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 ()