March 2021

Biden administration promotes new Obamacare subsidies in $50M campaign ()
Minorities are severely underrepresented in healthcare workforce ()
FTC files suit to stop Illumina’s $7.1B takeover of life sciences firm ()
Nines gets nod on AI nodule measurer ()
Prostate AI flirts with perfection on accuracy ()
Prestigious provider org joins with storied tech giant to ‘accelerate discovery’ ()
How to make virtual healthcare personal ()
Study confirms COVID-19 vaccines are effective ()
CDC director fears 'impending doom' in COVID-19 uptick ()
Healthcare AI takes another jab to the jaw ()
Individuals with MS well served by monitoring with ML ()
Growing library of literature on COVID-focused AI found wanting for usefulness ()
IoT outpacing AI and other emerging technologies in infection-conscious nursing ()
Medical AI can’t do much without info-sharing patients—and younger generations aren’t thrilled to be asked ()
Lung lesion AI earns FDA’s OK ()
COVID relief bill slashed insurance premiums for early retirees ()
COVID-19 vaccinations prevent infections among healthcare workers ()
What healthcare boards worry about in 2021 ()
AI armband for COVID screening passes muster for emergency use ()
Landlords becoming healthcare providers ()
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine sales to reach $15B ()
A surprising number of healthcare pros are skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccine ()
Large survey shows radiologists need AI education to keep job concerns at bay ()
Deep learning detects, annotates epileptic seizures on scant EEG data ()
What Watson Health going on the block may say about IBM per se ()
Pain impressively modulated by—and better understood with—immersive VR ()
AI guides therapeutic decisions for dialysis patients ()
Breast cancer AI cleared for EU markets ()
Humana changes health services business name to CenterWell ()
Amazon expands telehealth services beyond employees ()
Racial, ethnic disparities ranked No. 1 patient-safety issue of the year ()
New Walgreens CEO takes over ()
AI for CT angiography gets go-ahead ()
AI may help liberate parenting from ‘technoference’ ()
Is COVID-focused AI ready for legal scrutiny? ()
Wrist-based early alert for COVID cleared for sale in Europe ()
Healthcare settings don’t exacerbate Covid-19 spread ()
Healthcare consolidation deserves stronger antitrust examination ()
2.7M healthcare workers plan to exit after pandemic ()
Portable MRI enhanced by AI cleared for prostate imaging ()
Explainable AI for breast cancer shows multidisciplinary logic ‘pixel by pixel’ ()
COVID crisis burnishes AI’s promise while magnifying chinks in its armor ()
Telehealth claims surged in 2020 ()
Many elderly Americans don’t understand their Medicare plans ()
CDC gives go-ahead for maskless gatherings of the fully vaccinated ()
Robots almost as good as clinicians at pleasing patients in the ER ()
AI imaging interpreter gains FDA’s OK for prostate care ()
AI identifies FDA-approved drugs warranting novel testing against Alzheimer’s ()
Meet the 10 best hospitals in the world ()
MRI study underscores patients don’t shop around for lower prices ()
Healthcare enrollment jumps in first two weeks of special period ()
Physician practices suffered at the start of the pandemic ()
AI finds pre-diabetes using only age, waist size—and Darwinism ()
8 principles for AI ethics in pathology, other specialties ()
Healthcare companies make Glassdoor’s best workplaces list ()
3 ways to improve healthcare administration and lower costs ()
FDA approves Johnson & Johnson’s Covid vaccine ()