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Where policy on coverage for COVID testing meets real people, the intended effect is snagging on two words: “medically appropriate.”

The AHA is granting more money toward research on the cardIovascular effects of COVID-19. #COVIS #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #longCOVID

CEOs with the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association underscored the pandemic’s outsized impact on people of color in a letter to lawmakers sent Friday. 

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An AI system trained to supply clinical decision support in the U.S. has proven adaptable for physicians treating patients with lung cancer on the other side of the globe.

Executive Leadership

Most C-level leaders working in healthcare believe the COVID-19 crisis will come to a close. However, they’re sharply divided over timing.  

Pencils

Engineers have come up with a way to place paper-thin sensors on the skin using literal paper. The kind you use in your copy machine will do.

Sunburn Pain

The vast majority of patients with suspected melanoma—94%—would welcome the use of AI as an augmenter of their dermatologist’s diagnostic skills. And more than 40% would trust their diagnosis to a standalone AI system.  

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