CEOs with the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association underscored the pandemic’s outsized impact on people of color in a letter to lawmakers sent Friday. 

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists criticized the new policy for failing to include its members along with radiation therapists. 

Also, Insightec earns Medicare coverage for MR-guided treatment, a new AI tool to assist with COVID imaging, and Xact Robotics earns FDA clearance to market new product. 

Elizabeth Rula, PhD, will replace Executive Director Danny Hughes, PhD, who has led the institute since its inception in 2012. 

One billion of the total will go toward specialty rural hospitals, urban hospitals with certain rural Medicare designations and providers in small metropolitan areas, the administration announced recently.

Draft legislation recently passed by a House subcommittee ensures the recommendations would be pushed back until 2025.

Leaders of the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians and American College of Physicians all cautioned against the president's plan.

The system, known as Aspects, is the first neuroimaging solution in the FDA’s computer-assisted diagnostic software category to receive this designation.