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Health & Veritas


Mar 21, 2024

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale health economist Zack Cooper to discuss his work on surprise medical bills and the impact of high healthcare costs on households, wages, and the economy. Harlan reports on Hippocratic AI’s efforts to develop AI nurses. Howie looks at the global effort to eradicate tuberculosis.

Links:

“Hippocratic AI banks $53M backed by General Catalyst, a16z, Memorial Hermann, UHS and other health systems”

“Polaris: A Safety-focused LLM Constellation Architecture for Healthcare”

Yale | Eli Whitney Students Program

Touching the Dragon: And Other Techniques for Surviving Life’s Wars

The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured

“Costs Can Go Up Fast When E.R. Is in Network but the Doctors Are Not”

“Bankrupt Envision Healthcare approved to split in two, cut debt”

“The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills”

Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States

“Medical LLM developer Hippocratic AI gets $53M at $500 valuation”

The Breakthrough of Large Language Models Release for Medical Applications: 1-Year Timeline and Perspectives

World Health Organization | World Tuberculosis Day

Partners In Health | Tuberculosis

“WHO urges investments for the scale up of tuberculosis screening and preventive treatment”

“The latest twist in John Green’s anti-tuberculosis story: working with governments”

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