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 ()