“Physicians everywhere—across every state and specialty—continue to carry tremendous burdens that have us frustrated, burned out, abandoning hope," said AMA President Jesse Ehrenfeld. 

Specialists with Providence Health System developed a new artificial intelligence algorithm to help make staffing schedules more flexible and predict patient volumes.

The agency indicated that, in order for such drugs to be covered, patients with Medicare Part B must be enrolled in registries that collect real-world data on the treatment’s effectiveness. 

Malpractice premiums appear to play a significant role in the rankings. Even states with ample job opportunities and low-to-moderate cost of living were ranked poorly due to their high malpractice premiums.

Overall, 31.2% of U.S. physicians say they have been sued. When looking at only cardiologists, the percentage is slightly higher.

New data published in the American Journal of Roentgenology details the performance of a deep learning model known as BERT, short for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers.

The group hopes its members can increase congressional support of a new bill introduced in the House. 

Radiology makes up the vast majority of FDA-cleared AI algorithms, but with minimal or no reimbursement, hospital administrators may ask whether AI’s value justifies its expense.