Private equity + rural hospitals | AI for hospital boards of trustees

Despite care concerns in recent years, private equity firms like Apollo are continuing to scoop up hospitals across the country.

As AI continues infiltrating healthcare at nearly every level, the technology’s potential for good and ill must become—or remain—a preeminent concern for hospital boards of trustees.

Going forward, all 680 health centers in the two provider groups will combine to operate under the Marathon Health banner.

A Washington woman was pulled over and arrested because a state trooper thought she was driving under the influence. It turned out that she was not drunk, but suffering from a frontal-lobe subdural hematoma. She has now filed a lawsuit against the county. 

It’s not easy to get patients, providers, payers, vendors and regulators to agree on any one aspect of healthcare delivery. But the CDRH recently managed to get everyone to settle on a working definition of transparency.

Many patients do not want to limit their salt intake, even when a doctor tells them the numerous health benefits. Salt substitutes may represent another way forward. 

Radiology advocates said they look forward to working with the six senators, who believe Congress "must make changes" to the flawed system. 

Not all genres are equal in a clinical setting.