There’s good news and bad news from the COVID-19 beat. For the bad news, look anywhere news is disseminated. For the good, start with this compact but formidable roundup.  

As Congress gets to work following its Independence Day break, provider lobbyists are pushing hard for a fifth relief package to stem the bleeding from widespread declines in patient visits. 

Less than half the U.S. public is OK with physicians giving hospital patients’ names to hospital development departments—and that’s after the doctors ask the patients for permission.

What are the odds of getting exposed to COVID-19 at a supermarket versus at a restaurant seating customers at every other table? The consensus answer from numerous authoritative voices may surprise you.

Where policy on coverage for COVID testing meets real people, the intended effect is snagging on two words: “medically appropriate.”

CEOs with the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association underscored the pandemic’s outsized impact on people of color in a letter to lawmakers sent Friday. 

Most C-level leaders working in healthcare believe the COVID-19 crisis will come to a close. However, they’re sharply divided over timing.  

Patient-facing healthcare workers are neither softened nor hardened in their attitudes toward clinical decision support powered by AI when it’s instead called “AHI,” for augmented human intelligence.

ELVIS, it seems, has entered the operating room.