The creators of CMS’s Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating ratings system—aka “Hospital Compare”—intended to present healthcare consumers with an easy, user-friendly way to choose a hospital. However, since the ratings went live in 2016, the system has proven both confusing to consumers and confounding to hospitals.

The FDA announced Tuesday, April 3, that it is working on a new framework to regulate AI-based medical devices that continually learn from healthcare data.

The former president of Detroit Medical Center Heart Hospital has sued DMC, its parent company Tenet Healthcare and three executives for allegedly retaliating against him after he raised concerns over the quality of care at the hospital, Crain’s Detroit Business reported.

The FDA has announced that it is working toward developing a new regulatory framework for medical devices that use advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.

New legislation has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would allow radiologists to submit Medicare claims for imaging services performed by radiologist assistants (RAs) in hospitals and non-imaging services performed in the hospital or an office setting.

Compared to warfarin, all direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) were associated with fewer cardiovascular events including heart attacks and strokes in a study of Medicare patients with both nonvalvular atrial fibrillation and heart failure. But apixaban appeared to offer the best balance of protecting against these events while minimizing bleeding risk.

Eye exams that leverage machine learning to track eye movement behavior are providing universities, research institutions and governmental agencies with more than a billion data points to better understand the connection between vision and neurological disease, according to health tech company RightEye.

Amyloid PET imaging greatly influenced the clinical management of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, according to the first phase of a multicenter trial published April 2 in JAMA.

Not-for-profit network Sutter Health and AI company Suki are partnering to deliver an AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant for doctors in Northern California.

Fourteen startups are getting a share of $117 million from Intel Capital, which is encouraging the recipients to spend the money on efforts to “disrupt their industries.” For two of the companies, the industry is healthcare and the disruptive innovation involves AI.