slots). This enables effective reasoning about objects and events at a low computational cost and is thus applicable to critical healthcare applications, such as real-time interpretation of surgical video. The heterogeneous scenes in real-world applications like surgery are, however, difficult to parse into a meaningful set of slots. Current approaches wit…

The biggest lie Trump had ever told about Healthcare affects the poorest people in America:
☑️ Fact check: Trump makes big false claims about his big domestic policy bill
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/politics/fact-check-trump-big-beautiful-bill…

Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should 'prove that they matter' (Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5334508-dr-oz-medicaid-cuts-work-requirements/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p71#a250605p71

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12911 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

A Selective Homomorphic Encryption Approach for Faster Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Federated learning (FL) has come forward as a critical approach for privacy-preserving machine learning in healthcare, allowing collaborative model training across decentralized medical datasets without exchanging clients' data. However, current security implementations for these systems face a fundamental trade-off: rigorous cryptographic protections like fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) impose prohibitive computational overhead, while lightweight alternatives risk vulnerable data leakage th…

When unvaccinated families present with measles at healthcare centres, doctors sometimes struggle to even discuss vaccination with the parents, Hussain said.
“It’s really hard to even approach the conversation.
I would ask: ‘How come you aren’t [vaccinated]?’
And they will say: ‘Oh, we’re exempt’
or ‘We’ve had this discussion before and we just don’t want to,’” she said

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president?
#FourthOfJuly
-- Mrs Betty Bowers

Importance of User Control in Data-Centric Steering for Healthcare Experts
Aditya Bhattacharya, Simone Stumpf, Katrien Verbert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18770

Importance of User Control in Data-Centric Steering for Healthcare Experts
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into high-stakes domains like healthcare, effective collaboration between healthcare experts and AI systems is critical. Data-centric steering, which involves fine-tuning prediction models by improving training data quality, plays a key role in this process. However, little research has explored how varying levels of user control affect healthcare experts during data-centric steering. We address this gap by examining manual and aut…

How Trump's megabill will impact health care (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5384707-how-trumps-megabill-will-impact-health-care/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p9#a250704p9

AI Data Development: A Scorecard for the System Card Framework
Tadesse K. Bahiru, Haileleol Tibebu, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02071 …

AI Data Development: A Scorecard for the System Card Framework
Artificial intelligence has transformed numerous industries, from healthcare to finance, enhancing decision-making through automated systems. However, the reliability of these systems is mainly dependent on the quality of the underlying datasets, raising ongoing concerns about transparency, accountability, and potential biases. This paper introduces a scorecard designed to evaluate the development of AI datasets, focusing on five key areas from the system card framework data development life cy…

How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-amazon-ai-healthcare-prescript…

AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon
At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications.

Top CDC COVID vaccine adviser resigns following RFK Jr. recommendation change (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5333478-cdc-covid-vaccine-official-resigns/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p167#a250604p167

Multi-Tool Analysis of User Interface & Accessibility in Deployed Web-Based Chatbots
Mukesh Rajmohan, Smit Desai, Sanchari Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04659

Multi-Tool Analysis of User Interface & Accessibility in Deployed Web-Based Chatbots
In this work, we present a multi-tool evaluation of 106 deployed web-based chatbots, across domains like healthcare, education and customer service, comprising both standalone applications and embedded widgets using automated tools (Google Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, SiteImprove Accessibility Checker) and manual audits (Microsoft Accessibility Insights). Our analysis reveals that over 80% of chatbots exhibit at least one critical accessibility issue, and 45% suffer from missing semantic str…

I didn’t expect that my career-ending move would be to say 'stop bombing hospitals'
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/6/university_california_san_francisco_gaza

Fired over Gaza? Dr. Rupa Marya Sues UCSF, Says She Was Targeted for Speaking Up for Palestine
We speak with Dr. Rupa Marya, a physician, activist, author and composer, who this week filed two free speech complaints against her former employer, the University of California, San Francisco. The school fired her last month after a lengthy suspension over her criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza and its impact on healthcare in the Palestinian territory. “I didn’t expect that my career-ending move would be to say 'stop bombing hospitals,' for expressing support for Palestinian liberation a…

FDA upgrades blueberry recall to highest risk level (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5384059-fda-blueberry-listeria-recall/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p114#a250703p114

Almost 200 countries guarantee children’s rights.
Why doesn’t the US?
The US never signed on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which experts say paves the way for cuts to federal funding for children’s health coverage
https://www.

Investigation: healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island share sensitive data with Google, LinkedIn, and Snapchat via web trackers (The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/w…

We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – The Markup
Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn

FDA commissioner pledges to investigate mifepristone (Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5330774-marty-makary-fda-mifepristone-review/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p108#a250603p108

The End Of Universal Lifelong Identifiers: Identity Systems For The AI Era
Shriphani Palakodety
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02027 https://

The End Of Universal Lifelong Identifiers: Identity Systems For The AI Era
Many identity systems assign a single, static identifier to an individual for life, reused across domains like healthcare, finance, and education. These Universal Lifelong Identifiers (ULIs) underpin critical workflows but now pose systemic privacy risks. We take the position that ULIs are fundamentally incompatible with the AI era and must be phased out. We articulate a threat model grounded in modern AI capabilities and show that traditional safeguards such as redaction, consent, and access c…

Immersive Technologies in Training and Healthcare: From Space Missions to Psychophysiological Research
Barbara Karpowicz, Maciej Grzeszczuk, Adam Kuzdrali\'nski, Monika Kornacka, Aliaksandr Marozau, Wiktor Stawski, Pavlo Zinevych, Grzegorz Marcin W\'ojcik, Tomasz Kowalewski, Grzegorz Pochwatko, Wies{\l}aw Kope\'c
https://

Immersive Technologies in Training and Healthcare: From Space Missions to Psychophysiological Research
Virtual, Augmented, and eXtended Reality (VR/AR/XR) technologies are increasingly recognized for their applications in training, diagnostics, and psychological research, particularly in high-risk and highly regulated environments. In this panel we discuss how immersive systems enhance human performance across multiple domains, including clinical psychology, space exploration, and medical education. In psychological research and training, XR can offer a controlled yet ecologically valid setting …

GOP Medicaid cuts would shutter third of rural hospitals as some lawmakers shrug: ‘Hold your nose’ - Washington Examiner
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/3448991/weekender-republican-medicaid-cuts-shutter-third-rural-hospitals/

Sensemaking Through Making: Developing Clinical Domain Knowledge by Crafting Synthetic Datasets and Prototyping System Architectures
Mihnea Stefan Calota, Wessel Nieuwenhuys, Janet Yi-Ching Huang, Lin-Lin Chen, Mathias Funk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00821

Sensemaking Through Making: Developing Clinical Domain Knowledge by Crafting Synthetic Datasets and Prototyping System Architectures
Designers have ample opportunities to impact the healthcare domain. However, hospitals are often closed ecosystems that pose challenges in engaging clinical stakeholders, developing domain knowledge, and accessing relevant systems and data. In this paper, we introduce a making-oriented approach to help designers understand the intricacies of their target healthcare context. Using Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) as a case study, we explore how manually crafting synthetic datasets based on real-w…

Kennedy's autism crusade ignores history, including his own family's (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5325652-autism-diagnosis-rfk-history-family/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p10#a250602p10

Some people make me want to charge up the cattle prod. He's one.
Dr. Oz applauds blue states rolling back migrant health coverage
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5361875-dr-oz-medicaid-medicare-migrant-health-coverage/

"Who Should I Believe?": User Interpretation and Decision-Making When a Family Healthcare Robot Contradicts Human Memory
Hong Wang, Natalia Calvo-Barajas, Katie Winkle, Ginevra Castellano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21322

"Who Should I Believe?": User Interpretation and Decision-Making When a Family Healthcare Robot Contradicts Human Memory
Advancements in robotic capabilities for providing physical assistance, psychological support, and daily health management are making the deployment of intelligent healthcare robots in home environments increasingly feasible in the near future. However, challenges arise when the information provided by these robots contradicts users' memory, raising concerns about user trust and decision-making. This paper presents a study that examines how varying a robot's level of transparency and sociabilit…

Senate bill allowed to 'defund' Planned Parenthood (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5377656-senate-gop-provision-planned-parenthood/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p147#a250630p147

DOJ announces takedown of record $14.6B in health care fraud (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5377228-doj-health-care-fraud-takedown-dan-bongino/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p115#a250630p115

Beyond Wellbeing Apps: Co-Designing Immersive, Embodied, and Collective Digital Wellbeing Interventions for Healthcare Professionals
Zheyuan Zhang, Jingjing Sun, Dorian Peters, Rafael A. Calvo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19524

Beyond Wellbeing Apps: Co-Designing Immersive, Embodied, and Collective Digital Wellbeing Interventions for Healthcare Professionals
Healthcare professionals (HCPs) face increasing levels of stress and burnout. Technological wellbeing interventions provide accessible and flexible support for HCPs. While most studies have focused on mobile- and web-based programs, alternative technologies like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), tangible interfaces, and embodied technologies are emerging as engaging and effective tools for wellbeing interventions. However, there is still a lack of research on how such technologies a…

There’s no rain in the forecast for Flin Flon, Manitoba over the next week as crews there fight a wildfire that’s raging nearby.
Temperatures throughout the weekend are expecting to range from the low to high 20s, before cooling off.
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and health-care professionals.

No rain forecast as crews battle Flin Flon wildfire
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and healthcare professionals. So far, the wildfires have displaced over 17,000.

Trump Administration Weighs Eliminating Funds for Hospitals Offering Gender Care to Minors (Liz Essley Whyte/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/gender-surgery-childrens-hospitals-trump-282c4cbb
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p98#a250630p98

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13880 has been replaced.
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An AI-powered Public Health Automated Kiosk System for Personalized Care: An Experimental Pilot Study
Background: The HERMES Kiosk (Healthcare Enhanced Recommendations through Artificial Intelligence & Expertise System) is designed to provide personalized Over-the-Counter (OTC) medication recommendations, addressing the limitations of traditional health kiosks. It integrates an advanced GAMENet model enhanced with Graph Attention Networks (GAT) and Multi-Head Cross-Attention (MHCA) while ensuring user privacy through federated learning. This paper outlines the conceptual design and architecture…

Are You Listening to Me? Fine-Tuning Chatbots for Empathetic Dialogue
Paulo Ricardo Knob, Leonardo Scholler, Juliano Rigatti, Soraia Raupp Musse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02537

Are You Listening to Me? Fine-Tuning Chatbots for Empathetic Dialogue
Conversational agents have made significant progress since ELIZA, expanding their role across various domains, including healthcare, education, and customer service. As these agents become increasingly integrated into daily human interactions, the need for emotional intelligence, particularly empathetic listening, becomes increasingly essential. In this study, we explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) respond when tasked with generating emotionally rich interactions. Starting from a small dat…

Exclusive: CDC expert resigns from COVID vaccines advisory role, sources say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/cdc-expert-resigns-covid-vaccines-advisory-role-sources-say-2025-06-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p129#a250603p129

If people taking care of our elders get deported, will anyone take their place?
At a time where it seems fewer and fewer of us want to work in long-term care, the need has never been greater
So how will millions of aging Americans be able to afford care for physical and cognitive decline,
especially given Trump’s proposed cuts to Medicaid, which covers about two-thirds of nursing home residents?
And who will take care of those who don’t have family members who can …

Commentary: If people taking care of our elders get deported, will anyone take their place?
How will millions of seniors get healthcare, especially with Trump's policies on immigration and proposed cuts to Medicaid?

You don’t get to opt out of politics.
Not really.
Because while you’re
“too busy” or “too cool” or “too disillusioned” to vote,
someone else is voting.
And if that someone wants to ban books, force pregnancies, erase history, gut healthcare, or unleash the police state, guess what?

Like It or Not, You’re in It — So Act Like It
🗳️🔥 You can say you don’t care about politics.

Cassidy calls for postponing RFK Jr's vaccine advisory panel meeting (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5365441-cassidy-rfk-jr-vaccine-advisory-panel-meeting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p6#a250624p6

USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/usaid-cuts-may-cause-over-14-million-additional-deaths-by-2030-study-says-2025-07-01/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p3#a250701p3

Trump administration makes sweeping changes to ObamaCare, ends 'Dreamer' coverage (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5361480-trump-obamacare-dreamer-coverage-ends/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p106#a250620p106