Medical Korea 2024 opened to a large audience in Seoul, South Korea for a two-day run to highlight advances in the medical field, including those in radiotherapy.
Medicare coverage of medical software in the U.S. is generally not the subject of flattering remarks from industry, but the novelty of the subcategory of artificial intelligence (AI) would seem to suggest that the Medicare problem for AI is even more severe. That suspicion was borne out by consultant Bruce Quinn who said at a public meeting here in Washington that some areas of software coverage and reimbursement, including AI software, “are just a train wreck,” a problem he said is especially acute in fee-for-service care.
With the number of people with dementia in Australia expected to nearly double by 2054, the federal government is funding a new AU$50 million (US$32.76 million) biomedical and med-tech incubator program to develop new therapies, medical devices and digital health technologies to address dementia and cognitive decline.