October 2021

Top AI, emerging-tech stories in radiology and cardiology over the past 30 days
FDA authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11
AI predicts gathering disease with a deep dive into evolutionary genetics
10 principles that 3 regulators deem essential for healthcare AI development
Notable regulatory approvals of emerging technologies over the past 30 days
Opioid overdoses more readily preventable with ensemble learning
UnitedHealthcare sues hospital staffing firm TeamHealth, alleging $100M in fraudulent claims
Emergency department spending in the US grew 4.4% to $136B, outpacing healthcare overall
DOJ alleges Kaiser Permanente defrauded Medicare of $1 billion
AI exposes tactics, routes taken by antibiotic-resistant infections
Small cash incentives kept vaccination rates from nosediving, pilot study shows
What limits AI as it continues ‘significantly altering the fundamental means of biological discovery?’
Meet the ‘most loved’ healthcare companies
Mark Cuban jumps into the PBM space
Federal security officials warn that ‘Made in China’ could one day go for tech-dependent US healthcare
AI scores 1 against a knee injury common among athletes
Google gains a sure foothold for building its healthcare AI résumé
Barrett’s esophagus on AI’s radar
Top 11 in-demand healthcare jobs
Walmart partners with Transcarent for care solution
2-year chatbot mission unites scores of co-developers, yields ‘trustworthy and friendly Rosa’
AI has far to go before solving deafness, but along the way are opportunities to ‘reshape hearing healthcare’
Americans wary of face recognition technology in healthcare
Walgreens launches new business, invests in VillageMD
CMS increases call center wages to $15 per hour
To pull off instant claims processing, Big Blue payer taps Big Tech player
Dangled dollars did next to nothing for COVID vax campaigns
Another itemized set of actions Washington could take to better regulate medical AI
AI predicts tumor metastasis from colon to lymph nodes
FDA hopes new guidance will prove ‘one of the most significant public health nutrition interventions in a generation’
More than half of COVID survivors struggle to shake off direct, indirect symptoms
Voice of herd immunity pipes up after hiding in plain sight
Primary care’s plea: ‘Wake up to the fact that [we] are key to getting us [all] out of this prolonged pandemic’
Major academic health system reveals plans for dedicated AI department
Mobile self-test can serve as early-warning system for Alzheimer’s
5 ways US regulators could go further to beat back bias in medical AI
Physicians’ behaviors are nearly all AI needs to head off faulty drug prescriptions
AI helps uncover, illustrate the inner workings of cells
Telemedicine has improved access to healthcare
Bigger healthcare mergers are on the horizon
AI finds forgotten surgical instruments in patients’ bodies
AI-generated ‘digital twins’ help head off silently approaching sickness
COVID-19 smartphone diagnostics so close yet so far
AI right at home in cancer research, but associated clinical improvements slow to show
COVID’s ‘mysterious 2-month cycle’ may point to its own end
Ultraviolet light form emerges as a sure yet safe COVID slayer
Algorithmic app could head off suicides of high-risk adolescents
3 steps toward setting and sustaining standards for medical AI