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Over the last few years, the number of physicians using telemedicine has doubled, according to a new report from Doximity, and the number continues to increase 20% annually. The new report underscores the growing emergence of the new technologies and the rising need for easy access to medical care among certain populations.

Merger talks between Care New England, one of the largest healthcare systems in Rhode Island, Brown University and Lifespan, operator of Rhode Island Hospital, are over.

In regions of the world lacking resources to conduct comprehensive autopsies, AI can automatically draw cause-of-death conclusions from verbalized clues.

Over the last six years, Dell Technologies Capital has plunked down more than $600 million to invest in startups focused on accelerating the “reinventing work” evolution. Microsoft’s M12 venture fund has shown similar enthusiasm.

Often lost in discussions about AI’s unfolding impact on healthcare is its uncertain effect on patient-physician relationships. The authors of an opinion piece published July 15 in JAMA take up a key question underlying this lack.

The VA’s inaugural director of artificial intelligence believes the technology is “the only way” to move healthcare closer to its perennial dual goals of reducing costs and providing better care.