September 2020

Technostress has many causes—and cures ()
Liability for following AI treatment recommendations not so clear-cut, but emerging patterns suggest safe pathways ()
Trump’s plan to distribute prescription cards remains up in air ()
Primera Blue Cross hit with $6.85M penalty, corrective action plan for HIPAA violations ()
US residents may soon be buying drugs from Canada—legally ()
Physician/AI aficionado dissects Medicare’s first agreement to pay for use of AI ()
Washington implores parents, providers to catch kids up on regular doctor visits ()
FDA clears AI lung diagnostics ()
AI pioneer wins $1M prize for work in breast imaging, drug discovery ()
AMA urges California governor to veto bill nixing nurse practitioner supervision ()
Mulling an M&A transaction? Here are 3 improvements in care quality to consider, possibly count on ()
FDA’s new digital-health ‘center of excellence’ shows the shape it will take ()
Online database of FDA-approved AI debuts ()
Drones deliver AEDs in times of need ()
3 tips to help hospital executives tackle the pandemic-induced surgery backlog ()
Nursing homes using hospitals as middlemen to bounce low-reimbursement, high-maintenance residents ()
Rand study suggests hospitals are exorbitantly overpaid by private insurers; AHA reacts ()
Sleep apnea trackable by smartphone with AI assistance ()
When to expect a COVID vaccine: 5 views ()
Hospital CEO turnover rate hits lowest mark since 2012 ()
AI to uncover COVID’s likely course in patients with already-troubled lungs ()
Microsoft partners with Nuance on ‘ambient clinical intelligence’ for telehealth ()
$25M more going to rural health orgs fighting the opioid crisis ()
Lawmaker ‘deeply concerned’ over $250M HHS contract for coronavirus-related PR work ()
Here comes ‘the most important flu shot of the century’ ()
Stanford researchers: AmI offers an ‘extraordinary opportunity to illuminate the dark spaces of healthcare’ ()
Ransom paid to cybercriminal on behalf of Inova Health, others ()
Healthcare AI researchers have new guidance for speeding lab-to-clinic turnaround ()
COVID up first as social data science gets a new center with an assist from Facebook ()
AI identifies suicidal individuals using basic health data ()
Alleged Stark violations, kickbacks to cost hospital $50M ()
How a hard-hit medical center cleaned COVID’s proverbial clock ()
4 hurdles thwarting AI from conquering clinical practice ()
Successful drug-shopping company developing telehealth markets, planning $100M IPO ()
Google bringing AI, augmented reality to military cancer detection ()
Providers still making more despite flat productivity ()
AI nabs risky abnormalities in the maternity ward ()
NIH announces $129M to expand rapid COVID-19 testing technologies ()
Google Cloud inks deal to help U.S. military improve cancer care with AI, augmented reality solutions ()