December 2020

COVID makes landfall in the land of the South Pole
Mayo Clinic shows, tells how it’s kept COVID-19 in relative check
How not to get people to exchange holiday togetherness for community safety
Sophisticated neural network simulates rational thought processes
Will CMS pay for utilization of AI software that’s similar to an established NTAP earner?
AI-aided ‘fax first responders’ make old technology new again for COVID era
Hospital price transparency closing in
Medicaid solidifies value-based drug payments
Shuttering childcare when COVID spread is locally low would do more harm than good: Study
Chest X-rays, bloodwork all algorithm needs to predict COVID severity in incoming patients
Google Cloud scores 6-year run with IDN reorienting toward tech-enabled patient experience
Concerns widespread over emergency-use COVID vaccines
National health expenditures neared $4T in 2019; spending expected to accelerate post-2020
Nursing homes facing ‘the worst financial crisis in the history of the industry’
‘Deep aging clocks’ show why you’re only as old as you feel
Canadian radiation oncology ripe for AI education
Neural network replicates damaged brain for benefit of neuro patients, AI developers
Healthcare workers do the courageous thing by going first for a COVID shot
EHR review sheds light on planned, actual durations of doctor visits
AHA, AMA, ANA to healthcare workers: ‘We urge you to get the COVID-19 vaccine’
AI-based COVID screening tools prove useful in emergency, admitting departments
EU trying to anticipate, head off threats AI may pose to human rights
Is there honor among thieves who would hold hospitals hostage if not for COVID?
3 online COVID trackers to bookmark now and check whenever
AI research center opens at Canadian medical school
Zebra cleared to market 3D printing for orthopedic surgery
AWS supplying an AI-powered means for making sense of big healthcare data
EvoHealth Celebrates 100th Install Milestone
Students surging toward medical schools: ‘If there’s another pandemic, it’ll be up to us’
How COVID misinformation goes viral—and how to beat it at its own game
Patients dissatisfied with providers’ digital prowess voting with their (actual or virtual) feet
5 notable AI advances presented at RSNA 2020
Healthcare AI startup raises a fresh $226M, spends $120M to acquire another healthcare AI startup
Mental illnesses diagnosable by AI focused on Facebook
Traveling nurses, ‘rationing’ ICU doctors tell the current COVID story in words and actions
ACOs to Congress: Please don’t move the bar on MACRA thresholds
Pleased patients just what the doctor ordered for hospitals fiscally stricken by COVID
AI-based mammography tool earns FDA nod
Laboratory AI achieves ‘excellent to outstanding’ COVID rule-out accuracy
AI personalizes hospital selection for elective surgery patients
Who will get vaccinated first? Azar sees CDC advising but governors deciding