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The FDA’s new Digital Health Center of Excellence has released a document describing how it will henceforth oversee and evaluate software that incorporates AI and machine learning for medical applications.

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The COVID crisis has shushed but not silenced hospitals’ talks on mergers and acquisitions in 2020.

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Two prominent palliative care specialists are calling on the nation’s healthcare influencers to rethink restrictive visitation policies and scattershot communication practices. 

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CDC researchers are estimating that asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers account for at least half of all community transmissions. This includes carriers who never develop symptoms as well as those who later do.

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AI researchers and developers across the U.S. received a powerful if overshadowed shot in the arm on New Year’s Day.

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The FDA has cleared UK-based Ultromics to sell an AI-powered tool for diagnosing coronary artery disease (CAD) on echocardiograms.

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The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.