April 2021

Total knee AI/AR cleared for sales in the US ()
AI picks the right test for chest pain ()
9 healthcare outfits named among Forbes’s ‘top AI companies to watch’ in 2021 ()
IBM examines best methods to reduce bias around AI in healthcare ()
Medical AI company Caption Health appoints new CEO ()
Stanford study questions how medical AI devices are evaluated ()
Mount Sinai to offer AI and emerging tech PhD program ()
With added X-ray insights, AI helps diagnose heart arrhythmic disorders ()
Cigna and Oscar Health offer new small business health plan ()
CEO pay fell slightly in 2020. See which healthcare CEOs are top earners ()
Hospital allocates $517,000 toward vaccination bonuses, as health systems team to target hesitancy ()
Omada Health launches internal tool and new platform capabilities ()
AccentCare turns to AI for readmissions help ()
AI spots budding conspiracy theories on social media, helping public health officials intervene ()
GoodRx acquires healthcare video platform HealthiNation ()
Half of US adults have received one COVID-19 vaccine dose ()
In face of COVID-19 pandemic, physician salaries remained largely unchanged ()
1 new platform, 2 new companies sprout in Rochester, Minn. ()
CDC recommends pause on Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine ()
Sedentary lifestyle doubles risk of death from COVID-19 ()
How to Bring Non-DICOM Imaging into Your Enterprise Imaging Strategy ()
AI teases out socioeconomic factors as personalized predictors of health ()
FDA greenlights tabletop heart/lung sensor ()
Boston Globe to academic hospitals: Forbid your leadership from serving on industry boards ()
9 healthcare orgs stand among Fortune’s ‘most heroic’ places to work ()
FDA approves first-of-its-kind colonoscopy AI ()
AI, biology poised to scratch each other’s back ()
Smart speakers expected to penetrate healthcare without disrupting it very much ()
Thermal imaging–AI breast cancer exam cleared for sales in Europe ()
Almost 40% of Americans delayed healthcare due to COVID-19 ()
UnitedHealthcare names new CEO ()
500K people signed up for Obamacare during special enrollment period ()
FDA greenlights 3D-printed cervical spacer system ()
Watching social media in real time, AI could help change vaccine skeptics’ minds ()
Healthcare companies struggle with staff vaccination mandates ()
$500K up for grabs in HHS mask improvement contest ()
CVS Health opens COVID-19 antibody testing at MinuteClinic ()
Deep learning to improve immunotherapies for cancer, other diseases ()
Student-athletes outfitted with wearables to help study COVID ()
Deep learning discerns meat safety quickly, economically ()