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This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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Mega dollars, major support forthcoming for AI R&D

AI researchers and developers across the U.S. received a powerful if overshadowed shot in the arm on New Year’s Day.

3 ‘states of consistency’ every AI program needs to succeed

Of 52 AI models analyzed by MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research over the past two years, 31 have been deployed. The rest were in pilot phases or under development.

Will CMS pay for utilization of AI software that’s similar to an established NTAP earner?

Now comes a boomlet in vendors looking to piggyback on Viz.ai’s success, according to Niall Brennan, MPP, a member of Viz.ai’s advisory board who is also the head of the Healthcare Cost Institute.

Google Cloud scores 6-year run with IDN reorienting toward tech-enabled patient experience

An integrated delivery network that covers five and a half million lives is bringing in Google Cloud to help build and maintain a patient-centric platform with advanced analytic and AI capabilities.

Zebra cleared to market 3D printing for orthopedic surgery

An Israeli healthcare AI startup has earned a seventh green light from the FDA. Its latest algorithm can reconstruct X-rays of bones into 3D printouts with no less clarity than would be produced by advanced imaging modalities.

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AWS supplying an AI-powered means for making sense of big healthcare data

Amazon Web Services is marketing the line to healthcare organizations that are awash in data but lack an efficient way to wring meaning from it.

EvoHealth Celebrates 100th Install Milestone

Company Introduces New Technology to Healthcare IT Market

Healthcare AI startup raises a fresh $226M, spends $120M to acquire another healthcare AI startup

An Ohio-based healthcare AI company focused on improving fiscal performance for payers as well as providers is buying a like-minded entity with expertise in streamlining prior-authorization processes.  

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.