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Every time I’ve seen this video over the past week, I watch it. I’ve followed Jordan Lucas on all platforms. More self-expression in all sports. Please and thank you ❤️

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Regulating Healthcare Coverage Algorithms <p><span>Healthcare insurers utilize algorithms to generate treatment coverage determinations. Insurers use such algorithms to decide whether a particular healt

Additional work around these algorithms and their de-regulation is available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... and here: theconversation.com/how-artifici...

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Regulating Healthcare Coverage Algorithms in the Shadow of ERISA <div> Health insurers increasingly deploy artificial intelligence systems to automate coverage determinations, processing millions of prior authorization and p

New draft paper forthcoming in the @michlawreview.bsky.social that works hard to create a path for state pre-market validation of healthcare coverage algorithms: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Very much a work-in-progress and comments are extremely welcome.

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: HAPI Seminar - The New Drug War with Jennifer Oliva, JD. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Professor Jennifer Oliva, JD, is a United States Army veteran who serves as a Research Scholar at Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law and a Senior Scholar with the UCSF...

My "New" War on Drugs talk w/Georgetown University's HAPI program is tomorrow. It will focus on my Virginia Law Review paper (w/Taleed El-Sabawi): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... & @inquest.bsky.social essay: inquest.org/everything-o...
You can register here: georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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This Wisconsin City Ditched AI Surveillance Cameras. Now Activists Want to Keep Going. - Bolts Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing... Read ...

NEW: When a Wisconsin mayor ended his city's contract with Flock (the AI surveillance company), he was stunned to see Flock refused to remove cameras.

So he covered them with plastic bags.

Now local activists are taking their fight to Madison & the Dane County sheriff, wanting more cameras gone.

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Thanks Maybell and @tulanelaw.bsky.social faculty for such a warm welcome and insightful feedback. Always a delight to be with your faculty!

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We had such a great time welcoming @valenabeety.bsky.social here at Tulane Law today. She presented her piece, Reproductive Wrongful Convictions: Gender, Ableism and Labeling as "Unfit," which is forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review for our faculty workshop series. Thanks, Valena!

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Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center

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Demand grows for doulas who can help moms with addiction • Stateline Peer recovery doulas are specialists who have lived experience with substance use disorder and are trained in supporting pregnant and postpartum moms with addiction. More states have passed laws to in...

Demand grows for doulas who can help moms with addiction stateline.org/2026/01/30/d...

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Fascinating panel on @jennoliva.bsky.social’s new paper Regulating Healthcare Algorithms in the Shadow of ERISA with fantastic commentary by @danielschwarcz.bsky.social & Charlotte Tschider at @setonhallhealthlaw.bsky.social WIP retreat 🔥🔥🔥

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How patients are using AI to fight back against denied insurance claims As health insurers increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to process claims, denials have been on the rise. In 2023, about 73 million Americans on Affordable Care Act plans had their claims for ...

Prof. @jennoliva.bsky.social appeared on PBS NewsHour, discussing her research in the area of healthcare coverage algorithm regulation. Fantastic interview for anyone interested in how AI is factoring into health insurance decision making. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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How patients are using AI to fight back against denied insurance claims As health insurers increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to process claims, denials have been on the rise. In 2023, about 73 million Americans on Affordable Care Act plans had their claims for ...

Important and timely work by health law extraordinaire @jennoliva.bsky.social featured on @pbsnews.org — discussing the AI battle between private insurers (who use AI to deny claims) & patients (who use new AI tools to draft effective appeals on those denials) . 🔥🔥🔥 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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How patients are using AI to fight back against denied insurance claims As health insurers increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to process claims, denials have been on the rise. In 2023, about 73 million Americans on Affordable Care Act plans had their claims for ...

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Helpful insights from @jennoliva.bsky.social @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social

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Mom gives birth on side of road after being discharged from NW Ind. hospital in active labor: family The woman's family says hospital staff discharged the mother of multiple children, telling her to go home and wait for her labor to progress.

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This is going to be a terrific discussion re: AI & health insurance coverage decisions that’s open to the public if you are interested. @umnconsortium.bsky.social

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Texas Almost Executed a Man Based on “Junk Science.” His Ordeal Isn’t Over. Robert Roberson, who was nearly killed due to the discredited “shaken baby syndrome” theory, is still at risk.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

@elizabethweill.bsky.social @thenation.com

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Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony Dissenting from the court’s majority, one judge sounded the alarm about ignoring recanted forensic testimony, saying the medical examiner’s reversal “calls into doubt the foundation of the trial.”

Dissenting from the court's majority, one judge sounded the alarm about ignoring recanted forensic testimony, saying the medical examiner's reversal "calls into doubt the foundation of the trial."

By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

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I’m super excited too! 💚

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I'm so excited about this year's line up for our external faculty workshop series, y'all! We'll be welcoming Guy-Uriel Charles (Harvard), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, @richardalbert.bsky.social, @valenabeety.bsky.social 1/2

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Episode 181: AI and Health Equity | ACS

🎧 AI is changing how we work, how we make art, and how we access healthcare. @jennoliva.bsky.social joined Taonga Leslie on #BrokenLaw to explore how AI and algorithms are being used to restrict access to healthcare & how lawyers and patients can advocate for greater fairness and transparency.

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IU students, faculty helping build Indiana Innocence Project The Indiana Innocence Project is taking on clients, assisting in appeals and hiring staff a year after it formally launched last summer, and IU-Bloomington students and faculty are a big part of the o...

Prof. @valenabeety.bsky.social talks about the progress made by the newly established Indiana Innocence Project. Great work being done by Indiana University faculty and students! indianapublicmedia.org/news/iu-stud...

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A huge thanks to @brnnewsfacts.bsky.social for interviewing me about my recently published Indiana Law Journal essay, Regulating Healthcare Coverage Algorithms available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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How artificial intelligence controls your health insurance coverage Health insurance companies use AI to decide which health care treatment to cover. State laws and federal agencies are now moving toward regulating these algorithms.

theconversation.com/how-artifici... @jennoliva.bsky.social

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Purdue Cuts Off Student Paper Citing Institutional Neutrality Purdue University has ended a long-standing partnership with its independent student newspaper, The Purdue Exponent, and will no longer distribute papers, give student journalists free parking passes ...

Purdue is trying to ban the student newspaper from using the university's name in its title and ending preferred campus access--in the name of institutional neutrality.

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Four Things States Can Do To Further Protect Health Care Privacy | Health Affairs Forefront As experts in health, law, and privacy, we wrote this essay to draw attention to prescription drug monitoring programs and their potential for harm.

Our latest on ways that states can provide better heath data sanctuaries to at-risk populations (spoiler alert: stop sharing data with health care criminalization states & stop collecting sensitive healthcare info). Thanks to my co-authors @lizchiarello.bsky.social & Wendy Bach

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JUST IN: Democrat John Ewing has defeated Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert, a Republican who was running for a fourth term.

Ewing, who currently serves as Douglas County's treasurer and will be Omaha's first Black mayor, leads Stothert 56 to 44 percent with most ballots counted.

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Man burns 100 Beachwood Public Library books on Jewish, African American, LGBTQ+ education: report “I condemn this act, not only because it is a crime against our institutions and community, but also because it is fundamentally un-American. This nation was founded on the right to free speech and op...

A man checked out 100 books on Jewish history, Black history, and LGBTQ+ education from a library only to burn them

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The Price of Remission When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

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He Frantically Called 911 to Revive His Infant Son. Now He Could Face 12 Years in Prison. Exonerations and new science continue to raise questions about shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis that lives on under a different name: “abusive head trauma.” Critics say the name deflects scrutiny whi...

NEW, from me: Shaken baby syndrome--a diagnosis that has resulted in wrongful convictions across the country--continues to shape criminal prosecutions and child welfare investigations, under the name "abusive head trauma."

My story of what happened to one family.

www.propublica.org/article/shak...

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The wrong man: Bronx native left devastated after judge denies exoneration following 30-year legal battle | amNewYork Eduardo Caba was supposed to finally have a moment of salvation in a Bronx court on Monday afternoon following a three-decade legal battle over a crime he

Unreal. The Brox DA's office found this man innocent but "the presiding judge refused to dismiss the conviction, arguing that it would set a precedent to undo scores of other convictions. [He indicated] that if he did, the floodgates of other appeals would open."

www.amny.com/new-york/bro...

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