August 2021

Hospital-acquired bedsores avoidable with AI
AI enables much faster pathology for life-or-death interventions
COVID-19 vaccines have buoyed healthcare profits
Healthcare orgs given extra time to comply with price transparency
Doctors the only healthcare workers seeing healthy long-term wage growth, although women have made some overall gains on men
Nurse union says hospitals are ‘crying false tears’ over understaffing; hospitals reply ‘Are you kidding?’
Notable regulatory approvals of emerging technologies over the past 30 days
Steps taken toward smartphone app for automatically detecting Parkinson’s
Pediatric patients engaged in VR much less troubled by pain
Pediatric sepsis increasingly screenable by AI
$4.1B savings for Medicare thanks to shared savings program
AI charts course of care for chronic kidney disease
5 ways AI stands to advance the state of burn care
Hefty price tag for unvaccinated COVID hospitalizations
Fewer health plans waiving cost sharing for COVID treatment
COVID hospitalization much more likely for the unvaccinated in nation’s second largest metropolis
Google Health is no more?
Hospitals, payers slippery when ‘transparent’
AI innovators lauded for sharing data, questioned for making it open-access
Treatable tumor models grown in the lab
Pandemic pushing ophthalmology into the arms of AI-aided telehealth
10 questions clinicians—and patients—ought to ask about every AI they encounter
Physician compensation rose as productivity fell in 2020
COVID booster shots will become available in September
AI nudges clinicians at triage decisionmaking
3 noteworthy developments in emerging medical technologies
DC healthcare workers must get vaccinated against COVID-19
Babies and toddlers are big spreaders of COVID-19 at home
Negative healthcare experiences are common
HIMSS speakers see standards, possibly ‘nutrition labels’ in healthcare AI’s future
Legal battle brewing over AI’s potential status as a ‘nonhuman inventor’
Machine learning helps explain, quantify differences between men’s and women’s soccer
Google Health, military collaborators set AI’s sights on breast cancer biomarkers
Deep learning picks out sickened faces with 100% sensitivity
Healthcare AI may rise or fall on mitigation of opaque algorithms, semantic black boxes
More than 2.5M gained health coverage during special open enrollment
CDC: COVID-19 vaccine safe for pregnant people
AI finds ‘diamonds in the rough’ among rejected residency applicants
CVS stops administering J&J vaccine at pharmacies
Homecare acquisition creates $2B business
Consumer acceptance of medical AI coming into focus
How and when FDA assesses the clinical competency of healthcare AI
Vaccine uncertainty discourages vaccine uptake—but disease uncertainty drives mixed behaviors
USA the priciest place in the West for getting older with ailments
‘Valtruis’ aims to earn big returns on $300M investment in value-based care
AI saves pediatricians time, provides ‘more actionable guidance’ for asthma care
Envisioning a world of big, AI-ready—and free—healthcare data, a top medical school leads by example
Best and worst states for healthcare
Delta variant squeezes hospital margins
US achieves 70% vaccination rate
Patients draw pictures, AI classifies dementia
Kidney stones relatively easy marks for AI-guided shockwaves