May 2020

Cancer patients with COVID-19 have higher risk of death ()
CVS facing lawsuit from six Blue Cross insurers ()
Resuming healthcare procedures comes with new set of concerns ()
Healthcare companies are returning COVID-19 relief funds ()
US surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 deaths ()
Amazon donates 8K Alexa devices to communities isolated by COVID ()
Major health system delivering COVID supplies by drone ()
Hydroxychloroquine trial suspended by WHO ()
Testing AL and nursing homes for COVID-19 would cost $672M ()
AI adoption in clinical radiology: 4 ups, 4 downs ()
Cigna adds mental health provider to virtual network ()
AI quickly sniffs out COVID in virtual-visit notes ()
Reality-checking 3 assumptions about healthcare AI ()
North Dakota has the best health infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic ()
Kaiser Permanente CIO to retire ()
More Part D plans will likely offer $35 monthly co-pays for insulin in 2021 ()
AI, virtual reality combine to fine-tune drug compounds for fighting COVID-19 ()
Mixed results for healthcare providers pitting AI against COVID ()
How private equity is ruining healthcare ()
Surge in telehealth shows AI’s potential for keeping patients on track ()
CMS finalizes expansion of telehealth benefits in MA plans, Part D policies ()
Apple and Google join forces for COVID-19 contact tracing ()
Biopharma may not come out on top from COVID-19 pandemic ()
AstraZeneca ramps up COVID-19 vaccine accessibility with $1B in funding ()
Why AI has fallen well short of outsmarting COVID-19 ()
Testing nursing homes for COVID-19 costs $440M ()
CMS issues plan to open up nursing homes ()
CVS Health to return $43M in coronavirus funds ()
AI helps medical researchers forge ahead despite COVID’s blocking ()
5G innovation lab opens to support AI development, edge computing, more ()
AI’s ‘radical potential’ to personalize medicine using population data ()
Hospitals face steep revenue declines amid patient volume losses ()
Civica Rx partners with US government to produce generics for COVID-19 response ()
President Trump taking unproven drug to prevent COVID-19 infection ()
COVID lessons emerge from AI tracking of Reddit talk trends ()
FDA clears AI software for early osteoporosis intervention ()
Stroke care delayed during COVID-19 pandemic ()
Record breaches soared 273% in beginning of 2020 ()
When the pandemic is in the past, will digital health have gained much ground? ()
$20M to help machine learning map the immune system ()
AI called the ‘perfect tool’ to flag signs of serious trouble ahead for new COVID patients ()
6 hurdles primary care must clear to begin leveraging AI ()
Digital health a hub as HHS makes $5M available to COVID researchers ()
10% of patients with a ‘big three’ disease are misdiagnosed ()
Health coverage during and after COVID: 6 fallouts to watch for ()
New consortium seeks the ‘sweet spot of AI’ in the fight against COVID ()
Federated machine learning to take on brain-tumor diagnosis ()
Algorithmic model almost 80% accurate at diagnosing COVID in app users ()
Hospitals in the mix as House Democrats pitch another $3T in COVID relief ()
Healthcare disrupter Haven recruiting replacement for Gawande ()
Mayo Clinic partnering with UK tech company on COVID’s cardiac impact ()
5 notable quotes on COVID’s culling of 1.4 million healthcare jobs in April ()
AI deftly reclassifies lung nodules for cancer risk ()
FDA signs off on AI algorithms for detecting COVID-19 in incidental CT findings ()
Healthcare AI players advised to see explainability as ‘tailored interpretability’ ()
Many eyes on x-ray AI for COVID-19 detection ()
Students design new face mask that monitors vital signs ()
University announces healthcare AI ‘cluster hires’ ()
Gartner: 5 areas ripe for better COVID decision-making through AI in healthcare ()
AI researchers set sights on detecting COVID-19 in imaging results ()
Costly COVID: AHA braces hospitals, health systems to lose $51B per month ()
COVID-19 puts 1,400 out of work at Michigan Medicine ()
Hospital converts main entrance into COVID x-ray room ()
Hospital federation: Many hospitals now ‘teeter on the brink of financial collapse’ ()
Babylon launches AI-powered healthcare app to help New Yorkers ()
South Dakota, Hawaii bookend states with fewest, most COVID constraints ()
Almost 80% of US nurses worry about infecting loved ones with COVID-19 ()
Agfa-Gevaert completes healthcare IT sale to Dedalus for $1.07B ()
Deep learning classifies Alzheimer’s for personalized diagnosis, risk prediction ()
Google’s healthcare API has its ‘first and only’ supplier of MFT software ()
Scale AI announces $3.4M investment in COVID-19 research ()
AI-powered test spots early signs of glaucoma progression ()
Telehealth company wins FDA go-ahead on 2 neurodiagnostic AI applications ()