This article presents challenges and solutions regarding health care–focused large language models (LLMs) and summarizes key recommendations from major regulatory and governance bodies for LLM ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Since the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has piloted more than 50 alternative payment models (APMs) ...

Generative AI models can identify social determinants of health (SDOH) in doctors’ notes, a new study finds. SDOH like housing and income are major drivers of health outcomes. But these factors are ...

Google has introduced Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF), a public resource for healthcare developers that provides open-weight models to help them build healthcare applications, initially ...

AI can give out bad mental health advice. This can occur due to initial training. A new technique uses knowledge localization ...

At its core, public health communication is about connecting with people—not just delivering facts, but designing messages that reflect what people need, fear and value. What’s often overlooked is ...

Despite the ability to collect and analyze far richer health data than ever before, public health and medical experts have failed to use that information to develop new conceptual models for health.