# government regulation (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover government regulation. Page: Feed: --- ## [How Did So Many Nonprofit Hospitals Become So Profitable?](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/21/how-did-so-many-nonprofit-hospitals-become-so-profitable/) _2026-08-21 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ In June the Private Equity Stakeholders Project released a new report documenting more than 500 joint ventures between private equity firms and U.S. nonprofit hospitals. The post How Did So Many Nonprofit Hospitals Become So Profitable? first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center . ## [Harmeet Dhillon Scrutinizes the Nation’s Medical Schools](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/20/harmeet-dhillon-scrutinizes-the-nations-medical-schools/) _2026-08-20 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ Over the past two decades, the number of U.S. allopathic medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education has increased from 125 in 2004-05 to 154 in 2024-25. The post Harmeet Dhillon Scrutinizes the Nation’s Medical Schools first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center . ## [The Limits of Unauthorized-Practice in Regulating Mental Health AI](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/19/the-limits-of-unauthorized-practice-in-regulating-mental-health-ai/) _2026-08-19 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ In May, Pennsylvania’s State Board of Medicine filed a lawsuit in the state’s Commonwealth Court against Character Technologies seeking to prevent it from engaging in unauthorized medical practice. The alleged “practitioner,” however, was not a physician or even a human being. It was a chatbot named Emilie. The post The Limits of Unauthorized-Practice in Regulating Mental Health AI first appeared… ## [Why AI Literacy Isn’t Enough to Fix Chatbots: 6 Questions with Medical AI and Health Law Scholar Sofia Palmieri](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/18/why-ai-literacy-isnt-enough-to-fix-chatbots-6-questions-with-medical-ai-and-health-law-scholar-sofia-palmieri/) _2026-08-18 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ Berkeley Law Life Sciences Law & Policy Center Director Vincent Joralemon recently sat down with Sofia Palmieri, a health law scholar working at the intersection of medicine, artificial intelligence, and regulation on both sides of the Atlantic. The post Why AI Literacy Isn’t Enough to Fix Chatbots: 6 Questions with Medical AI and Health Law Scholar Sofia Palmieri first appeared on Petrie-Flom… ## [The Use of AI by Government Healthcare Agencies: Is It in the Public Interest?](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/17/the-use-of-ai-by-government-healthcare-agencies-is-it-in-the-public-interest/) _2026-08-17 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ Federal and state departments are rapidly expanding their use of artificial intelligence, and healthcare agencies are no exception. The post The Use of AI by Government Healthcare Agencies: Is It in the Public Interest? first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center . ## [Testosterone, Informed Consent, and the Military Masculinity Complex](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/11/testosterone-informed-consent-and-the-military-masculinity-complex/) _2026-08-11 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ In July, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced, in a video titled “The High T Department of War,” that every service member 30 and older will now be screened annually for testosterone deficiency . The post Testosterone, Informed Consent, and the Military Masculinity Complex first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center . ## [Mind-reading neurotech, algorithmic manipulation, and drug relapse: 6 Questions with Javier Mesa](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/07/mind-reading-neurotech-algorithmic-manipulation-and-drug-relapse-6-questions-with-javier-mesa/) _2026-08-07 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ Berkeley Law Life Sciences Law & Policy Center Director Vincent Joralemon recently sat down with Javier R. Mesa, a public defender turned behavioral neuroscientist whose work sits at the intersection of law and neuroscience. The post Mind-reading neurotech, algorithmic manipulation, and drug relapse: 6 Questions with Javier Mesa first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center . ## [Department of Justice Misuses Research by Persons with Disabilities to Justify Their Segregation](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/07/department-of-justice-misuses-research-by-persons-with-disabilitiies-to-justify-their-segregation/) _2026-08-07 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) released a memo that advances a vanishingly narrow reading of states’ longstanding legal duty to serve persons with disabilities in community-based settings, rather than in segregated institutions. The post Department of Justice Misuses Research by Persons with Disabilities to Justify Their Segregation first appeared on… ## [AI Can Invent Drugs Faster. It Still Has to Prove They Work.](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/04/ai-can-invent-drugs-faster-it-still-has-to-prove-they-work/) _2026-08-04 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ Recently, Anthropic unveiled an artificial intelligence model with a tantalizing promise: tools that could help researchers design drugs 10 times faster than current methods. The post AI Can Invent Drugs Faster. It Still Has to Prove They Work. first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center . ## [Hospitals Can Save the Environment and Your Health — Or At Least Not Make Them Worse](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/08/01/hospitals-can-save-the-environment-and-your-health-or-at-least-not-make-them-worse/) _2026-08-02 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ The provision of healthcare is responsible for roughly 8.5 percent of total carbon emissions in the United States. In turn, carbon emissions cause climate change and harm human health . The post Hospitals Can Save the Environment and Your Health — Or At Least Not Make Them Worse first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center . ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DPJAbMkBJRcF) _2026-08-02 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [Innovation Politics at the FDA](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/07/31/innovation-politics-at-the-fda/) _2026-07-31 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ The relationship between innovation and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has become a central topic of concern for a whole host of parties: academics , members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , and several former FDA commissioners . The post Innovation Politics at the FDA first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center . ## [Intellectual Disability, Geography, and a Life-or-Death Decision](https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2026/07/27/intellectual-disability-geography-and-a-life-or-death-decision/) _2026-07-27 · Erin Scott · Petrie-Flom Center_ On May 21, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Hamm v. Smith , a case being heavily watched by both criminal justice and disability rights advocates for its potential impact on convictions for individuals sentenced to death involving a determination of intellectual disability. The post Intellectual Disability, Geography, and a Life-or-Death Decision first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center . ## [Context is King](https://civic.io/2026/07/01/context-is-king/) _2026-07-01 · mheadd · Civic Innovations_ People that are new to AI coding often make the mistake of assuming it is just a new form of automation. The truth is that it's actually delegation, and that distinction is critically important. ## [The Other Side of Chesterton’s Fence](https://civic.io/2026/05/22/the-other-side-of-chestertons-fence/) _2026-05-22 · mheadd · Civic Innovations_ Chesterton's Fence is a useful reminder that government processes exist for reasons, even when those reasons aren't obvious. But the principle only gets you so far. Understanding why the fence was built doesn't tell you what to do when the world it was designed for is changing faster than the fence can be redesigned. ## [It’s The End of Agile (As We Know It)](https://civic.io/2026/04/16/its-the-end-of-agile-as-we-know-it/) _2026-04-16 · mheadd · Civic Innovations_ AI is changing the way government teams will practice agile. Are agencies ready for the change? ## [Using AI to Reverse-Engineer a Legacy Application into a Modern Software Specification](https://civic.io/2026/03/22/using-ai-to-reverse-engineer-a-legacy-application-into-a-modern-software-specification/) _2026-03-22 · mheadd · Civic Innovations_ In this post, I demonstrate a hands-on example of using AI tools with a legacy technology system to build the foundation for a modern software solution. ## [Ending the Sugar Rush](https://civic.io/2026/03/16/ending-the-sugar-rush/) _2026-03-16 · mheadd · Civic Innovations_ A new study reveals a troubling pattern in open source projects adopting AI coding tools. The fix, it turns out, may lie in an idea as familiar as a CONTRIBUTING.md file — but updated for the AI era. ## [Modernizing Government Regulations with AI](https://civic.io/2026/03/05/modernizing-government-regulations-with-ai/) _2026-03-05 · mheadd · Civic Innovations_ Finding administrative burden hidden in government regulations has a surprising structural kinship with legacy system modernization. Here's how SpecOps can be used to reform government regulations. ## [From Sharing Code to Sharing Knowledge](https://civic.io/2026/02/18/from-sharing-code-to-sharing-knowledge/) _2026-02-18 · mheadd · Civic Innovations_ For two decades, the vision for government technology has been "build once, share widely." But as AI changes the economics of software development, the future may look less like sharing code and more like sharing the knowledge that makes building easier. ## [Government Software at the Crossroads](https://civic.io/2026/02/11/government-software-at-the-crossroads/) _2026-02-11 · mheadd · Civic Innovations_ Government tech leaders are signing longterm software contracts during the biggest shift in how software works since cloud computing. The assumptions behind those decisions may already be obsolete. ## [Home Internet From Space (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/n3d3L2KINiKa) _2026-02-11 · **Sponsored**_ Residential satellite internet that brings connectivity to homes beyond conventional networks ## [The Collapsing Cost of Software Development](https://civic.io/2026/01/29/the-collapsing-cost-of-software-development/) _2026-01-29 · mheadd · Civic Innovations_ The cost of generating software code is collapsing. AI coding tools have matured faster than most realize. For governments, this changes everything. ## [Disposable Software and the Future of Government Technology](https://civic.io/2026/01/26/disposable-software-and-the-future-of-government-technology/) _2026-01-26 · mheadd · Civic Innovations_ AI is driving a toward "disposable software" and this could have significant implications for the public sector. The SpecOps method offers one way for governments to adapt to this potential change. ## [Ascension and Singularity](https://yieldthought.com/post/806715316902199296) _2026-01-25 · Yield Thought_ With the rise of claude code, codex and clawdbot a few more voices are saying “we are entering the singularity” or “this is what takeoff feels like”. I suspect it’s going to be a sigmoid not a true exponential because there’s always a limiting factor eventually, but I don’t want to talk about that, I want to talk about a much more interesting and real… ## [The Spell is Broken – Using Bluesky](https://alexworradandrews.com/the-spell-is-broken-using-bluesky/) _2025-03-02 · Alex Worrad-Andrews · Alex Worrad-Andrews_ I was once a heavy, which is to say, addicted, Twitter user. I quit a long time ago. As it is where a lot of Twitter people I know went, I got myself a Bluesky account, thinking it would be good for work. This weekend I thought of a funny ## [Best films seen in 2024](https://alexworradandrews.com/best-films-of-2024/) _2025-01-01 · Alex Worrad-Andrews · Alex Worrad-Andrews_ In 2024 I watched 54 films. I watched 100 films in 2023, 86 films in 2022, 82 films in 2021 and 70 in 2020. This is a low count, coming off the back of doing the big 100. This quantity of films is strictly amateur , I have learnt. I think ## [Fragments on films watched in 2022](https://alexworradandrews.com/untitled/) _2024-12-20 · Alex Worrad-Andrews · Alex Worrad-Andrews_ Publish what you have written, even if it is late. Edit it later if you want. I watched 86 films in 2022. This is up from 82 films in 2021 and 70 in 2020. Here are some highlights. Martin Eden (2017) A loose adaptation of Jack London's novel,