November 2020

Ventilators? PPE? Those COVID concerns are so five months ago ()
COVID may cause hospitals’ bottom lines to bottom out—again ()
Affective computing could make healthcare AI more considerate of human feelings ()
AI hypothesizes, shows a connection between optimistic outlook and COVID ethics ()
FDA clears AI for mobile radiology reads, patient communications ()
COVID crisis in Nebraska: ‘We’re watching a system breaking in front of us and we’re helpless to stop it’ ()
3 industry orgs suing HHS, FDA over Canadian drug imports ()
CDC floats guidance on COVID vaccine distribution ()
AI helps diagnose Parkinson’s on eye images capturable by smartphone ()
Opinion: For healthcare AI to be all that it can be, ‘the user’s needs must come first’ ()
COVID crisis prompts call for more telehealth powered by AI and assisted by robots ()
5 mixed takes on the opening of Amazon Pharmacy ()
Healthcare AI startup lands $42M plus a partnership with Mayo ()
Nuance hands off 2 business units, leans hard into conversational AI ()
AMA plans to push for more telehealth ‘throughout the pandemic and beyond’ ()
Face masks give no additional COVID defense to social distancing: Danish study ()
3 ways to drive rather than react to workforce changes quickened by COVID ()
How and why to diversify healthcare AI training data ()
$500K on the table in AI vs. COVID contest ()
Medtronic builds AI spinal surgery business with 7th acquisition of 2020 ()
Nurses, surgery workers had highest COVID-positive rates when the pandemic was young ()
Surprise medical bills cost younger adults more ()
Measles coiled to do children far more harm than COVID-19 ()
2020 has seen AI emerge as essential to disease research ()
Deep learning gives stable inpatients a good night’s sleep ()
Progressive, conservative-leaning groups harmonize for telehealth ()
New COVID concern: ‘We are asking people to take a vaccine that is going to hurt’ ()
4 forces favoring, 5 working against Biden’s wish to lower Medicare eligibility age ()
Life sciences going all in with AI, with many companies spending upwards of $50M—and counting ()
Machine learning models about as trustworthy as conventional means for risk prediction ()
3 recent notable approvals of medical AI ()
In a post- or protracted COVID world, no hospital concern will loom larger than patient experience ()
3 areas newly ripe for employer-driven change in healthcare policy ()
Health execs best consider now what a ‘Bidencare’ might look like later ()
Microsoft finetuning anti-pandemic technologies in a ‘stimulating playground for algorithm development’ ()
‘Beleaguered’ residency directors urged to take care in adopting AI ()
Health execs implementing AI undaunted by COVID ()
3 takeaways from an unfinished healthcare project at Alphabet’s X ()
US patents for AI innovations skyrocketing; IBM the top corporate AI inventor ()
CMS to penalize 2,500+ hospitals this year for excessive readmissions in years past ()
Backward tracing busts COVID clusters, as Japan has found and shown ()
More than half a year into COVID crisis, PPE was still scarce at many nursing homes ()
AI with location data may fine-tune flu forecasting ()
4 key steps toward adopting AI-aided triage at scale ()
Hopes in AI running high among healthcare executives ()
Facebook still providing safe spaces for COVID misinformers ()