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This channel newsfeed includes clinical content on treating patients or the clinical implications in a variety of cardiac subspecialties and disease states. The channel includes news on cardiac surgery, interventional cardiology, heart failure, electrophysiology, hypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

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$500K on the table in AI vs. COVID contest

Nonprofit competition organizer XPrize is partnering with global tech consultancy Cognizant to award AI innovators in a pandemic response challenge.

Nurses, surgery workers had highest COVID-positive rates when the pandemic was young

Healthcare workers were infected with COVID-19 in greater percentages than the general population, and nurses were hardest hit of all, during the early days of the pandemic. 

New COVID concern: ‘We are asking people to take a vaccine that is going to hurt’

Will the public be braced enough for the expected side effects of shot No. 1 that they’ll follow through with the essential second round?

In a post- or protracted COVID world, no hospital concern will loom larger than patient experience

Improving the patient experience will top the list of hospitals’ strategies for winning and retaining patients in 2021. Not far behind will be facilitating access to care.

Health execs implementing AI undaunted by COVID

Almost half the 540-participant cohort is already using at least one form of AI.

Backward tracing busts COVID clusters, as Japan has found and shown

Japan must be doing something in its war on COVID that Western Europe and the United States aren’t doing in their respective homelands.

More than half a year into COVID crisis, PPE was still scarce at many nursing homes

An analysis of data submitted to CMS by around 15,000 U.S. nursing homes has found 226,500 residents were at heightened risk for contracting COVID-19 in August.

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Facebook still providing safe spaces for COVID misinformers

Someone somewhere introduced the theory that a COVID-19 vaccine will alter the DNA of anyone unwise enough to receive it. Did that person know this to be a crock and put it out there just for the fun of it?

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AI in Healthcare
Healthcare AI regulation needs nuance, balance: Research review

When regulating AI-equipped medical devices, the FDA might take a page from the Department of Transportation’s playbook for overseeing AI-equipped vehicles. These run the gamut from assisting human drivers to fully taking the wheel. 

Radiology Business
Pending radiology bills in Congress and predicting the Trump administration's impact on imaging

Kit Crancer, RBMA board member, speaks with Radiology Business about key legislative developments on the Hill that will affect the specialty. 

Cardiovascular Business
Medical device company cuts 70% of staff in push to meet Medtronic obligations

California-based Acutus Medical has said its ongoing agreement to manufacture and distribute left-heart access devices for Medtronic is the company's only source of revenue.