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AI news & views in brief: AI as healthcare cure-all, AI-experienced med students, more
If we would just let it do its thing, AI could fix practically everything that’s wrong with U.S. healthcare.
HHS out with bold AI strategy to ‘unleash a new era of wellbeing for a healthier America’
The Department of Health and Human Services has unfurled a roadmap for aligning its approach to AI adoption in healthcare with the broad AI aspirations of President Trump.
Drug discounts for safety-net hospitals up in the air and into the courts
HHS’s 340B drug discount program is set to shift to a rebate model on New Year’s Day. But a lawsuit and temporary restraining order filed by the AHA and others may block the change from going live on time.
AI news & views in brief: State regulation ban or none, AI in healthcare advertising, more
Will there or won’t there be a federal moratorium on state-level regulation of AI? That’s only one question healthcare stakeholders are asking as 2025’s time begins running out.
AI has already transformed TAVR care—and the best is yet to come
Advanced AI technologies are starting to play a bigger role in TAVR care, helping cardiologists plan ahead, make critical decisions and predict potential complications. Looking to the future, though, it is clear this is just the beginning.

‘We share a common vision’: Private equity-backed cardiology management group partners with MedAxiom, ACC

The group's roster of 17 like-minded cardiology practices now has access to MedAxiom's practice management tools and other key resources.

Federal AI security center established, called an ‘overwhelming win’ for businesses, hospitals

The AI Security Center, AISC for short, has as its inaugural leader U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone.

How poised is your state to handle a disaster with mass pediatric casualties?

Illinois, New Jersey and Tennessee are the only states in the country to mandate emergency preparedness for pediatric patients.

Masking, social distancing ‘do not reduce and may enhance’ subjective well-being in the pandemic-wary

Regardless of effectiveness or lack thereof, pandemic-response measures like masking and social distancing give many people a sense of being better off with them than without them.

This week has seen a cluster of healthcare-related business moves valued in the billions with a B.

Newsweek ranked the 50 best heart hospitals in the world

Cardiologists to celebrate World Heart Day with CCTA webinar

The free webinar, scheduled for Sept. 29, will examine the benefits of using CCTA and FFR-CT to manage chest pain patients.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Google’s chief clinical officer: Healthcare AI ‘should happen with clinicians, not to them’

Generative AI of the “large language” kind has been an attention hog over the past 10 or 11 months. The buzz has been so loud and constant that it’s all but asking to be dismissed as hype.

Care Delivery

AI news & views in brief: AI as healthcare cure-all, AI-experienced med students, more

HHS out with bold AI strategy to ‘unleash a new era of wellbeing for a healthier America’

Drug discounts for safety-net hospitals up in the air and into the courts

AI news & views in brief: State regulation ban or none, AI in healthcare advertising, more

AI has already transformed TAVR care—and the best is yet to come