Contactless credit-card readers and police radar guns enjoy broad social license to operate just about anywhere. Self-driving cars and flock safety cameras don’t. AI in healthcare? 

One major operation is largely camouflaged—in fact it’s effectively out of sight—but it’s a prime mover in the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown on healthcare fraud. 

When a nursing home closes down, the local population and press often perceive the move as a simple exit from the market due to failing fiscal health. But in about half the cases, additional forces are in play—and “closures” may be, in truth, do-overs of one kind or another. 

She quit her post in disgust last August after serving a decade in the C-suite of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now Deb Houry, MD, MPH, is looking out over U.S. healthcare with glass-half-full enthusiasm. 

Healthcare stakeholders of a certain age range will remember when the Centers for Disease Control declared measles dead and gone in the U.S. That was in 2000. The eradication was nice while it lasted, wasn’t it?

Six in 10 cardiovascular imagers report feelings of burnout, and many of them are thinking about leaving the field altogether.