January 2021

Routine chest imaging all AI needs to spot impending heart maladies ()
AI poised to ‘speed up the overall revenue cycle’ for hospitals set back fiscally by COVID ()
HHS reveals overarching ‘AI ambition,’ lays out strategy for pursuing it ()
10 notable FDA approvals of AI* in medical devices over the past 90 days ()
Pausing elective operations cost hospitals $22B in 2020 ()
Telehealth, AI will drive healthcare delivery revolution through 2030 ()
Biden to undo Trump-era healthcare policies ()
Largest nurses’ union launches collective action to ‘demand our corporate hospital employers put patients before profits during COVID and beyond’ ()
Americans much more wary than South Koreans about sharing whereabouts to help counter COVID ()
AI recognizes cognitive decline in headshots ()
Telemedicine gaining fans in dermatology ()
COVID crisis kept parents away from pediatric ERs early on, may still be doing so ()
Going by online browsing patterns, telehealth will remain a force after COVID ()
AI learns COVID’s language to predict its next move ()
Skin cancer AI not quite ready for clinical primetime ()
More evidence hospitals grudgingly complying on price transparency for ‘shoppable services’ ()
Large health system paying record $7.75M for carelessness with pain pills ()
Burnout in healthcare workers quantifiable, reduceable ()
NIH-led COVID research effort taps AI startup schooled in synthetic health data ()
FDA going soft on AI reviews? ()
People with diabetes open to remote digital monitoring; more concerned about intrusiveness than AI per se ()
NYC hospitals dragging feet on price transparency ()
COVID-19 hospitalizing more children, raising new worries about resources ()
Frontline healthcare workers maintaining mental resilience during COVID crisis ()
One of AI’s leading lights discovers the indispensability of humility ()
AI-enabled EHRs could help head off severe asthma attacks ()
FDA clears AI software for reading portable MRI brain scans ()
HHS goes live with online locator of COVID-countering therapeutic drugs ()
Dr. Makary to U.S. hospital leadership: ‘Let’s stop arguing and be pragmatic’ about COVID immunization ()
College campuses both COVID superspreaders and COVID busters ()
Only 1 healthcare-specific AI startup makes a Forbes top 25 ()
Predicting psychiatric readmission proves ‘hard for humans, hard for machines’ ()
FDA refines its approach to AI-based software ()
Hospital M&A experts: COVID-19 ‘will be a catalyst in reshaping U.S. healthcare for years to come’ ()
10 things U.S. healthcare should do ASAP for COVID patients, families and caregivers ()
Unknowingly infected individuals may be spreading COVID as widely as those who’ve tested positive ()
Mega dollars, major support forthcoming for AI R&D ()
Cardiological AI gets 510(k) nod ()
3 reasons humans are irreplaceable by colonoscopy AI ()
3 ‘states of consistency’ every AI program needs to succeed ()
Dr. Makary: ‘Just because you can get the vaccine doesn’t mean you should’ ()
More than 30% of 5K surveyed intend to forego COVID vaccination ()
Eye AI performs unexceptionally in clinical settings ()
$13B deal unites UnitedHealth with Change Healthcare ()
AI enables faster, smarter inoculations at COVID drive-throughs ()
Mandating flu shot availability for healthcare workers saves patient lives ()
Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway pulling the plug on Haven ()
Online bullying of physicians common across the board, but women docs face much more sexual harassment ()