February 2021

Computer vision holds promise for the ICU but may face opposition from clinicians, patients, families ()
AI picks out blood biomarkers for autism ()
‘Bidirectional’ patient transfers helped this state protect rural healthcare from COVID ()
Working group debuts standard for AI in healthcare trustworthiness ()
AI decision aid improves patient outcomes ()
IBM sale of Watson Health reveals healthcare’s AI conflict ()
US hits sad milestone: 500,000 COVID-19 deaths ()
Hospitals face long recovery from COVID-19 financial hits ()
Star ratings really do reflect quality of care in Medicare Advantage ()
CVS Health to re-enter ACA marketplace ()
Oscar Health to launch IPO ()
AHA asks for quick confirmation of new HHS leader ()
IBM floats the shopping around of Watson Health ()
Everyday people photos equip AI for skin-cancer screening ()
AI-powered voice screening for COVID earns CE mark ()
Healthcare for children heavily delayed during the pandemic ()
AI algorithm targets new coronavirus outbreaks ()
Healthcare M&A drops in 2020 ()
Virtual patients making fans of actual physicians ()
Call made for more rigorous evaluation of AI aimed at guiding providers, patients ()
Ethics researchers warn of healthcare AI’s potential for widening gaps between haves and have-nots ()
Humana partners with IBM Watson on AI solution ()
Electronic transactions could save healthcare industry $16.3B ()
Vitamin C and Zinc don’t fight COVID-19 ()
Price transparency rattling hospitals to varying degrees, effects ()
Philips partnering with Saudi Arabia on national healthcare AI ()
Federal officers trying to track down scammers behind ‘massive’ counterfeit PPE stores ()
Case study: Telemonitoring patients at home may reduce COVID hospitalizations, ER visits ()
6 steps major new coalition will pursue to grow Obamacare, reach for universal healthcare ()
Machine learning helps guide difficult decisions on inpatient transfers ()
AI exposes ‘severe’ underestimation of COVID prevalence at the hands of antibody surveys ()
The 10 most expensive drugs patients may give themselves ()
Aggregated, analyzed web searches predict spikes, falloffs in COVID cases ()
New academic institute looks to ‘radically transform health systems away from hospitals and clinics’ ()
Vaccine distribution help on the way from Google ()
In silico AI needs just minutes to refine development of mutation-busting vaccines ()
Proactive AI-based ICU patient monitoring cleared for market ()
Oxford experts: ‘Ethically unacceptable’ to bypass impact testing of AI-powered clinical decision support ()
YouTube to bring authoritative health content with new partnerships ()
Most COVID-19 spread by younger adults, early middle-agers ()
Kaiser Permanente partners with Accenture, Microsoft to improve cloud capabilities ()
Consumers want a better way to pay for healthcare ()
Can COVID-19 cause, uncover or otherwise activate diabetes? ()
US drug prices soar above international averages ()