Coronavirus research straight from Wuhan | Healthcare hiring up | Waylaid transplant organs

Among the team’s key findings were that around 10% of infected patients first presented with digestive troubles rather than fever and cough. More striking still, 41% seemed to have become infected within the hospital—and many of these were healthcare workers.

U.S. healthcare added almost 36,000 jobs in January, with most of the hiring being done by ambulatory health providers (around 23,000 new jobs) and hospitals (10,000).

Scores of organs—mostly kidneys—are trashed each year and many more become critically delayed while being shipped on commercial airliners.

An AI simulation model predicts catastrophic effects of the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, but the credibility of AI models is being called into question.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma penned an op-ed in the Washington Post defending a Medicaid block grant policy, dubbed Healthy Adult Opportunity.

An HHS rule that would enable patients to have free access to their medical records through third-party digital apps is facing a tough battle, with one of the biggest EMR vendor companies, Epic Systems, leading the opposition.

Envision Healthcare, the physician-led services and post-acute care company based in Nashville, announced its president and CEO Christopher “Chris” Holden will step down from his role. Holden has been with the company for 13 years.