Another quick field check has found the federal rule requiring hospitals to show their prices for shoppable services meeting with only spotty compliance since it went into effect Jan. 1.

Fifteen-hospital McLaren Health Care has agreed to pay $7.75 million for illegally distributing prescription painkillers. 

Alex Oshmyansky, MD, PhD, who works weekends as a staff radiologist, first founded the Dallas-based startup in 2018.

Primary care practices battling burnout would do well to build capacity for adapting to change—taking charge of volatility rather than reacting to it—especially in times of widespread crisis.

Radiologists had previously sought clarity around the practice of waiting to release rad reports via patient portals.

Radiology organizations such as RSNA and Johns Hopkins have had success using the platform, but the specialty can do much more to advance imaging education, experts explained in Academic Radiology.

The NIH, FDA and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are working with a San Francisco startup whose calling card is an AI-enabled engine that renders patient data unidentifiable by reproducing it in synthetic versions.

Based in Andover, Massachusetts, the company helps hospitals and other healthcare organizations connect devices and EHRs through its vendor-neutral system. 

Last Tuesday the FDA posted an action plan telling how it will evaluate AI for medical applications going forward. Three days later the agency officially proposed letting numerous products through without review. 

Patients who received a more intense course of evaluation tallied $20,132 more in expenditures, but saw no difference in late-stage cancer diagnoses, experts wrote in JAMA.