August 2020

Hospital market analysis: Post-COVID belt-tightening, M&A activity likely ahead ()
Federal program fumbling funds for uninsured COVID patients ()
Elon Musk’s Neuralink has healthcare AI on the brain ()
Amazon foregrounds consumer AI with its new health-improvement wearable ()
TeraRecon Launches Intuition Subscription with Included Eureka AI Platform ()
Machine learning can help avert infants’ discomfort, overtreatment ()
AMA wants more FDA transparency, physician involvement during COVID vaccine development ()
More time to apply for a share of $15B in phase 2 COVID relief funding ()
Getting acquired by private equity bolsters hospitals’ bottom line, quality status ()
AI–spectroscopy combo rats out fentanyl and its illicit kin ()
Google takes $100M plunge into telehealth ()
How deeply involved should physicians be in America’s social struggles? ()
Major U.S. airport launches onsite COVID-19 testing, with results in less than 1 hour ()
Nursing homes, assisted living centers expect COVID-caused closings ()
Analysis: $1.4B could have gone to better uses than discarded Medicare drugs ()
Brain imaging a likely focus for ‘AI vs. mental illness’ researchers ()
AI model suggests COVID-19 will grow more infectious ()
Almost half of physicians believe the COVID crisis won’t cool off until June 2021 ()
Will the COVID crisis rouse health execs from pop-health procrastination? ()
Pandemic perspectives: 3 affected generations, 1 stark conclusion ()
Researchers clarify: Don’t dismiss the neck gaiter as a facemask failure ()
Pandemic has opened doors for telehealth, but security concerns could narrow the space ()
AI all over COVID-countering advances backed by the NIH ()
Internationally trained AI yields generalizable COVID lung catcher ()
Standard operating procedures start chugging back to life at Medicare, Medicaid ()
$1.4B in fresh COVID relief headed for freestanding children’s hospitals ()
Nursing homes report highest COVID case totals to-date, plead to Congress for help ()
7 reasons Slavitt is jazzed over rapid saliva test for COVID ()
CDS software improves patient outcomes as well as practitioner performance ()
Twin-engine AI speeds COVID patients through triage ()
$66M to hospitalize 38 patients over 3 weeks—would you take that deal? ()
Search engines unequally inhospitable to antivaxxers ()
3 ways AI can enable ‘earlier medicine’ across the care continuum ()
Emergency in the national ER: Only 8% of department-dedicated docs working rural ()
5 easy actions to boost pediatric vaccination participation ()
HHS offers $2.5M in CARES Act funding to boost health information exchange during crises ()
‘Imaginative AI’ a strong diagnostic performer vs. doctors ()
4 ways AI may change plastic surgery ()
Big businesses are hiring chief medical officers ()
Mask study finds one style actually increases transmission risk ()
Medical educators: Appreciate AI’s limitations as well as its potential ()
Does AI mean the end for breast radiologists? ()
Debate over hybrid classrooms a signpost of back-to-school health troubles ahead ()
Photo-fed AI can tell your dietician what’s on your plate ()
CVS Health thriving despite COVID setback ()
Essential workers in therapy resilient against COVID ()
Verma gets behind Trump’s telehealth plan, ‘sweeping’ healthcare executive order to come ()
Teladoc agrees to buy chronic care company Livongo in $18.5B deal ()
Notes from China: 3 of the most important—and scariest—things you’ll read about AI all month ()
AI in daily clinical practice: Can we get there from here anytime soon? ()
Google and Harvard team up against COVID ()
Three-quarters of the chronically ill see plenty of doctors but don’t know what to do next ()
Some sleepers arise in rankings of top (and bottom) states for healthcare ()
Healthcare coalition cheers House vote overturning ‘archaic’ ban on unique patient identifiers ()
AI’s black box could help or hinder the anti-COVID cause ()